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8 Considerations for Post-COVID Supply Chain Planning

28 May 2020

Dave Food, Strategy Director of Prophetic Technology, discussed in a recent webinar how companies have adapted their supply chains during this crisis, and provided guidance in planning for recovery and future uncertainty. We’ve captured the key takeaways from his presentation[...]

How Promotions Planning Software Enables Collaboration That Pays Off

How Promotions Planning Software Enables Collaboration That Pays Off

Promotions planning is challenging, but promotions planning software can help alleviate some of the common pain points companies face when they try to improve their forecast accuracy and increase promotions generated revenue. After spending half my career in marketing and[...]

Railroad Service Provider Nordco Stays on Track by Speeding Up Its Planning Process

Railroad Service Provider Nordco Stays on Track by Speeding Up Its Planning Process

With 100 years of experience, Nordco is a veteran of the railway industry. The company provides the products and services that rail-related industries need to stay on track, including substantial aftermarket spare parts and equipment production. However, like many smaller[...]

Resilient Supply Chains: Are We Poised for the Next Era in Planning?

Resilient Supply Chains: Are We Poised for the Next Era in Planning?

Supply chain planning concepts have been around for nearly half a century, but now many converging factors and technologies are ushering in a new era for this mature supply chain solution. We believe Gartner’s report, “Mastering Uncertainty: The Rise of[...]

How Does ToolsGroup Boost Planner Productivity to Help Your Team Be Ready for Anything?

How Does ToolsGroup Boost Planner Productivity to...

Adding automation to supply chain planning enables planners to be more productive and improves supply chain performance. By freeing up time formerly spent on manual[...]

McDonald’s Mesoamérica Supply Chain Response to COVID-19

McDonald’s Mesoamérica Supply Chain Response to COVID-19

Businesses around the world are learning to adapt as best they can to the COVID-19 supply chain impact. Unpredictable consumer behavior in response to macro[...]

Highlights from ToolsGroup’s Virtual Supply Chain Conference

Highlights from ToolsGroup’s Virtual Supply Chain Conference

Earlier this week we held our annual supply chain conference, TG/20, in a virtual format in order to keep the conversation going amid the ongoing[...]

How COVID-19 Will Change Supply Chains For Good

How COVID-19 Will Change Supply Chains For...

As the COVID-19 outbreak progresses, I’ve been watching the effects on supply chains and the impact of true demand (N95 masks) versus hyped demand (toilet[...]

ToolsGroup Customers Navigate Supply Chain Planning for COVID-19

ToolsGroup Customers Navigate Supply Chain Planning for...

ToolsGroup customers around the world have had to drastically adjust their supply chain planning in response to COVID-19 demand volatility. Between restrictions on the global[...]

How to Find Business Opportunities Amid the Coronavirus Supply Chain Crisis

How to Find Business Opportunities Amid the...

Here are ideas for grasping opportunities in the midst of the Coronavirus supply chain challenges The coronavirus’ supply chain and business impacts are being felt[...]

Using Digital Supply Chain Planning to Respond to Market-Changing Disruptions like COVID-19

Using Digital Supply Chain Planning to Respond...

With supply chain planning software you can automate the achievement of service levels, even under changing constraints resulting from major disruptions. As COVID-19 continues its[...]

Is Your Supply Chain ‘Ready for Anything’?

Is Your Supply Chain ‘Ready for Anything’?

Over the years we’ve built strong relationships with hundreds of global companies, and we hear the same challenges again and again: they can’t accurately plan[...]

19 February 2020

What Is Demand Sensing and How Do You Get Started?

What Is Demand Sensing and How Do...

“Good old supply chain. It just gets simpler every year!” … said no VP of supply chain ever. We’ve created quite a monster with all[...]

4 February 2020

Overcome Manufacturing Supply Chain Challenges with Digital Planning

Overcome Manufacturing Supply Chain Challenges with Digital...

