• Solutions
• Price Director
• Inventory Manager
• Business Advisor
• Services
• Technical Architecture

Provisioning Inventory, Minimizing Risk

Business Advisor helps companies who are wrestling with supply investment challenges such as: forecast error, stockouts of key production inputs, costly obsolescence and lack of financial transparency. Across the organization, Business Advisor:

With Business Advisor we make $30 million more per quarter in incremental revenue while spending $15 million less on supply. That is what I call spend
efficiency.

Kevin Carroll
Vice President
Supply Management,
Sun Microsystems

• Reduces opportunity cost of underutilized assets
• Minimizes inventory, supply and profitability risks
• Manages demand uncertainty to limit financial exposure
• Provisions inventory ahead of delivery
• Improves asset utilization and demand forecast

Rapt Business Advisor directs supply investment towards more profitable revenue and creates real-time transparency through integration to actual operating data. The result is financial plans that are accurate, relevant and include financial implications of supply decisions. Business Advisor delivers profit improvements through revenue-focused supply investment decisions that are market-driven, profit-optimal, supply-feasible and real-time responsive.

Business Advisor brings intelligence to decision making under uncertainty empowering executives, finance and supply managers and inventory analysts to direct and prioritize supply investment toward profitable revenue.

Case Studies

Managing Supply Investments and Improving Profits

For a leading manufacturer of high-end desktops, servers, storage and other hardware products, supply investment was a critical concern and key driver of financial results...

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