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balances based on demand.
The control tower is routinely
used to simulate the impact of a
major sales event on production.
“Our sales engineers want to be able
within a half day to come back to a
customer and say whether we can
support them and get the product
in a four-week shipment time,” Tan
explains.
Whenever a major customer deal
is in the offing, the control tower
helps Agilent to determine an accu-
rate commitment date for product
delivery. It does so by simulating the
parts requirements. The simulation
it could take three to four weeks to get an
answer from all the parties involved.
SIMULATION SAVES THE DAY
To solve this problem, Agilent decided
to construct a control tower that would
give the instrument maker visibility into
inventory holdings down to the supplier level in as many nodes in its supply
chain as possible. For this vertical supply chain integration project, it bought
RapidResponse software from Kinaxis, a
vendor of enterprise supply chain software
solutions. Besides facilitating supply chain
visibility, the software handles demand,
supply, and inventory planning as well as
what-if analyses, among other functions.
In 2011, Agilent got the control tower
up and running with three contract manufacturers and two of its own technology centers. Since that time, the control tower’s scope has expanded in stages.
Currently, it extends to five contract manufacturers and five Agilent-owned sites.
Three of the contract manufacturers are
in Malaysia, one is in Thailand, and one
is in California. Agilent’s own facilities
linked to the tower include its plants in
Penang and in Santa Clara. The tower is
also linked to technology centers located
in California and Colorado in the United
States, as well as one in Germany.
Staff members who oversee the control
tower’s operation work out of Agilent’s
main facility in Penang. There are two
teams involved: one conducts the analysis,
while the other manages data governance
to ensure that all linked locations provide
correct, high-quality information.
The suppliers transmit information to
the tower on a daily basis. As of this
writing, the control tower has visibility
of more than 94 percent of all parts used
in the EMG supply chain. The tower uses
this information to create a complete picture of Agilent’s supply chain, which the
company employs to manage both daily
operations and crisis situations. The information is displayed on computer screens
formatted in customized worksheets that
show purchase orders, plan, and supply
allocation. Tan says the customized worksheets allow Agilent to monitor part-by-part shortages throughout different levels
of the supply chain via weekly projected
