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Why upgrade from MRP to Advanced Planning!Leverage increased benefits from a stronger foundation


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EVOLVING CHALLENGES IMPACTS TO SUPPLY CHAIN

Why consider? A changing global landscape!

• Globalization and global sourcing - leaner supply networks, increased demand variability, cost volatility

• Increased customer expectations - faster product life cycles with local market requirements

• Mergers and acquisitions, and continued consolidation of suppliers and customers

• Increasing compliance requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley

• Capture demand signals more frequently and closer to the point of sale – drive to consensus demand number

• Shape your demand with profitability and capacity as key drivers

• Implement real-time and collaborative sales and operations planning process

Older business models are challenged by the new decentralized global network model

Move from static demand planning to demand sensing and shaping

Introduces new challenges andfocus areas:

• Materials and logistics are both primary constraints• Cross-enterprise synchronized view of demand signal

encompassing both supply and demand visibility• More scrutiny of material liability

Multi-tier decision support instead of enterprise plans

• Analyze optimal flows for market response, changing geo-political situations, and unplanned events

• Rationalize suppliers to minimize risk• Determine postponement strategies• Conduct cost-to-serve and product portfolio analysis

Focus on more frequent supply network flow analysis

Business trends forcing you to move to demand driven adaptive planning


Sense Demand

Respond toDemand

ShapeDemand

Demand Driven Adaptive PlanningThe demand driven company runs on real-time information


Demand Driven leaders have:• 15% less inventory• 17% stronger order fulfillment• 35% shorter cash-to-cash cycle times

Which translates to:• 60% better profit margins • 65% better EPS • 2-3X the ROA

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Why Is Demand Driven Important?Tangible benefits!


Long planning cycles

Supply PlanningDemand Planning

Distribution plans

Sales

Marketing

Mfg.

Response 1:Maintain excess inventory

Response 2:Reserve production capacity

Response 3:Expedite everything!

Fax

Tier 2

Tier 1

CUSTOMERS SUPPLIERS

Supply Chains built on INVENTORY

Production plans

Manufacturing plans

Paper Paper

?Manual

ReconciliationDifferent “one”

number

Cannot Enable with Disconnected Systems


Better Approach Demand driven adaptive planning process platform

• Real-time end demand visibility – Quickly sense and respond to demand changes

• Shape demand and align business plans quickly

• Manage your business with real-time sales and operations planning

• Monitor performance to drive continuous improvement

Supply Chains built on INFORMATION instead of

Inventory

Consensus demand and production plan

Holistic Supply Planning

Demand Hub & Multi-dimensional analysis

Automated Exceptions

Real-Time S&OP

Singleholistic plan

Embedded Analytics

Sales

Marketing

Mfg.

Manufacturing

PortalPortal

Tier 2

Tier 1

CUSTOMERS SUPPLIERS


How

Delivers


Oracle Advanced Planning SolutionComplete, best-in-class e-business planning process platform

Future *

IntegratedPlanningFunctions

Products

Platform

E1 EBS …Legacy

ERP* *

WFL Common planning data model

Connectors

NetworkDesign Demand Sensing

And Shaping PostponementOptimization Holistic

Supply Planning Promise,

Distribute, andReplenish

Execute to plan

Embedded Analytics

Role-based Portals

Preconfigured Worksheets and

Workbenches

Operational Excellence

Real-Time S&OP

Demand drivenadaptive planning

Multi-EnterpriseCollaboration

Trading Partners

Best in classBusinessProcesses

Supply ChainRisk Management

StrategicNetwork

Optimization

InventoryOptimization

Real-TimeSales &

OperationsPlanning

DemandManagement& AdvancedForecasting

PredictiveTrade

Planning &Optimization

AdvancedSupply Chain

Planning

ProductionScheduling

GlobalOrder

Promising

CollaborativePlanning


• Demand driven adaptive planning– Sense demand better through advanced analytics, improved consensus

forecasting, and real-time visibility to demand events– Shape demand by enabling real-time sales and operations planning, and

promotions planning and optimization– Respond faster to demand through holistic supply planning, cross-enterprise

collaboration, and demand-driven VMI

• Global supply chain design and risk management– Design your network holistically– Account for variability in your hedging strategy– Incorporate flexibility to enable fault tolerant supply networks

• Drive operational excellence– Improve demand fulfillment through real-time distributed global order promising– Improve shop floor efficiency with real-time production scheduling– Drive continuous improvement with embedded analytics

Enables leading edge and transformational business processesOracle Advanced Planning


Why upgrade to Advanced Planning

Enables leading edge and transformational business processes …

Where to start?

