255 Board Testimonials

"BOARD allows us to consolidate in a split second! Yes, consolidation can happen with a single button! Yes, consolidation can happen for 48 manufacturing plants and for 85 warehouses! At the beginning I was very skeptical, but I can guarantee you that it works.”

"The BOARD toolkit puts the solution in the end-users hands, taking the pressure away from other departments. The more I discover about the toolkit the more I realize I am on a learning curve."

“We selected BOARD because, together with its flexibility, it gives us a new approach. For us, this challenging journey wasn’t a mere project. Rather, it was a program, a new path towards an end-to-end budgeting, planning, and forecasting process."

"About 50 capacity planners, 200 sales planners, and 150 cost planners are working on the complex planning activities at Hapag-Lloyd. Of course, their plan sizes are very different. That's why the trade manager, who plans the capacities, needs to know which orders are required to optimally plan routes and capacities."

"The upstream systems that provide the raw data are SAP and proprietary systems from Hapag-Lloyd. Board links the data of both systems via SQL Server and forms a single-point-of-truth (SPOT) for the planners worldwide."

"There was lots of extra stuff we needed to do so we did one vendor round focused around two key criteria. The solution had to be a best-in-class product and it had to be a cloud platform, which is why we selected Board."

"25 different companies all had a lot of autonomy at one point in time, and we've brought them together into a single set of processes. And we really drive those sales processes through our sales process optimization process and through Board. We have 33 different Board databases and 37 different dashboards being utilized by 3,000 users to gain full clarity over our 4.6 million customers and 9 million service activities taking place each year. We're in a different age now, thanks to the Board decision-making platform."

"We have implemented, using Board, a Range Plan for each store which sets out the number of target SKUs, from which the average sales price, quantity, and depth (by store) are calculated. At a regional level the Assortment Plan defines with product will be available in the market for future seasons. Each buying session defines the product quantities that will be ordered per store. The order is then aggregated in clusters and sent to production. Initial allocation defines the product quantity that will be send to stores at the beginning of the season and also defines what will be available in the warehouse during the season in order to replenish stores."

"From an IT standpoint this choice assured us of many important advantages: in fact, the adoption of Board has enabled us to overcome the limitations of Excel in terms of volume, security, the centralization of data, and the ability to simulate and report. At the same time, we found the tool easy to install and configure, allowing the multidimensional database to be managed in a totally intuitive manner."

"Excel could no longer guarantee our ability to report on and analyze the data obtained from SAP and so we felt the need for a tool that would allow us to interact quickly with all of our data, in an intelligent manner, and administer the growing volume of information generated by our business."

"At the selection stage, the principal alternative considered was SAP BW, but the implementation costs and a certain rigidity detected at the prototyping stage suggested that we should go for a more flexible solution. A tool that did not require heavy investment or long lead-times before producing the operational information we needed: this is why we chose Board."

"We are in a very fast-moving and unpredictable market. There is very high sales variability, particularly down to the high seasonality of products as consumers tend to buy more around the holidays. We have limited order book visibility - usually a maximum of one month – and the lead time for some key components is extremely long. Sometimes it can be up to 12 weeks, which can cause a four-month delay in the production of a drone, so balancing supply and demand can be tricky. Add to this the rapid obsolescence of some electronic components and regular releases of new versions which require testing, and you have a complex logistical operation."

"Being responsible for all aspects of planning, including assortments, stock levels. discounts, prices and promotions - senior and junior buyers had to perform extremely convoluted tasks with a high risk of error, due to the large number of Excel sheets involved and the misalignment of data files produced independently. Area managers also struggled to obtain an integrated overview Of their operations. The entire process was much too rigid, representing a major issue for activities in the fashion sector, where changes are rapid and products have a very short life cycle. Additionally, it was extremely difficult to present planning data properly. Lengthy data processing was needed in order to understand the various dimensions involved (brands, product lines, geographical areas."

"I have realized that features that we now just take for granted – after about 20 years of progressive use of Board – are by no means easy to find or replicate on other software developed by Board’s competitors!"

“Thanks to Board’s customer-based planning with Integrated Business Planning (IBP) approach, the interaction between the functions has undoubtedly improved: all the channels are unified into a single tool. All this has increased the percentage of business targets that we are achieving."