“Traditional demand planning considers demand history in terms of quantity only, ignoring customer order lines. ToolsGroup’s SO99+ on the other hand analyzes the demand history both in terms of quantity and customer order lines, in order to better model the shape of the demand. The close connection between desired service level and inventory level is very positive.”
"ToolsGroup’s support allowed us to improve management of supplier contracts and spare parts service levels to our customers."
"Thanks to the continuous improvement program with ToolsGroup, we’re now at the point where we can confidently switch off our own manual overrides and put complete trust in the forecasts.”
"Our ecommerce business faces an increasing SKU count and highly intermittent demand, and with shifting consumer preferences there could be a potential disruption around every corner. We partnered with ToolsGroup so that no matter what tomorrow brings, we can deliver service to customers while effectively managing our inventory."
"Despite its power and level of sophistication, ToolsGroup is highly automated for an extremely low cost of ownership."
"Thanks to ToolsGroup we have been able to really standardize and centralize the whole S&OP process much more efficiently and with many more users than before. The combination of a leading system component with powerful algorithms plus an easy-to-use web interface to collaborate with our European commercial teams really unlocks full potential to be fully demand-driven."
"We are currently managing 100% of the 46,500 store-order-lines per day. It is a fully automated replenishment process."
“We were facing the enormous challenge of organizational change, which included not only the search for a technological tool, but also changes in the organizational structure, processes and systems."
“Through the supply chain transformation process, we get to read the sell-out information in terms of burgers and translate it to ingredients, so we have the end product sales forecast and use it to purchase all supplies in terms of ingredient cases. This is done using SO99+ mixed with our own SAR Management System, resulting in increased efficiency and greater visibility.”
“We needed good visualization throughout the whole process and we needed better timing and forecasting. SO99+ makes us a lot more agile and prepared.”
"There was an immense amount of flexibility from ToolsGroup leadership to really get into the weeds of our business and how they can adapt their tool to meet our business objectives."
"We chose ToolsGroup because of its ease of use and the scalability of its applications, which made it easy to invest in and evolve with as our company transforms."
"We went from a time consuming manual planning to full focus on optimizing. Now we can plan even further ahead and our next goal is to get a “GPS-function” for planning, we will tell it where we want to go and it will draw the map."
“The category is still at its early stages in most countries. One of our strong focuses is to drive innovation and leverage technology to keep on delivering healthier and high quality products. Outsourcing allows us to scale rapidly to accompany our growth and international expansion, while focusing our investment in product development and developing the category penetration. We develop and control the recipes, product specifications, and quality, and we can bring in more manufacturers to support our growing business as needed.”