”Our existing technology couldn’t support our S&OP efforts.”

“Storing tires is becoming more and more complex. With the massive arrival of SUVs on the European market, products are larger. Moreover, the supply cycles of manufacturers who are very far away can be quite long. Therefore, to respond effectively to customers, whose expectations of service and speed are becoming …

“Our historical challenges were similar to a lot of companies in our industry. We were using a flat average and fairly manual math to do a lot of our forecasting. Or in the absence of data analysis, we just relied on somebody who knew their market and could give us …

“As a leading international company, we at ADI are constantly striving to improve the service we offer our customer while keeping inventory under control. ToolsGroup provided us with the expertise we needed in stock and service optimization, allowing us to improve our balance sheet and results by cutting fixed assets.”

"Today, branch logistics is much more streamlined and the work carried out by our most experienced logistics teams are completely integrated into the other business functions. This amplifies our ability to deliver real added value throughout the supply chain."

"ToolsGroup’s support allowed us to improve management of supplier contracts and spare parts service levels to our customers."

“In a luxury business like ours, nothing affects team morale more than our ability to meet service requirements. Thanks to ToolsGroup applying its new machine learning technology to our problem in a creative way, we’re now much better geared up to serve our demanding client base without impacting our bottom …

“We had one customer re- up because we could provide them service they couldn’t get anywhere else.”

“We’ve seen dramatic increases in our service level with significant reductions in inventory across Europe.”

“The demand forecast was carried out by sales and marketing, so the supply chain people reworked the forecast in order to trigger replenishments. We had a lot of uncertainty due to poor forecast practices.”

“Before we could only forecast at the product level, today we can forecast right down to the customer level anytime, at the press of a button. That really opened a whole new world to us because now we forecast demand from our most important customers by product."

"Today our planners spend all their time planning proactively and resolving exceptions instead of entering data and fighting fires."

“We had never been able to achieve the 99% service levels that SO99+ enabled, let alone with the 25% reduction in inventory. SO99+ let us re-mix the stock in 2 months Needless to say, our finance people were ecstatic.”

“The implementation of SO99+ has increased service level from 97% to 99% and quality of the final delivery from 91% to 96%.”

"Innovation is fuelling our growth and this growth puts pressure on us to improve our working capital."