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Core Solutions
Assessment - Identify & Quantify Improvements
SCEx - Supply Chain Execution, i2 Technology
Mid-Market - Solutions to Power any Comapany
Enterprise ERP - SAP Experience & Leadership
RFID - Active Locating/Tracking Solutions
Custom Solutions - Your Vision Executed

eChain Services
Executive Staffing C-Level Change Leadership
Engagement Management Manage and Deliver
Sol'n Architect Innovative Solutions Delivered
Implementation Alignment with Business Needs
Development Iterative, Rapid and Affordable
Consulting Professional, Methodical, Experienced

Need a Professional Alternative for your i2 Technologies Solutions Consulting and Implementation Needs?

The economic climate is having a great affect on companies undertaking work and projects that ironically would save them money. It is time to review your supply-chain capabilities and either fine-tune or invest in best of breed solutions that will remove all excess cost from your operations in order to survive.

eChain Technology staffs some of the world's best experts in supply-chain solution selection, capabilities assessment, implementation and integration of these solutions into your extended enterprise. We have a particular niche focus on the i2 Technologies core supply-chain solutions with many success stories.

Selection, Design, Prototyping and Bluepriniting: As part of your selection and design process, we provide independent expertise and leadership that crosses solution boundaries to drive a total enterprise solution design

Performance and Capabilities Assessment and Tuning: Our consultants have deep solution and business skills necessary to fine-tune your i2 applications to the current economic conditions. Get the most out of your current solution investment by tuning your forecasting algorithms, transportation management optimization strategies, supply-chain network, integrations, and your business processes

Project Staffing: eChain provides you with an alternative source for your i2 implementation project staffing needs. We have very experienced and entrepreneurial solution consultants, we are competitively priced, typically more experienced, and are focused on delivering a complete solution to your company

Total Solution Focus: eChain 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

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

eChain Solutions

eChain Operational Assessment quickly identifies your performance pain points, intense analysis to determine root cause and quantifies opportunity for improvement

Supply-Chain Execution (SCEx) Services return millions of dollars to your company's bottom line through innovative supply chain improvements: best in class solution selection, implementation, and business process improvement. We specialize in i2 Technology solutions

Mid-Market Solutions on-demand and professional customization, development and implementation support for Dynamics AX ERP and SharePoint for rapid intranet solutions and customized integrated and distributed applications development

Enterprise ERP Quickly deployed teams meet your SAP ERP engagement needs from blueprinting through delivery. Our seasoned Engagement Managers will manage your local and offshore resources to efficiently meet your expectations and budget. We specialize in SAP R/3 Supply-Chain and seamless 3rd party solution integrations

Active RFID and Locating Technology leadership and execution services provide unique leadership in RFID Supply Chain, ERP and Enterprise integration to fully leverage the potential of these emerging technologies

Custom Solution Development of your vision delivered in the optimal technology to ensure rapid and cost-effective time to market. eChain specializes in analytical integrated solution development in multiple technologies

Competitive Advantage - Why eChain?

Recognized Leadership: documented and cross-functional

Unmatched Value: superior staffing, lean teams, relentless results driven execution to aggressive project plans

Best of Breed Solutions: broad experience in selection, implementation, integrating best of breed solutions

Customized Development: analytical solutions, SOA messaging and middleware, integration, business intelligence

ROI Focused: Laser focus on your fastest path to profitability

Team Based Approach: coordinated, complimentary and collaborative focus on execution

Engagement Management: take control and coordinate all resources on all projects to synchronize and align activities to minimize cost and mitigate risk

Turnkey Ownership: passionate and motivated, we are confident in our ability to plan and deliver and guarantee engagement success

Business Assessment, Solution Design: with expert understanding of business and technology, we are your business liaison to communicate and coordinate development and delivery to your specific business needs
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