Independent Vision, Guidance and Leadership for New Systems Development and i2 Package Implementation

eChain Technology and associates have a long and successful track record recommending, guiding and implementing i2 Technologies applications going back to the first i2 implementation of Factory Planner at Northrop in the late 1980's. Since then, our members have led or participated in many of i2 Technology's most successful engagements

eChain Technology provides comprehensive supply chain solution experience and leadership in global enterprise supply chain engagements. Our services include review, recommendation, design, implementation, integration, customization and training. While we have a particular core competency with i2 applications, we maintain an independent solution-agnostic approach unconstrained to one technology or application. This allows us to seamlessly integrate into your i2 project team and bring a "Total Solution Focus" to your engagement, ensuring that you are not implementing an application, but an integrated solution that leverages every capability of your extended enterprise.

• Unbiased i2 Solution Review and Selection support from our business and solution subject matter experts (SME's)
• Augment and Lead your i2 implementation with our independent business and solution experts who provide engagement management, solution design and architecture, blueprinting, prototyping, configuration, testing support, etc.
• Review and Improve your existing i2 solution models to improve stocking algorithms, forecast models, transportation network models, optimization parameters, etc., with our on-demand i2 team. We will show you how to get the most from your existing i2 applications
• i2 Project Staffing alternative with eChain team of very experienced and entrepreneurial solutions consultants. We are competitively priced, typically more experienced, and are focused on delivering a complete solution to your company
• Total Solution Focus provides broader exposure and expertise to design and implement a total solution around your i2 application including Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), SAP IDoc integration, EDI integration, dashboard development for managing your integrations and transformations, RFID integration to i2, S&OP and other Business Intelligence (BI) metrics reporting and data visibility structures
• Rich Project Experience with other successful engagements and other best practice approaches you can tap to bypass the quicksand and landmines of a typical i2 implementation

eChain Technology provides experienced support for the core i2 Solutions:

• i2 Transportation Management - i2 Transportation Manager (TM), Transportation Optimizer, (TO), Supply-Chain Strategist (SCS), Transportation Modeler (TMod), Load Configurator. i2 creates value by synchronizing critical transportation and distribution business processes, resulting in optimal cost and service performance. Companies can minimize IT complexity and, through more accurate data, enhance collaboration with supply chain partners
• i2 Supply-Chain Management (SCM) - i2 Supply Chain Planner (SCP), Factory Planner (FP), Demand Fulfillment (DF), Demand Planner (DP). i2 Total Supply Management's comprehensive set of industry-leading software and services delivers a closed-loop process designed for excellence in four key areas of supply management. To address global sourcing and distributed enterprise operation, capabilities are provided for total, repeatable visibility across sites. Companies achieve insight into category-to-part number, time, material, and direct and outsourced vendor spend, as well as related supply key performance indicators, such as delivery/quality. This visibility enables the evaluation of critical breakdown and landed-cost elements, as well as non-cost factors, including readiness for vendor-managed inventory and the qualitative value-added contributions of suppliers
• i2 Demand Management - i2 Demand Planner (DP), Demand Manager (DM). i2 Demand Planner, part of the i2 Supply Chain Management solution, delivers a powerful planning and forecasting tool-enabling enterprises to understand, anticipate and manage customer demand across their value chain. It optimizes collaboration, collection and rationalization of multiple forecasting inputs through a web-based userfriendly interface combined with industry-leading statistical techniques and unlimited causal factors. Multidimensional data representation supports demand-planning analysis. With i2 Demand Planner, companies can accurately model their business and increase timely internal and external communication with value chain partners - speeding time-to-market and increasing customer satisfaction
• i2 Middleware/Dashboard/Reporting - i2 Master Data Management (MDM), i2 Studio/ABPP, i2 Intelligence (i2i) eChain leverages our history of enterprise solution integrations, service-oriented architecture (SOA), custom dashboard development and our Microsoft Partnership to provide a solid i2 offering supporting the latest integration and reporting i2 applications