86 ToolsGroup Testimonials

“This increase is removed 10 days before the campaign ends, allowing the volumes to sell down; SO99+ then excludes the temporary increase from future forecasts. The software also ‘learns’ from previous campaigns, as well as from customer patterns and seasonal variations.”

“As a Pernod Ricard brand, The Absolut Company participates in a company-wide process based on the principles of S&OP called “Supply Review.” As part of this, supply chain and customer service people collaborate to optimize sales and inventory planning using forecasts generated by SO99+.”

“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."

"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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Aligning our supply chain planning processes with customer service and commercial goals helped us more dynamically respond to consumer preferences and improve the pace of promotions.”

"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.”

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