How to expand?


From standard MRP …

• Unconstrained material and resource planning for a single manufacturing organization

• Basic forecasting

• Basic unconstrained available to promise

• No collaboration with trading partners

It provides benefits (similar to how black-and-white TV provided benefits)

No future growth path !


… to Unconstrained Advanced Planning

• Improved planner productivity through a new productivity enhancing UI, planner collaboration, and workflow automation

• Reduced planning cycle time by running fewer plans

• Continuous improvement through integrated business intelligence

• Improved scalability and performance through component architecture

Lay down a strong foundation for future growth, at similar cost!

Strong foundation for future growth path !


Strong Foundation For Future GrowthLeverage common infra-structure when expanding to other planning areas

APS Foundation (common data model, component architecture)

Oracle ERP(different releases, multiple instances)

Oracle ERP(same release, single instance)

MRP

Sense Demand

Respond to Demand

Shape Demand

• Unconstrained resource and material planning• Constrained based planning• Distribution planning and constrained global order promising

• Simple forecasting• Advanced statistics• Causals, attribute based forecasting

• Real-time S&OP• Promotions and sales incentives

Design for Agility• Inventory hedging strategies• Supply chain risk analysis

Collaborate across Enterprises• Vendor managed and consigned

inventory• Multi-enterprise supply planning

Respond to Demand


Start with Unconstrained Supply PlanningSimilar effort as deploying MRP – Reuse all existing setup !

APS Foundation

Oracle ERPs

Sense Demand

Respond to Demand

Shape Demand

• Unconstrained resource and material planning

• Constrained based planning• Distribution planning, GOP

Design for Agility• Use a single plan to plan your entire supply

chain to reduce planning cycle time– Simultaneous material and capacity planning– Plan process and discrete mixed models– Perform forecast consumption inline

• Plan at aggregate level, as well as detailed level in a single plan, with better accuracy

– Time granularity in plan horizon– Account for yields

• Leverage advanced problem solving and analysis tools

– Comprehensive exception management and automation through workflow

– Extensive pegging capabilities

• Measure plan to target performance– Integrated performance management

Collaborate


Why ASCP instead of MRP

Master Production Scheduling

Component architecture

Integration with Oracle Shop Floor Management (semi-conductor support)

Integration with Oracle Process Manufacturing (process support)

Integrated performance management

Supply chain planning and Distribution Planning(1)

In line forecast consumption

Personal and public queries

Audit trail and undo

Problem solving and analysis tools

New productivity enhancing user interface

Plan at aggregate level as well as detailed (hour, minute) level in one plan, for each plan time period

Plan all locations, all manufacturing methods, all planning time horizons (short to long term) in a single plan

Mixed mode manufacturing support

Capacity Requirements Planning

Material Requirements Planning

Rough Cut Capacity Planning

ASCPMRPCapabilities

(1) Requires CBO


Implementing Unconstrained Supply Planning

Install1 Install ASCP using the 11i rapid install processDecide on deployment (one instance, distributed)

Setup2 Link Planning instance to ERP source instanceDefine profile options (optional)

Collect3 Run data collection process to collect ERP data for planningCollect from one or more source instances (optional)

Plan4 Define plan and plan optionsRun plan

Analyze5 Launch Planner Workbench to analyze plans

Similar effort as deploying MRP – Reuse all existing setup !


Similar effort as deploying MRP – Reuse all existing setup !

1. Link ERP source and Planning instance (one time)

Implementing Unconstrained Supply Planning


Implementing Unconstrained Supply PlanningSimilar effort as deploying MRP – Reuse all existing setup !

