Abstract

This IDC Manufacturing Insights report uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of a number of providers participating in the worldwide supply chain inventory optimization market. The IDC MarketScape is an evaluation based on a comprehensive framework and a set of parameters that assesses providers relative to one another and to those factors expected to be most conducive to success in a given market during both the short term and the long term.

"Supply chain planning has become both central and critical to the success of the thinking, digitally enabled supply chain, and inventory optimization specifically is a key component of supply chain planning overall. Growing complexity in the supply chain has made inventory planning more challenging, both as a consequence of often larger demand forecast error and a lack of full visibility into supply issues and constraints. IDC would view a competent IO application as important to the success of the broader supply chain," says Simon Ellis, global VP for IDC Manufacturing Insights' Supply Chain Strategies Practice.

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