Comments on: You can’t plan your compromises http://blog.kinaxis.com/2006/06/you-cant-plan-your-compromises/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:26:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Randy Littleson http://blog.kinaxis.com/2006/06/you-cant-plan-your-compromises/#comment-11 Randy Littleson Wed, 05 Jul 2006 12:56:00 +0000 http://127.0.0.1:88/2006/06/you-cant-plan-your-compromises/#comment-11 Chris - You clearly have achieved an impressive rapid’ understanding of Response Management, and roughly what RapidResponse does. RapidResponse, our Response Management solution, is leveraging a unique Theory of Constraints (TOC) implementation, and other manufacturing centric algorithms that are heuristic in nature. It also structures the details governing operations as they are defined in ERP (BOM’s, master data, WIP, inter-site relationships, flexibility terms, outsourcing, etc). Unlike DSS offerings, RapidResponse leverages the very algorithms used to govern the actions of operations to pre-determine an outcome based on a particular course correction. RapidResponse has no limit to the number of action alternatives a person can “try Chris -

You clearly have achieved an impressive rapid’ understanding of Response Management, and roughly what RapidResponse does.

RapidResponse, our Response Management solution, is leveraging a unique Theory of Constraints (TOC) implementation, and other manufacturing centric algorithms that are heuristic in nature. It also structures the details governing operations as they are defined in ERP (BOM’s, master data, WIP, inter-site relationships, flexibility terms, outsourcing, etc).

Unlike DSS offerings, RapidResponse leverages the very algorithms used to govern the actions of operations to pre-determine an outcome based on a particular course correction. RapidResponse has no limit to the number of action alternatives a person can “try

]]> By: Chris J Abraham http://blog.kinaxis.com/2006/06/you-cant-plan-your-compromises/#comment-10 Chris J Abraham Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:26:08 +0000 http://127.0.0.1:88/2006/06/you-cant-plan-your-compromises/#comment-10 Randy, Thanks for your comments at my blog - they were instructive. As I delve deeper into your blog, I believe that I will obtain a better understanding of Response Management and its attendant characteristics. In your comments, you have referred to "breakthrough" in responsiveness that can be achieved by empowering the many stakeholders involved in making course corrections due to unexpected events in the day. From my reading of Response Management (albeit a cursory one at this time), it seems to be a software backed tactical level planning, weigh the options and impacts, decision making (and probably prioritizing) system i.e. consisting of a DSS (Decision Support System) side as well as certain processes that use this DSS. This probably fills a gap that has existed with Supply Chain Planning tools (that remain at a more strategic and long term horizon level) in that they cannot really get down to the nitty gritty of operations. ERP tools have recorded information at all levels of the firm but they do little more than that. I hope that I have captured the gist of the Response Management approach. Of course, any tool that does some if not all of the above piques my interest greatly. What QRM does is something quite similar in that it also gets down into the nitty gritty of operations - however it is very much from the planning point of view. With its attendant DSS, QRM plans the structure of the manufacturing system for those very situations wherein Response Management has been highlighted above. So in a sense, they're competing ways to solve the tactical issues of daily operations at a level not addressed effectively by SCM/Simulation/ERP systems. Is there a particular field of optimization/DSS/heuristics upon which Response Management is based? For QRM, it is applied Queuing theory - Queuing Networks to be precise. I have cross posted this comment on my site. Thanks again for your comments and I look forward to reading more about Response Management. Chris Randy,
Thanks for your comments at my blog - they were instructive. As I delve deeper into your blog, I believe that I will obtain a better understanding of Response Management and its attendant characteristics.
In your comments, you have referred to “breakthrough” in responsiveness that can be achieved by empowering the many stakeholders involved in making course corrections due to unexpected events in the day. From my reading of Response Management (albeit a cursory one at this time), it seems to be a software backed tactical level planning, weigh the options and impacts, decision making (and probably prioritizing) system i.e. consisting of a DSS (Decision Support System) side as well as certain processes that use this DSS. This probably fills a gap that has existed with Supply Chain Planning tools (that remain at a more strategic and long term horizon level) in that they cannot really get down to the nitty gritty of operations. ERP tools have recorded information at all levels of the firm but they do little more than that. I hope that I have captured the gist of the Response Management approach.
Of course, any tool that does some if not all of the above piques my interest greatly.
What QRM does is something quite similar in that it also gets down into the nitty gritty of operations - however it is very much from the planning point of view. With its attendant DSS, QRM plans the structure of the manufacturing system for those very situations wherein Response Management has been highlighted above.
So in a sense, they’re competing ways to solve the tactical issues of daily operations at a level not addressed effectively by SCM/Simulation/ERP systems.

Is there a particular field of optimization/DSS/heuristics upon which Response Management is based? For QRM, it is applied Queuing theory - Queuing Networks to be precise.

I have cross posted this comment on my site.

Thanks again for your comments and I look forward to reading more about Response Management.

Chris

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