2. Collect ERP source data



3. Define plan and plan options



4. Run plan


5. Improved Plan Analysis

• Personal queries for items, resources, orders, and exceptions

• Multiple horizontal plan definitions

• Enhanced multi-level pegging• Bookmark and undo for

simulation (OLP)• Release based on rules• Improved Gantt Chart for order

and resource analysis• Item attribute simulation sets

Make your planners more productive right away


Adaptable – Segment the Problem As Needed

• Adapts to your current business model

– Single plan or multiple plans– Hub-and-spoke planning models

• Evolve planning model at your own pace

– Re-configure easily by modifying plan options instead of re-implementing or re-modeling

• Multiple models can co-exist

One holistic plan

One DPP, multiple MRP

Distribution Plan for all Distribution Centers

MRP Org 1 MRP Org 2 MRP Org 3

Supply chain plan for all Organizations

Multiple production plans

MPS for BU 1

MRPOrg 1

MRPOrg 2

MRPOrg 3

MPS for BU 2

MRPOrg 4

MRPOrg 5

MRPOrg 6


Why upgrade to Advanced Planning


Where to start?

How to expand?


How to Expand?Focus on your most important business problem first

APS Foundation

Oracle ERPs

Sense Demand

Respond to Demand

Shape Demand

• Unconstrained simultaneous resource and material planning

• Constrained based planning• Distribution planning, GOP

Design for Agility

• Improve the quality of your plans– Constraint based optimization– Cost based optimization

• Improve operational excellence– Constrained based order promising– Distribution planning

• Improve demand sensing– Consensus demand management closer to the point of consumption– Leverage better statistics for more accurate forecasts– Use causal modeling and attribute based forecasting to improve

forecast number

• Shape demand for profitability– Analyze the impact of promotions and sales incentives programs on

your demand predictions– Analyze the impact of new product introductions– Leverage sales and operations planning to balance demand, supply,

and budgets

• Collaborate across multiple enterprises• Design your supply chain with agility in mind

– Design your supply chain with cost and profitability as drivers– Align your inventory hedging and postponement strategy

Collaborate


Improve The Quality Of Your Plans

• Improve plan quality– Automatically recommend alternative suppliers,

components, resources, facilities, and routings– Generate feasible plans that respect your material

and resource constraints

• Make better decisions faster– Cost based optimization: maximize profit,

inventory turns, and customer service– Out-of-the-box optimization requires no

programming– Priority based decisions– Drag-and-drop rescheduling

• Improve resource scheduling– Schedule simultaneous resources– Batch resources– Minimum transfer quantities– Sequence dependent changeovers

Constraint based and optimized planning


Global Forecasting and Inline Consumption

• Postpone fulfillment decision to supply planning

– Check availability before specifying shipping location

– Allocate supply to customers

• Generic forecasts– Forecast without reference to

shipping facilities– Consume forecast based on type

of demand

Zone Customer Zone Customer Customer Site Demand Class Global (Item)

Global Forecast

Organization 1 Organization 2 Organization 3Ship from locations

Ship to

Forecast distribution

Consume forecasts with respect to ship to

Increase flexibility for your fulfillment decisions


• Make better decisions faster– Level load– Choose alternatives– Make versus buy decisions– Late demand diagnosis

• Out-of-the-box optimization– Use costs or decision rules

• Start quickly– Planners define the problem to solve– Flexible defaulting

• Reduce planner workload

Out-of-the-box OptimizationOptimization for planners, not programmers


Comprehensive Manufacturing Planning

• Sequence dependent setup minimization• Contiguous operations• Resource charges• Simultaneous resources• Batch resources• Alternate resources• Minimum transfer quantities• Complex, network routings• By-products and co-products• Line rates and takt times• Setup and run

Example features


Expand to Production SchedulingComplete, integrated Manufacturing Planning and Scheduling process

ATP Check

GOPDay 1 Day 2

• Multiple facilities• Which plant makes what

products and when• Pre-builds based on capacity

shortages• Alternate facilities, suppliers

and processes

Day 3

Production Schedule Org 1

8am 12pm

• Schedule a single facility• Sequence Production to meet

demands on this facility• Account for detailed

production constraints and come up with an executable schedule

4pm

PS – Production Schedule Org 2

PS – Production Schedule Org 3Constrained dependent demandsindependent demandsplanned orders

ASCP – Production Plan PS – Production Schedules

Production Plan Org 1, 2, and 3

Execution work ordersProcess batches, and Lots scheduled detailed activities


• Maximize production throughput– Optimize your shop floor; detect floating bottlenecks– Reduce WIP inventory by rapidly synchronizing multi-

stage production schedules– Account for complex setup and change-over

scenarios, machine breakdown, supply and resource shortages, co- and by-products, alternate resources, routings, and operations

