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How to Create a Forecast for Assemble to Order Planning
ByPrimary Researcher March 30, 2014October 22, 2023

… demonstrated.
What is Assemble to Order Planning?
Interestingly, there is some confusion regarding what assemble to order planning is. Assemble to order is very simply when the procurement plan is not based upon the finished goods forecast. In a standard make to order environment, the finished products forecast is created – and then the supply planning method (MRP, cost or inventory optimization or allocation) is run on this prediction. This is only an appropriate solution if the rules of make to order forecasting apply to the business.
Assemble to order planning works well when a relatively few numbers of input …

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The Brightwork Research & Analysis Rating and Risk for ToolsGroup SO99 for Supply Planning
ByPrimary Researcher January 17, 2014December 2, 2020

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MUFI Rating & Risk for ToolsGroup SO99 (Supply Planning)
MUFI: Maintainability, Usability, Functionality, Implement ability
Vendor: ToolsGroup (Select For Vendor Profile)
Introduction
ToolsGroup is a software vendor that is mostly known for its inventory optimization and multi echelon planning software for supply planning.
Application Detail
ToolsGroup supply planning application uses inventory management and multi-echelon planning functionality. ToolsGroup SO99 has what we consider to be the best graphing ability in supply planning for showing the relationship between …

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The Brightwork Research & Analysis Rating and Risk for SAP SmartOps
ByPrimary Researcher January 17, 2014May 7, 2022

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Introduction
SmartOps, before its acquisition by SAP in 2013, was one of the significant inventory optimization vendors. For some years SmartOps was involved in a partnership with SAP, where SAP was primarily a reseller of SmartOps. This was one of the primary ways that SmartOps became the best-known inventory optimization and multi echelon-planning (MEIO) vendor. It was not, as SmartOps has repeatedly proposed (or believes themselves) because they had the best technology.
Application Detail

SNP is marketed as a leading solution, but it does not have the most advanced method in supply planning, which is inventory optimization …

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The Brightwork Research & Analysis Rating and Risk for SAP APO SNP
ByPrimary Researcher January 17, 2014December 2, 2020

… it is configured, it typically stays in the same state for years, because a small change can completely alter the output because of the interaction with so many settings.
SNP is marketed as a leading solution, but it does not have the most advanced method in supply planning, which is inventory optimization and multi-echelon planning (MEIO). There are some reasons why MEIO is a far better method than cost optimization for supply planning. However, one of the most important is that service levels are far easier for companies to set than determining their costs. SAP argues that this functionality …

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The Brightwork Research & Analysis Rating and Risk for ToolsGroup SO99 (Forecasting)
ByPrimary Researcher January 16, 2014January 28, 2024

Executive Summary

This is the Brightwork Research & Analysis software rating series.
We rate both the software and estimate the risk of implementing each application.

MUFI Rating & Risk for ToolsGroup SO99 (Forecasting)
MUFI: Maintainability, Usability, Functionality, Implement ability
Vendor: ToolsGroup (Select For Vendor Profile)
Introduction
ToolsGroup is a software vendor mainly known for its inventory optimization and multi-echelon planning software for supply planning. However, while less known for the forecasting functionality of their SO99 product, it is a competent application.
Application Detail
ToolsGroup, in everything that it does, is very focused on what is known as stochastic modeling. This means …

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The Brightwork Research & Analysis Honest Vendor Rating for ToolsGroup
ByPrimary Researcher January 3, 2014December 1, 2020

… Information Provided
ToolsGroup provides a generally good level of information to its customers. Recently ToolsGroup has been promoting demand sensing, which we completely disagree with being a valid way to improve forecast accuracy. However, this seems to be more of an aberration. When it comes to their core information around inventory optimization and demand planning the information provided is quite good.
Consulting and Support
ToolsGroup’s S099 application, along with its highly skilled and educated workforce make ToolsGroup a good selection for supply chain planning connoisseurs. If a company is instead not interested in getting into the nuances of supply …

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Software Ratings

Software Category Analysis - Supply Planning
ByPrimary Researcher January 3, 2014May 7, 2022

… we can support with project experience, that the complexity of the mathematics used to generate the supply plan is only one measurement of the application. This is a consistent observation across many enterprise software categories if not all of them that complex solutions often do not lead to good outcomes.
Inventory Optimization and Multi-Echelon Planning
Several of the applications profiled in this software category section use the inventory optimization and multi-echelon planning (MEIO for short) method. MEIO is an innovative use of two separate forms of optimization: inventory optimization and multi-echelon inventory optimization (but which I refer …

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Forecast Basics

How to Best Understand Forecasting at the Customer
ByPrimary Researcher August 31, 2013December 13, 2020

… based upon the customer or ship to. This fits neatly into the growing trend that companies have to perform planning in a differentiated way based on either a customer or a defined service level. This is referred to as service level based planning. And this brings up the topic of inventory optimization.
The Relationship to Inventory Optimization
Inventory optimization is a supply planning technology which derives stocking levels based upon service levels. The most advanced inventory optimization software can perform planning in this way by setting the service level not only at the product location but also at the customer …

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Our Books on Supply Planning Software
ByPrimary Researcher August 19, 2013May 7, 2022

Inventory Optimization and Multi Echelon Software
What the Book is About
This books explains the emerging technology of inventory optimization and multi-echelon (MEIO) supply planning. It takes a complex subject and effectively communicates what MEIO is about in plain English terms. This is the only book currently available that describes MEIO for practitioners, rather for mathematicians or academics. The book describes with text and graphics (see more)

Supply Planning with MRP/DRP and APS Software
What the Book is About
This books focuses on the five non-MIEO methods of supply planning, MRP/DRP, heuristics, allocation, and cost optimization …

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Our Book on Using Multiple Methods of Planning in SAP APO
ByPrimary Researcher March 11, 2013May 7, 2022

… time is spent debating between the various supply planning methods, but very little is written on how to integrate multiple methods properly. That is unfortunate because all methods and method modifiers can be of value in some circumstances.
Furthermore, the various supply planning methods cannot be compared based on their sophistication, the most common way to grade each technique. Some met is exceptionally sophisticated but is also complex, expensive, and challenging to implement, to troubleshoot, and to explain. For instance, the most complicated methods in supply planning are optimization (both cost-based and inventory optimization and multi-echelon planning …

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