WAM delivers advanced supply chain planning functionality to the global process industry. WAM's supply chain planning solution provides a broad set of visualization, decision support, and optimization tools that address the unique challenges found in managing complex supply chains.
Since 1987, WAM has built an impressive track record of helping companies across a wide variety of process manufacturing markets including chemicals, polymers, oil and gas refining and pharmaceuticals.
From its Philadelphia headquarters, WAM oversees a network of global satellite offices in Houston, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Wiesbaden, Sao Paulo, and Singapore.
In addition, WAM maintains strategic alliances with firms that specialize in providing advanced control and optimization solutions targeted to process manufacturers. WAM and its partners maintain a global support network of consultants capable of implementing and maintaining solutions anywhere in the world.
The WAM Supply Chain Planning Solution is a comprehensive suite of decision support and optimization applications that helps optimize every aspect of your supply chain--from acquisition of raw materials to maximizing customer relationships in a single software solution integrated with your existing corporate systems.
Our fully-integrated suite of planning and optimization modules has been proven to yield significant cost reductions while increasing profitability, productivity and customer service.
Developed through a partnership with leading process companies around the world, the WAM Solution supports a broad set of supply chain business functions including:
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Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
Substantially reduce the friction caused by manufacturing and sales conflicting goals by embarking on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process. Done right, you can ensure that your supply and demand plans are balanced and synchronized, and that your inventory and financial goals are addressed.
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Sourcing
Sourcing is an ongoing process of interdependent steps that work together to enhance performance and results. A demand-driven supply network senses demand and reacts to it in real time. The financial results can be dramatic.
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Customer Service
Plan an appropriate response to demand so your company meets customer needs while producing and distributing materials profitably. Improve your customer service to allow real-time inventory synchronization and analytic support for intelligent order-taking.
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Demand Planning / Forecasting
A stellar demand plan stands as the basis for your company's production, inventory and, ultimately, overall supply chain costs. So, accurate prediction and timely fulfillment of demand are essential to success.
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Distribution
Exceptional service depends on having the right inventory in the right place at the right time.
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Financial Analysis
Proactively identify the realities that may cause you to deviate from your strategic and tactical plans, and understand the financial impact of your alternative actions monitor and communicate your progress toward meeting your financial goals.
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Global Visibility
Proactively identify the realities that may cause you to deviate from your strategic and tactical plans, and understand the financial impact of your alternative actions monitor and communicate your progress toward meeting your financial goals.
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KPIs for Executive Review
Accurate, up-to-date information via dashboard summaries for your C-level executives that includes forward-facing predictive analytics, telling them where the supply chain is headed.
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Production Scheduling
For this, part of the most metric-intensive portion of the supply chain, the WAM solution for supply chain production planning and scheduling uses advanced analytical techniques to map your demand forecast across the supply chain.
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Performance Management / Analytics
Improve your supply chain by focusing on actionable, operational process metrics that impact supply chain performance.
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Scenario Planning
As a supply chain professional advanced planning goals should include minimizing the financial impact, preserving customer relations, business operations and maintaining optimal supply chain operations.
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Working Capital
Supply chain managers are delivering working capital improvements through reduced raw material investments and inventory management.
The WAM Solution is used throughout the world to power the supply chains of many of the leading industrial producers including:
Americas Styrenics, Arkema, Celanese, Ergon, FMC, Graham Packaging Company, Honam Petrochemicals, Indian Oil, Ineos Styrenics, Kraton,
Lion Oil, Lonza, LyondellBasell, Orion Engineered Carbons, Oxea GmbH, Petro Rabigh, PetroChina, PTT Chemical, Sasol Oil, Saudi Aramco and Solvay.
