Aspen Supply Chain Connect™

Enables dynamic supply chains through superior enterprise connectivity along with data and model management

Aspen Supply Chain Connect is an enterprise-level solution that seamlessly integrates the aspenONE® Planning and Scheduling suite with ERP solutions. It has the ability to rapidly move huge quantities of real-time data from multiple sources through a relational database repository, providing the foundation for multi-user collaborative planning and scheduling, web-based reporting, and analytics. Aspen Supply Chain Connect is a core element of AspenTech’s aspenONE Planning and Scheduling applications.

Features

Product Components: Supply Chain Data Repository, Integration Engine, Data Manager, and Model Manager
Supply Chain Data Repository: Serves as the central hub and synchronization server for all the key business data exchanged with ERP systems or data warehouses, as well as data exchanged between business functions and aspenONE Planning and Scheduling applications. Also built in are a number of referential integrity checks that allow the repository to optionally add missing data to the tables.
Integration Engine: Uses high-performance ETL technology to extract, transform, and load data for AspenTech solutions. This integration engine executes all data transformation functions in-memory optimizing the transformation speed and can load the Supply Chain data repository directly with the ERP extracted bulk data or use a distributed architecture approach.
Data Management: A reporting and editing tool for quickly accessing and analyzing information either for validation or as part of the business process. It provides a data collection and retrieval facility to allow manual data entry and import/export of Excel data. Also provided is role-based access control for managing data in the centralized database.
Model Management: Controls access and storage of the applications for each business unit or functional area, essential for companies with centralized support or automated batch processes and facilitates checking models in and out. It also includes the business processes required to control access and manage changes to the Supply Chain Planning applications.

Benefits

Speeds response times to demand changes, enabling a truly dynamic supply chain
Streamlines implementation and integration requirements due to pre-configured interfaces to popular ERP systems
Provides multi-user scheduling
Captures ERP data (orders, inventory) for decision support