The manufacturing industry has a strong heritage of adopting game-changing technologies to deliver higher quality products more efficiently. With the introduction of digital supply chains,[...]

22 January 2020

Business Intelligence vs. Inventory Optimization: Are You Solving Symptoms Instead of the Real Problem?

Business Intelligence vs. Inventory Optimization: Are You...

In my decades of working in replenishment and inventory optimization, I’ve noticed that many companies seek solutions to symptoms rather than the underlying problem. I[...]

14 January 2020

Six Most-Read Supply Chain Planning Blogs of 2019

Six Most-Read Supply Chain Planning Blogs of...

Happy New Year! 2019 is officially in the books, and it’s a perfect time to reflect on the past 12 months as we dive into[...]

Four Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Inventory Planning and Sustainability

Four Things You Probably Didn’t Know About...

You can’t scan the headlines without coming across an article or advertisement about sustainability, but there is precious little information about how supply chain planning[...]

10 December 2019

Supply Chain Predictions 2020: Uncertainty Demands Resilience

Supply Chain Predictions 2020: Uncertainty Demands Resilience

It’s been an interesting decade for supply chain: just when you think things can’t get any crazier, a new extreme weather event, political drama or[...]

26 November 2019

Powered by State Resources, Chinese Companies are Advancing

Powered by State Resources, Chinese Companies are...

Will a Chinese company become your biggest competitor by 2025? This fall ToolsGroup was pleased to attend our Nordic partner Optilon’s annual Supply Chain Conference.[...]

14 November 2019

Common Pains of Outdated Forecasting and Inventory Planning

Common Pains of Outdated Forecasting and Inventory...

13 November 2019

What You Missed at the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit

What You Missed at the Gartner Supply...

Last week was the exciting inaugural kick-off of the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit. If you were there, you likely sensed the electric atmosphere in[...]

30 October 2019

Four Ways Blockchain Will Transform Supply Chain…and Beyond

Four Ways Blockchain Will Transform Supply Chain…and...

Public ledgers dating to the Italian Renaissance may help us see the potential of today’s blockchain technology for data accessibility. I chuckled today at the[...]

15 October 2019

Understand the Three-Part Lifecycle of Your Promotions to Maximize Profit

Understand the Three-Part Lifecycle of Your Promotions...

The anticipation, the demand curve and spending patterns during the promotion, and the post promotion periods all require unique logic with machine learning to keep[...]

Infographic: Digital Transformation in Supply Chain Planning

Infographic: Digital Transformation in Supply Chain Planning

Digital transformation is a radical rethinking of how an organization uses technology, people, and processes to improve business performance. But even with the wealth of[...]

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Sales & Operations Planning Software S&OP provides the critical link between inventory, customer service and business performance by enabling cross-functional planning and bridging the gap between strategic planning and operational execution.

Promotions Planning Software Promotions Planning gives cross-functional teams the visibility to synchronize demand shaping campaigns and promotions with supply chain operations ensuring that inventory is in the right place to meet demand on a daily basis, right down to the store level.

Production Planning Software Production Planning provides unparalleled visibility, insight and control of the entire production lifecycle to improve efficiency and quality control, and service demand.

Inventory Optimization Software Inventory Optimization factors in multiple planning variables and probabilities to generate an optimal multi-echelon inventory plan for every item in a portfolio to achieve target service levels.

Allocation and Replenishment Software Allocation and Replenishment automatically calculates optimal inventory levels for both existing and new items to create a phased, time-series plan that achieves target service levels even in the face of demand variability and distribution complexity.

Demand Planning & Sensing Software Demand Planning & Sensing automates the creation of demand plans using machine learning and by incorporating detailed short-term demand signals and demand collaboration, it reduces forecast error and optimally deploys inventory.

Planning as a Service Planning-as-a-Service provides business-focused, technology enabled resources to help customers quickly achieve value from their SO99+ implementation. It accelerates time-to-value over a traditional implement and learn approach.