RapidResponse

Vorteile

Single Solution - RapidResponse is a single product that supports a complete end to end process and is fully integrated. There is no need for batch schedules to run to sync data between the capabilities of the solution. The S&OP, demand planning, supply planning, capacity planning, inventory optimization, collaboration, allocations, and what-if scenario planning are all within a single data model with a single user interface.
Rapid Scenarios - Within RapidResponse, any user can run a scenario in seconds. RapidResponse has a unique capability where the demand and supply balancing engine is always on and it runs in memory. This empowers users to be able to take a virtual copy of the entire database in a second, change any type of demand, supply, lead time, on hand, costs, etc. and run a the new plan within seconds.
Embedded Analytics - RapidResponse natively has dashboards that are drillable and are based in memory on the live database - there is no need to push data out to a data warehouse for analytics.
Flexible Exceptions - RapidResponse allows you to build your own exceptions and alerts to help with planner productivity. You aren't limited to the native exceptions within the planning tool - any sort of exception that you can define a rule can be easily deployed and users can be alerted via dashboards and alerts to their emails when the exceptions occur.
Integrated Financials & KPI Scorecards - Many planning tools can help planners answer the question whether they can support a plan, however, RapidResponse helps planners take that a step further and answer the question of which strategy should you plan to based on your KPIs important to your business. These KPIs can be financial based such as revenue, margin and costs or they could be numerical based such as fill rates, on time delivery to request percentage, or key constraint utilization.

Vorteile

It is a very user Friendly
Easy to navigate since it looks exactly like working in excel sheet
Long term Visibility of demand and supply.
We can easily do the What if analysis in case of increase or decrease in demand and plan the materials based on that.
Very Helpful in Excess and inventory management.
From the Software perspective
The coding is less complicated and easy to understand.
We can easily implement modern supply chain functionalities.
Scorecards and dashboards are an added advantage which helps the management in decision making.

Nachteile

Sometimes I feel like I don't have all the training materials to keep me up to date with all the functionalities that kinaxis offers to the customers
Due to this most of the time we say no to the customers although there is a way to implement the requested functionality in Rapid Response.
Please make the training materials more accessible so that the developers can implement the requested solutions.
Also, we feel the training cost is a little high for small companies to afford.

From the software perspective
Sometimes when we use the heavy tables in the workbooks it will take more time to load.It will be good if the tool performs a little faster.
Also please make sure to keep adding updates to the mobile application and also take steps to create awareness to promote the mobile application.

Vorteile

If your business focuses on a lot of different reports then this is the software to purchase. It has several spreadsheet based dashboards which can segregate your inventory and supply chain management. It can help you plan your future buying according to the forecast rules you set.

Nachteile

Although it looks like an Excel spreadsheet, however, it will not give you the functionalities that Excel can so do not use Excel commands on it as most of them might not work. It is not easy to find the correct training material for the task on hand. Not easily integrated with other interfaces. A lot of manual work is required compared to other software for the same purpose in the market.

Vorteile

Rapid Response provides users the ability to simulate different business scenarios, test a thought out solution, collaborate and perform necessary data changes to the system in real time. Also to anticipate market demand, positioning enterprise resources to meet demand and fulfilling demand as it is realized.
As it is cloud based, we can access it anywhere, anytime. No need to install the app in a different machine for the first time use. Only Java is enough. So its really a big advantage to all.The updated Version 2016.2 makes everything simpler in compared to its old versions. Things like scheduled tasks running for a long time and scenario changes and commit, etc...takes very less to time to complete in the newer version.

Nachteile

1. Sometimes RR App becomes inaccessible and keeps throwing some warning msgs, when network issues like WiFi or LAN got disconnected and reconnect again. So, in this case, we are not able to continue our work and supposed to close the app forcefully and re login is required to open the app.
2. It is good if we have a chat window inside the app, with currently signed in users.
3. If possible can we have some new background theme or customized one.

Vorteile

Scenario Planning
Best S&OP planning tool
Supporting what if Analysis
Easy to integrating various Source of information
Cloud based Application
Strong analytical Engine
Accurate calculation
Provide Constraint based planning
Easy to develop new process
Provide ability to create Score card , Charts
Support most of Statistical forecast algorithm
In Memory database
Supports version Control
Kinaxis Support team provides high quality product supports

Nachteile

we can not access/modify all the resource using Script. so some features can not be automated fully.
to view any records in table, we need to create worksheet. so for debugging purpose it take more time. If they provide a way to retrieve records by using a query method , then it will be easy to debug the issue. Atleast they can provide this functionality to admin.