Executive Summary This is an interactive TCO calculator for Demand Works Smoothie for supply planning. How it Works Fill out the form below for your customized Demand Works Smoothie TCO Calculator, as well as each of the supporting cost components that make up the TCO. The form does not have a “beginning or end.” The…
Executive Summary This is an interactive project planning calculator for ToolsGroup S099. How it Works Fill out the form below for your project planning estimate. The form does not have a “beginning or end.” The form is constantly calculating, so feel free to make constant changes and the application will auto-adjust. Details Vendor Name: ToolsGroup…
Executive Summary This article is part of our honest vendor series, which is one of the only ratings of vendors rather than applications. The vendor quality is critical to the decision making process as software purchases have a high long term involvement by the software vendor. Introduction PlanetTogether is an unlikely company to have developed…
Executive Summary This article is part of our honest vendor series, which is one of the only ratings of vendors rather than applications. The vendor quality is critical to the decision making process as software purchases have a high long term involvement by the software vendor. Introduction Demand Works is a small and highly innovative…
Executive Summary This article is part of our honest vendor series, which is one of the only ratings of vendors rather than applications. The vendor quality is critical to the decision making process as software purchases have a high long term involvement by the software vendor. Introduction ToolsGroup is based in Amsterdam and is one…
Executive Summary This is the Honest Vendor Rating for SAP. SAP ranks as one of our lowest-rated vendors in topics ranging from SAP’s sales tactics to their value. Introduction SAP is the world’s largest enterprise software company. However, as a company, like the most significant consumer software company in the world, Microsoft, SAP lives in…
Executive Summary Most aggregated planning is performed in demand planning. However, aggregated planning can be used for supply in APO and other systems. Aggregated supply planning in APO can be performed when the supply planning load is calculated outside of the system. Introduction to Aggregate Supply Planning Aggregated planning is for supply is one of the…
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…
Executive Summary Background on the history of supply chain planning. A fascinating supply chain process diagram from 1946. The area of coverage of the diagram. A short bio of the diagram’s author. What the diagram tells us about system evolution in this area. The Background on The History of Supply Chain Planning In a previous…
Executive Summary APO has shared resources between SNP and PP/DS, which is called the mixed resource. There are critical differences in assumptions between SNP and PP/DS. In this article, we compare these two applications to how another application manages shared resources. Introduction In the vast majority of cases with APO, SNP, and PP/DS share the…