Manage, monitor, and execute critical processes that extend across the value chain. Discrete and process manufacturers require repeatability, quality, and continuous improvement while the global trend towards outsourcing continues to grow. The result is increasingly interconnected and complex value chains for both direct and indirect goods and services.

Appian's business process management technology allows manufacturing organizations to manage critical processes that extend across the value chain, helping them work more efficiently with partners, suppliers, vendors, and customers.

With Appian solutions, manufacturers can:

• Manage, track, and audit key supplier relationships, resulting in reduced cost and improved performance for outsourced activities
• Control and reuse knowledge more effectively through collaborative communities
• Facilitate an exchange of ideas between departments as well as across the value chain
• Integrate operational and customer-related data systems, resulting in more rapid response to shifting customer demands
• Deliver relevant data and analysis from existing enterprise systems directly to decision points in key enterprise processes

Appians manufacturing solutions include:

• Acquisition Management
• Contract Management
• Global Supply Chain Management
• Inventory Management