Demand Management for the Enterprise

Daily Insights into Demand

I-many's pioneering demand management solutions give life sciences companies daily insights into channel inventory, sales uptake and product movement—which products are selling and where—and syndicates that information enterprise-wide to commercial operations, sales, marketing, supply chain, and finance.

Unlock the Promise of the Demand Driven Enterprise

In today's highly competitive life sciences marketplace, manufacturers are looking for every possible edge. Leading manufacturers are now embracing the demand-driven enterprise as a source of competitive advantage. Success depends not just on the ability to read and react quickly to demand signals across the organization but to understand these signals in a context that provides the greatest insight for the enterprise.

While now widely used in the management of commercial operations, channel data is not a widely tapped resource for finance, marketing, sales, and product planning teams that are responsible for meeting key business objectives. When astutely organized, processed, and reported, channel data can unlock the promise of the demand-driven enterprise, where the entire organization focuses on monitoring, responding to, and orchestrating demand to optimize business performance.

Building on our leadership in providing quality-assured and normalized channel data, business-driven exception reporting, and key automated order and scorecard processing for commercial operations, we have expanded our solution to address issues in sales, marketing, finance, contracts, and supply chain.

Monitor and Manage Product Flow from Factory to Patient

The I-many Demand Management Suite for Life Sciences extends I-many's management of contracts and financial obligations with visibility, and control of product flow. Follow the contracts, follow the money, and now, follow the product.

Inform the Right People

I-many's demand management solutions easily integrate and enrich a vast array of internal and external data, perform sophisticated real-time analysis to find the exceptions that matter, syndicate actionable information to the right people at the right level of detail, and foster collaboration across the demand chain.

I-many Delivers a Full Suite

I-many delivers capabilities, performance and access to information others can't match.

I-many Channel Data Foundation is a proven, enterprise-class solution that validates, transforms, and preserves channel data for syndication across the enterprise. It translates EDI 852 and EDI 867 data from trading partners into a common usable form, and provides essential quality testing, a transaction-level system of record for policies, exceptions, and actions to meet stringent audit requirements and ensure Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance.

I-many Channel Visibility analyzes EDI 867 data to provide detailed invoice-level insight into product sales, returns and transfers between wholesalers and their customers.

I-many Order Management provides unparalleled governance of demand in the channel by giving supply chain and commercial operations unprecedented line-item-level visibility into, and process control over, orders from all trading partners using a variety of methods. A certified SAP connector assures enterprise-grade integration with SAP.

I-many Fee For Service provides end-to-end support for manufacturers who have adopted distribution service or Fee For Service agreements with their trading partners. It supports the creation of programs, and continuous calculation of performance against metrics, such as channel inventory, order variability, service fill rate, and data quality. In addition, payments can be calculated and adjusted at both the transaction and summary level.

I-many Forecast Management warns of significant gaps between financial, marketing, sales, production and even wholesaler forecasts and actual orders and shipments at any level of customer or product; projects actual sales to end-of-period, providing the opportunity to adjust tactics to more accurately meet market expectations.

I-many Launch Management enables next-day analysis of channel sales and wholesaler inventories to detect under-stocked and over-stocked situations to maximize the success of new product and indication launches. Capitalize on channel data to detect trends, confirm forecasts, and optimize adoption.

I-many Demand Insight provides next-day insight into channel sales uptake—providing the information needed to respond to shifts in demand much faster than ever before to improve the effectiveness of marketing campaigns and monitor sales performance.