A cost-to-serve analysis creates a solid understanding on where and how costs are incurred through an organization. It is about modeling costs that are different for each customer and product, and ensuring they are allocated fairly. The CTS analysis solution market’s most common use cases are: - More informed product portfolio management - Costing decisions and supply network design - Gain sharing between suppliers and customers - Identification and allocation of costs to suppliers and customers - Improved process and resource efficiency
Gartner defines supply chain planning (SCP) solutions as platforms that provide technological support to enable a company to manage, link, align, collaborate and share its planning data across an extended supply chain. An SCP solution supports planning, ranging from demand planning through detailed supply-side response planning and from strategic planning through execution-level planning. It is the planning decision repository for a defined end-to-end supply chain. It is also the environment in which end-to-end-integrated supply chain decisions are managed. It establishes a single version of the truth for planning data and decisions, regardless of the underlying execution technology environment. Organizations use SCP solutions to improve their supply chain planning decisions and reach higher levels of maturity.