NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF.—TheSupplyChain.comSM added an advanced planning and scheduling module to its line of Web-based, enterprise resource planning products.

The APS functionality will help firms reduce supply chain costs, improve product margins, lower inventories and increase manufacturing throughput. Utilizing constraint-based master scheduling, demand forecasting, real-time promise dates and projected ship dates, companies may now address planning, execution and Internet trade from within a single enterprise application.

Inter-enterprise Capable to Promise (ICTP), a part of our APS tool, will take an order and perform availability calculations in real-time across supply chain participants," says CEO Rob Rennie. "We're approaching the theoretical limits of supply chain and inventory cost reductions with this type of technology."

"Increasing the intelligence of a supply chain and the reliability of data transmitted among trading partners, will have a tremendous effect on the profitability and responsiveness of a business," says Rennie.