• Model all elements of your shop floor– Work centers, resources and resource groups, shift

capacity, operating costs– Lead times: setup, change-over, and run– Sequence dependent setups, contiguous operations,

production campaigns, batching

• Implement most optimal schedule –seamless integration with Oracle EBS

– Output best schedule for process (OPM), discrete MFG), and semi-conductor (OSFM) manufacturing

Improve shop floor efficiencyReal-Time, Interactive Production Scheduling



How To ExpandImprove operational excellence

APS Foundation

Sense Demand

Respond to Demand

Shape Demand Design for Agility

Collaborate

• Constrained global order promising• Distribution planning


• Promise orders based on:– Material availability– Manufacturing capacity– Transportation capacity– Supplier capacity

• Global statement of availability– All facilities, material, resources, and suppliers

• Drive fulfillment decisions based on demand and supply plans

– Promise based on optimal supply decisions

• Allocate available supply and capacity– By channel, customer, or product– Priority and stealing rules

• Manage commitments to key customers– Re-schedule and re-sequence your backlog

Improve demand fulfillment through 24x7 constraint based order promising Real-Time Distributed Order Promising


Comprehensive Distribution Planning

• Plan all distribution holistically– All central and regional distribution centers, customer and supplier

facilities, and manufacturing facilities– Bills of distribution and transfer rules– Product family and item level planning– Alternate components, resources, processes, suppliers, facilities, and

ship methods– End-item substitution

• Determine optimal supply allocation from plants to distribution centers using:

– Fair share allocation– Inventory policy at multiple levels (max, target, safety stock)– Inventory rebalancing (circular sourcing)– Shipping method selection and load consolidation– Global forecast -> local allocation of supply across distribution network

• Automatically generate transfers– Create internal transfers – Create consolidated shipments– Integrated with Oracle Transportation Management for carrier and mode

selection

• Automate replenishment– Suppliers manage your DC inventories– Manage your customers’ inventory

DemandPlanning

Multi-PlantPlanning

Demand

Distribute

DistributionPlanning

Supply

Cross-enterprise synchronized view of supply and demand


Distribution Planner Workbench

• Global visibility of suppliers, demands, and constraints for faster decision making

• Improved planner productivity– Automate routine decisions for fair share allocation, load

consolidation, and inventory balancing– Exception management to enable planners to focus on the

real problems – Embedded distribution plan metrics

• Comprehensive multi-dimensional analysis– Inbound and outbound shipments by organization in the

horizontal plan– Allocation decisions by customer and organization

• Find opportunities to improve load consolidation

• Integrated with Oracle EBS– Release and reschedule both internal requisitions and

internal sales orders simultaneously

Improve planner productivity – All key data in a single place



How To ExpandImprove demand sensing

APS Foundation

Sense Demand

Respond to Demand


Collaborate• Simple forecasting• Advanced statistics• Causal factors, attribute

based forecasting


• Get real-time visibility to all demand signals– Sales, marketing, manufacturing, customers, suppliers– Include point of sale information in real time– Move from a regimented periodic to a continuous demand

planning process

• Leverage advanced analytics to accurately predict demand

– High precision statistical forecasting, no statistical background required – Superior Bayesian-Markov analytics

– Use any combination of quantitative or qualitative data to establish your base line forecast

– Forecast based on attributes and characteristics

• Get quickly to an improved consensus number– Use multi-dimensional analysis to adjust, allocate, and rollup– Collaborate with internal and external constituents– Workflow driven forecasting exceptions ensures

responsiveness– Support for flexible formulaic expressions– Automatically sync when working in offline mode

Improved demand management — The first step to demand drivenSense Demand – Accurately Predict Demand


Easily navigate through user defined hierarchies

Configurable worksheets display the data each user needs to his job

Configurable reports, charts and graphs can be displayed anywhere

Color coding provides visibility to exceptions and areas of interest

Productivity enhancing UISense Demand – Accurately Predict Demand



How To ExpandShape demand for profitability

APS Foundation

Sense Demand

Respond to Demand


Collaborate

• Real-time S&OP• Promotions planning• New product

introductions


• What is my most profitable product mix?• What incremental volume will result from a

marketing program?• How will it impact the sales of other

products?• What were the indirect effects such as

cannibalization and consumer stockpiling?• Do I have enough material and capacity to

satisfy the promotion demand?• Where do I have excess capacity and how

can I influence demand to consume that excess?

