It is not uncommon to see a product's shipments double in one quarter and be cut in half over sequential quarters." To deal with this supply chain complexity and volatility, Teradyne sought out a solution that offered global visibility and rapid response capabilities in order to manage changes in demand, understand supply consumption and how to manage supply disruptions, shorten lead times and reduce excess and obsolete inventory. Teradyne selected RapidResponse from Kinaxis (formerly Webplan) because of its architecture's ability to integrate with Teradyne's Oracle ERP system and with the ERP systems of its contract manufacturers while enhancing their responsiveness. Teradyne planners, inventory managers, commodity managers and others use RapidResponse to view data across their extended supply chain and to create enabling tools to manage constantly changing business processes and business situations.