86 ToolsGroup Testimonials

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

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

“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.”

"ToolsGroup enabled us to allocate the right products in the correct quantities at the proper locations, a key feature that our legacy replenishment system lacked. The ToolsGroup solutions are both modern and flexible and enable us to keep up with consumers’ changing buying habits.”

"Reducing the amount of time it takes to get everyday tasks done is essential to thrive in today’s fiercely competitive retail environment. We can now focus on different areas of the business, especially on analytical work.”

"ToolsGroup has taken us to the next level of replenishment without overtaxing us.”

"For me personally, that was the ‘Aha!’ moment – having the visibility into your SKUs at the lowest level if you need it.”

“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 greater than ever, it’s essential to have products in stock, ready to be shipped. This issue is at the heart of our strategy and of our success.”

“With all the new product launches we had scheduled, together with a growing customer portfolio, it was impossible to manage all the complexity with spreadsheets. We needed to digitize our supply chain planning in order to support our growth and help meet our company goals.”

“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 an estimated min/max for each product or product line. This is something that people were comfortable with because it had been done for a long time, but the reality was it just wasn’t a tremendously accurate or data-driven approach.”

“At that time, we probably had eight or nine different locations to one operations manager. A manual review of all those items might take him a month to do. In between the rest of his workload, he was touching each location maybe once a year.”

“We’re able to look at different scenarios, service classes and lead times to figure out if we need to raise or lower the service level. The demand planning helps me confidently forecast even items with unpredictable demand.”

"We knew we needed to find a platform that could take us on a journey towards an integrated solution across merchandise planning into allocations and replenishment, and one that could address our multi-channel business.”

“We needed an integrated system with visibility that could alert us to potential problems so that we could proactively manage them.”