86 ToolsGroup Testimonials

"It was becoming increasingly difficult to forecast the growth each year, and then figure out how to allocate goods to the new stores.”

"The key to the success of this project has been the close collaboration of Spar GC's supply team; a young team open to change and willing to learn, and the highly knowledgeable ToolsGroup consulting team who facilitated the system implementation."

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

"The ability to generate accurate sales forecasts and define operational plans has allowed Deroma’s SI&OP process to deliver a reliable service level to the market while efficiently utilizing production and logistics."

"Before ToolsGroup, my team invested a colossal effort for a small payoff. Now the situation is reversed. The chief reason ToolsGroup frees up our time is that we now trust the output. This means we can spend more time looking at the genuine exception SKUs rather having to question everything.”

"We have always guaranteed a high service level to our clients. The goals set for SO99+ were to reduce stock, to improve stock mix and to further increase our service level - were therefore very ambitious. With Service Optimizer 99+ and the support of ToolsGroup we were able to carry out this project and achieve the set goals.”

"One of the clear premises for us and conveyed to ToolsGroup was that the technology should be adapted to our processes and way of working."

"The overall process both identifies the inventory needed to fulfill orders and models in-transit and safety stock to minimize inventory while maintaining high service levels.”

“The results we’ve achieved with ToolsGroup have made Rajapack Italia a benchmark for the group’s subsidiaries in replenishment management.”

“Before ToolsGroup, the replenishment process was done manually using spreadsheets. We were able to generate a forecast based on average consumption over the previous three months, which was satisfactory for fast-moving items, but extremely inadequate for seasonal products, or those with very intermittent demand.”

“The ToolsGroup solution is extremely dynamic and flexible; we can quickly and easily modify product/supplier combinations and add new rules. This is critically important for us, in an industry characterized by high variability. ToolsGroup has simplified managing multiple suppliers on the same code, because it indicates the most profitable partner at that time, considering lead time and price. It’s effective for managing speculative purchases, where the trade-off between purchase convenience and overstock risk is fundamental.”

“We chose to replace our legacy system with ToolsGroup’s SO99+ software for its proven ability to take many different variables into account to improve forecast accuracy, make optimal tradeoffs depending on customer channel, and ultimately support S&OP.”

"The new system improves efficiency and inventory balance, allowing us to satisfy promotion and media uplifts with timely production and balanced inventory deployment to achieve the target service levels."

“SO99+ lets us drill down on single SKUs, on product families, or on the total warehouse policy. This means we can now forecast the seasonality for new items, even those that are product substitutions.”

"In less than two years, despite a 20% increase in the product range, the Spare Parts Division service level was improved by 32% while reducing inventory.”