Aera Skills™
Powered by the Aera Decision Cloud™, Aera Skills provide real-time insights, recommendations, and predictions. Aera Skills deliver prepackaged content, logic, and interactions that augment and automate business decisions.
Aera Skills™ are composable capabilities that extend the Aera Decision Cloud™ to address specific use cases that benefit from improved decision making. These capabilities work by giving contextual recommendations while maintaining full transparency - continuously measuring and learning from both anticipated and actual decision performance. Full transparency leads to trust in automated decisions - a requirement for systemic change.
Each Skill is a self-contained solution for a particular business problem with the following capabilities:
- Specific data crawlers needed to aggregate and harmonize information from required systems and put it in a common data model.
- Analytics calculations, machine learning models, and simulation models needed for the use case.
- Digitized decision flow and logic, including business rules and direct user interaction if needed.
- Logic needed to execute decisions back to target systems.
As you add more Skills, you can reuse common core elements and exchange information, making Skills smarter and more efficient over time.
Learn more about Aera Skills™
Logistics
Automate logistics decisions to optimize cost, service levels, efficiency and sustainability
The Aera Logistics Skills ensure customers receive the complete shipment on time, every time by accelerating transportation and logistics decision making.
- Efficient Shipping Plan
- Direct Shipment
- Logistics Event Management
Demand
Automate demand planning to reduce loss, improve accuracy, and optimize inventory levels.
The Aera Demand Skills sense, predict, and track changes in demand to generate the most accurate forecasts possible.
- Touchless Demand Forecasting
- Short-Term Demand Sensing
- Product Lifecycle Forecasting
Inventory
Automate inventory decisions to optimize service levels, reduce costs, and increase operational efficiency.
The Aera Inventory Skills address complex inventory challenges, taking demand and supply volatility into account while balancing service-level goals and capital constraints to deliver optimal inventory management.
- Dynamic Inventory Management
- Stock Rebalancing
- Production Scheduling
- Prevent Stockouts
Order
Automate order management decisions to increase fulfillment speed, accuracy, and customer satisfaction.
Aera Order Skills improve customer experience by helping to set the right expectations for order fulfillment while navigating the constant fluctuations in supply and demand.
- Availability to Promise (ATP)
- Dynamic Order Fulfilment
- Order Lifecycle Management
- Dynamic Supply Response
Control Tower
Gain end-to-end visibility and insights to streamline operations and enhance decision-making.
The Aera Digital Control Tower Skills give a complete 360° view of your supply chain to drive better, faster, and more accurate decision-making.
- Root Cause Analysis and Prediction
- Supply Scorecard and Ranking
Procurement
Making Direct Procurement More Efficient and Strategic
The Procurement Skills enable a highly efficient and streamlined procurement process by automating daily procurement tasks while giving the visibility required to augment and automate sourcing decision making.
- PO Lifecycle Management
- Supplier-Buyer Collaboration
- Spend Visibility
- Best Supplier Selection
- Contract Coverage
- Supply Resilience
Finance
Automate financial planning and forecasting to drive efficiency, accuracy, and strategic decision-making.
The Aera Finance Skills let organizations take real-time actions to keep organizations on target.
- Integrated Business Planning
- Profit and Loss Planning and Forecasting
- Financial Supply Planning
Revenue
Boost revenue and profitability with smarter trade promotions, media investments, and pricing strategies.
The Aera Revenue Skills automate and augment cyclical planning and in-season execution decisions for Price, Trade, and Promotions.
- Trade Promotion Optimization
- Media Optimization
- Price Optimization