GT Nexus and Kinaxis today signed a strategic partnership to offer a cloud-based unified planning and execution platform for enterprises and business process outsourcing (BPO) service providers.
GT Nexus offers a cloud-based platform that several companies use to drive efficiency and agility across the global supply chain while Kinaxis delivers a cloud-based application at the heart of planning and response management for value chain operations.
The partnership between the two companies combine the planning and simulation ‘brains’ of the Kinaxis platform with the inter-enterprise execution network of GT Nexus.
Kinaxis provides a product that powers the underlying capabilities essential to balancing demand and supply across an enterprise. RapidResponse Control Tower offers a standard foundation on which the strategic business applications can be deployed.
GT Nexus provides real-time visibility into orders, inventory, shipments and commerce transactions from order point to final delivery and payment.
Companies and their partners can now collaborate as business networks to reduce costs and improve performance across their entire value chains, by using advanced agent technology and business analytics to monitor supply chain execution flow.
GT Nexus and Kinaxis are expected to support both enterprise customers seeking control tower applications, as well as BPO practices that require an "on demand" IT infrastructure to deploy and manage integrated planning and execution processes for their customers.
