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Analyst Coverage
AberdeenGroup: More Consolidation in SCM: Logility Acquires Optiant
August 2010
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Technology Evaluation Centers: Optiant Going to a Much Better Place
April 2010
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Logility Acquires Optiant
March 2010
Logility's acquisition of Optiant 'streamlines' the optimization market.
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Sales and Operations Planning: Integrate with Finance and Improve Revenue
Economic volatility over the past several years has been illustrated by the highly unstable customer demand, raw material, fuel, and commodity prices. Most recently, it has intensified because of the global economic recession that began unfolding a few months ago. Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is the key integrated process that the supply chain organization (specifically the VP of Supply Chain) can leverage to achieve visibility and transformation across the entire organization and the value chain. The following study highlights the result of over 220 companies participating in a survey on S&OP related initiatives. The goal of this study is to compare and contrast the view points of supply chain and finance organizations relating to S&OP processes.
Sales and Operations Planning: A Journey That's Worth The Effort
CGT partners with Logility, Inc. in order to take a look at S&OP in the CG industry.
Demand Management in Discrete Industries
Seventy percent (70%) of a total of 260 respondents to Aberdeen's survey on demand management practices in the discrete manufacturing space indicate that they have had a focused demand management program in place. In fact, 31% of companies indicate that they have had a program in place for more than four years. Aberdeen research finds that these companies need to refocus their attention towards order-to-delivery excellence as a driver for demand management rather than just concentrating on demand planning (statistical forecasting). Aspects that companies should focus on include external collaboration, customer level forecasting, and integration with order management.
The Responsive Supply Chain: Managing Market Events in the Consumer Goods Industry
The focus of this benchmark report is on the market events that impact demand. There are six key market event categories: rapid changes in customer affinity, sudden natural disasters, unforeseen contamination and disease, new product innovation, changing economic forces, and expanding international markets. These events cannot be controlled but can be effectively managed if the right processes and technologies are in place.
Demand-Driven Inventory Management Strategies: Challenges and Opportunities for Distribution-Intensive Companies
Companies across a broad spectrum of manufacturing, distribution, and retail segments are striving to be more demand driven. The demand-driven strategy of allowing actual demand to pull inventory through the company and its supply chain seems simple. However for those using traditional supply chain management practices, other corporate strategies – along with some outside forces –make it a challenge to create a truly demand-driven supply and distribution network.
Logility Inventory Management Solutions: A Fact Based Analysis
Logility Voyager Solutions is a software suite that provides demand planning, inventory planning and supply planning capabilities needed to manage inventory especially for distribution-centric businesses. A Logility customer base survey conducted by Aberdeen indicates a high degree of technology adoption and above average inventory performance benefits.
Best Practices in S&OP: A Benchmark Report
Enterprises in the post millennium era have been severely challenged by a set of irreversible marketplace factors — including shrinking profit lifecycles, demand for personalized solutions, and the rise of the distributed network enterprise — that have transformed the global competitive environment into one with fundamentally more uncertainty and risk, but also one with great opportunity. These pressures have compelled companies to redefine winning business models, processes, and technologies and have catapulted the sales and operations planning process into the single most important tactical process to manage risk and profitability.
The Demand Management Benchmark Report: Profitably Dominating Your Target Market
More than 85% of all companies that have implemented a program to improve demand management have generated significant improvements in key customer facing performance. This report from the AberdeenGroup recommends that companies take certain actions to ensure they extract maximum value from their demand management initiatives.
Supply Chain Digest Research Report: Supply Chain Execution Technology: Supply Chain Execution Technology, Making the Right Decision Between ERP and Best-of-Breed
In the past two years, the market for supply chain execution software applications such as warehouse management and transportation management has been roiled by the increasingly agressive efforts of ERP providers . . .
Supply Chain Digest Research Report: Supply Chain Planning Technology, Making the Right Decision Between ERP and Best-of-Breed
In the past two years, the market for supply chain planning software applications such as demand planning, inventory planning and production scheduling has been roiled by the increasingly aggressive efforets of ERP providers . . .
News Coverage
SupplyChainBrain: Growth at Giant Apparel Company Brings Big Change in its Forecasting
July 2010
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Complex Supply Chain and Risk Management
June 2010
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Supply Chain Standard: Plans Change
June 2010
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Private Label Magazine: Simplifying the Supply Chain
May 2010
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Lance, Growing Stronger
April 2010
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Logility Acquires Optiant for Inventory Optimization Technology
March 2010
The merger creates a more robust supply chain management offering for Logility, which will integrate Optiant’s inventory optimization software into Logility’s Voyager product suite.
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Black & Decker Reaches For True Optimization, Not Mere Calculation
March 2010
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At Kraft, cash is king
January 2010
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Jarden Consolidates Supply Chain
October 2009
Jarden Consumer Solutions (JCS) chose Logility Voyager Solutions to help provide the visibility needed to increase forecast accuracy, streamline product/ brand introductions, assess promotions and create plans attuned to market demand.
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2010 CGT Readers's Choice
June 2009
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Jennifer Hughey, A CGT 2009 Innovator
June 2009
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Consumer Driven Forecasting to Improve Inventory Flow: Brown Shoe Company's Journey
March 2009
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How to Effectively Manage Demand With Demand Sensing and Shaping Using Point Of Sales Data
March 2009
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The FSB 100 2008
July 2008
Logility named to Fortune's Small Business 100 (FSB 100) for 2008.
Sorting It All Out
February 2008
The number of SKUs will most likely continue to rise in 2008. Here are some ways to get a handle on the situation.
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Clement Pappas & Co: A Successful Voyage
February 2008
Just five months into its implementation of Logility's Voyager, Clement Pappas & Co. is already seeing substantial benefits in production planning through the system's forecasting abilities.
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P&G Takes Inventory Up A Notch
February 2008
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PowerUp: Taking manufacturing planning to the next level
January 2008
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Brown Shoe: Linking Supply With Retail Sales
January 2008
A leading footwear supplier uses POS information to adjust its in-season factory orders.
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Hurricane Planner
July 2007
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