• How does a marketing program at a brand or product family level impact a specific SKU?

CannibalizationPre- and post-effectsCompetitive switchingCategory growthBaselineActual

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Shape DemandUnderstand the financial and operational impacts of sales incentives


Shape Demand – Promotions Optimization

• Accurately estimate base volume and components of promotional lift

– Provides decomposition of incremental volume from advertising, promotions, or sales incentives

– Granular lift analytics – Incremental volume lift coefficients maintained at lowest level

• Promotion optimization– Simulate volume and profitability of future promotions– Perform what-if analysis to understand the impact of varying

promotional tactics and price points– Optimize promotional events based on goals and constraints -

profit, revenue, units, budget, timing, margin– Decompose lift to understand cannibalization, pantry loading,

and halo effectBaseline

IncrementalLong-Term

Growth

Pre and PostPromotion

Effect

Cross productCannibalization

Typical Demantra

Baseline

CompetitiveSwitching

Select the most profitable promotion


Shape Demand – New Product Introduction

• Chain and view demand of comparable products• Automatically identify comparable products based on characteristics• Automatically detect outliers• Align forecast based on actual demand

Accurately forecast demand for new products based on existing data


View promotion details and lift decomposition in a single screen

View base, incremental volume, history, projected, and promotion Gantt in a single screen

Shape Demand – Promotions Optimization


Shape Demand – Real-Time S&OP

• Identify financial and revenue goals• Analyze demand and develop sales

forecast• Synchronize plan across Finance,

Sales, Marketing, and Supply Chain • Determine potential market variables

• Review supply and demand plans• Develop constrained plan• Monitor results and respond to

deviations• Create promotions and incentives

to shape demand and close gaps

Marketing

Manufacturing

Finance

Executives

ProductDevelopment

Strategic plans Profitability

Promotional andvolume plans Service levels

Demand plans Inventory levels

Capacity plans Promotion effectiveness

Phase in and phase out products Plan accuracy

Strategic

Tactical Decisions

Sales

Make demand and supply decisions simultaneously



• Analytics-based demand management– Capture all demand data in a central place– Use analytics and intelligence to develop a bottom-up forecast – Move to weekly forecasting

• Workflow-driven collaborative planning– Enable a workflow driven multi-disciplinary collaborative process that

includes Manufacturing, Finance, Sales, Marketing, and external stakeholders

– Configurable planning platform adapts to business process– Web-based portal support internal and external collaboration

• Profitably balance supply, demand, and budgets– Make allocation decisions while trading off service levels and cost– Balance needs of many customers in different channels– Examine throughput on the most critically constrained resources and

profitability by product family

• Exception-based performance monitoring– Adjust demand or supply plan as conditions change – Drive continuous improvement– Create incentives and promotions to close gaps

• Decisions drive ERP and supply chain execution– Integrate with EBS, E1, third party ERP

Leverage best-in-class Sales and Operations Planning from Demantra



Measure internal inputs and

provide incentives to generate better inputs

Measure internal inputs and

provide incentives to generate better inputs

Improve demand visibility with customer collaboration

Improve demand visibility with customer collaboration

All the detailedinformation you need

to make the RIGHT decisions

All the detailedinformation you need

to make the RIGHT decisions

Automatically detect outliers while

forecasting for new product introductions

Automatically detect outliers while

forecasting for new product introductions

Leverage best-in-class Sales and Operations Planning from Demantra



How To ExpandCollaborate across multiple enterprises

APS Foundation

Sense Demand

Respond to Demand


Collaborate• VMI• Consigned• Supply collaboration


• Plan your extended supply chain– Share forecasts and supply commits with

customers and suppliers– Get visibility to supplier capacity– Reallocate key components – Make alternate sourcing decisions

• Reduce inventory cost and improve fulfillment

– Suppliers manage your inventory– Manage your customers’ inventory

• React quickly to supply chain exceptions

– Waterfall analysis– User-configurable exceptions– Automated exception handling via workflow

Run plan

Optional

Forecast ‘memory’

Supply commit‘boards’

Supply commit ‘memory’

