Toolsgroup
Chain in Cape Town

supply chain, inventory optimization, demand forecasting, service level, toolsgroup.

For more than 20 years, we have partnered with companies who want to break through their supply chain and business performance barriers. We can accelerate your business performance through enhanced demand analytics and supply chain planning software. Our solutions model the demand signal so that you master demand volatility and achieve outstanding service levels. If you are ready to stop settling, we are an innovation partner to help you plan your supply chain differently. We’d like to help leverage your data to improve forecast accuracy and increase supply chain performance. It supports highly intelligent decision-making, combined with ease-of-use and dramatically improved planning productivity. We are successfully deployed at more than 300 customers worldwide in more than 44 countries and we have one of the highest customer retention rates in our industry. Our experience includes manufacturers, wholesale distributors and retailers in a wide range of demand and inventory-driven industries. FIAT had unmanageable inventories and one of the lowest service levels in the European automobile industry. Businesses complexity is growing, driven by multichannel marketing, the growing influence of demand shaping (media, promotions, new product introductions), and the impact of internet buying behavior. Short and hard-to-predict product life cycles can make it important to master New Product Introductions (NPI) demand planning. Maximizing production processes and manufacturing resources requires a fully integrated approach that goes beyond trying to stitch together individual solutions. Traditional demand planning relies mostly on transactional data, creating latency between customer needs and supplier reactions. So understanding demand and updating supply in a fast-changing environment means incorporating new data sources. The Supplier Collaboration Hub (SCH) is a web-based portal for publishing the company’s supply plan. It is a visibility and collaboration platform for enhanced planning with suppliers across the extended end-to-end network. Unlike many VMI solutions, our VMI Replenishment communicates the demand signal to vendors, allowing them to optimize their inventory planning process accordingly.