Demand ‘boards’Run plan

Demand‘systems’

Supplyforecast

Consensusforecast

SUPPLIERCUSTOMER YOU CONTRACTMANUFACTURER

Cross-enterprise synchronized view of supply and demandRespond – Multi-Enterprise Collaborative Planning


Receive items

Pay on receipt/use

Checkinventory

status

Ship items

VMI Agreement(with supplier)

VMI AgreementVMI Agreement

Receive items

Pay on receipt/use Ship items

VMI Agreement(with customer)

Send consumptionadvice

CUSTOMER YOU SUPPLIER

Generate ship-tolevel forecast and

replenishment plan

Real-time POS driving adaptive forecasting and replenishmentRespond – Demand Driven VMI



How To ExpandDesign for agility

APS Foundation

Sense Demand

Respond to Demand


Collaborate

• Postponement and hedging strategies

• SC Risk analysis• Supply network design


• Answer the tough questions:– What impact do changing costs have on my

sourcing strategy?– What is the real total cost of outsourcing including

the impact on working capital and cash flow? – Where should my point of postponement be? – Where should I hold how much inventory, when?– How could I react to a disruption in supply due to

unforeseen events? Should I multi-source?– What are my most profitable channels or products

to invest in?– What is the impact of mergers and acquisitions on

my supply network and capital asset budget?

Design Resilient Supply NetworksEnable agile supply networks, aligned with your postponement strategy


Leverage resiliency in your supply chain for tactical responses

Design Resilient Supply Networks

• Network modeling and alternates• Sourcing strategy • Cost modeling• Asset rationalization • Safety stock strategy• What-if simulations• Risk related to unplanned events

Design supply chains that are resilient

Strategic Network Optimization (SNO)• Network modeling and alternates • What-if simulations• Cost modeling• Asset rationalization • Risk related to

unplanned events

Inventory Optimization (IO)• Model distribution of variability

(demand, supply, lead time)• Budget and capacity constraints• Time-phased min,

max, and target service levels

Inventory policiesTarget inventory levels Identification of point of postponement

Network structureSourcing rulesSuppliers and CMsMfg and Dis facilitiesShipment methods

Manage supply chain risk with profitability and postponement in mind



Summary


Upgrade from MRP to Advanced PlanningComplete, best-in-class e-business planning process platform

Future *

IntegratedPlanningFunctions

Products

Platform

E1 EBS …Legacy

ERP* *

WFL Common planning data model

Connectors

NetworkDesign Demand Sensing

And Shaping PostponementOptimization Holistic

Supply Planning Promise,

Distribute, andReplenish

Execute to plan

Embedded Analytics

Role-based Portals

Preconfigured Worksheets and

Workbenches

Operational Excellence

Real-Time S&OP

Demand drivenadaptive planning

Multi-EnterpriseCollaboration

Trading Partners

Best in classBusinessProcesses

Supply ChainRisk Management

StrategicNetwork

Optimization

InventoryOptimization

Real-TimeSales &

OperationsPlanning

DemandManagement& AdvancedForecasting

PredictiveTrade

Planning &Optimization

AdvancedSupply Chain

Planning

ProductionScheduling

GlobalOrder

Promising

CollaborativePlanning

Oracle Advanced Planning

Start with unconstrained supply planning

Expand quickly, leveraging the same foundation, tosolve your most important business problems first

Implement at a modular pace while not foregoing the benefits of out-of-the-box integration



• Proven, best in class planning solution– Many live customers on multiple products, across a wide variety of industries– Large-scale, complex, worldwide deployments– For Planners, Not Programmers - Out-of-the-box optimization and predictive analytics– Superior architecture - scalable, database-driven demand and supply planning; common data

model across all engines, shared with execution

• Provides significant value– Enables real-time demand driven dynamic supply planning – Enables customers to implement best practices such as RT S&OP, VMI, CPFR, Supply Chain

Risk Management, Inventory Postponement– Proven reductions of inventory and increases in forecast accuracy, customer service levels

• Progress at your own pace, transition gradually– Quickly start with the most important problem– Integrated platform enables crawl-walk-run approach – Leverage out-of-the-box integration to rapidly extend planning footprint

Low risk, high value transition to a best-in-class planning solutionKey Takeaways


Q U E S T I O N SA N S W E R S
