Fully supported, integrated
within application |
Partial support and heavy
manual effort required |
Not supported |
Spreadsheet-based solutions |
Traditional planning solutions |
Alloy Planning |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Core Planning Functionality | |||
| Automatic, POS-driven demand forecasts and plans | |||
| Near-term and long-term inventory plans | |||
| Linked demand-inventory plans | |||
| Continuous planning with up-to-date sell-in and sell-through data | |||
| Weekly order recommendations, optimized for supply targets, minimum order quantities, and lead times | |||
| Plan Management | |||
| New Product Introduction (NPI) and Product End of Life (EOL) planning | |||
| Promotion and events planning | |||
| Annual operating plan and internal forecast comparison | |||
| Visibility into granular demand data | |||
| Easy plan overrides that automatically update connected data flows | |||
| Implementation | |||
| Out-of-the box forecast models | |||
| Default planning hierarchy selection | |||
| Customizable forecast model selection down to a partner SKU | |||
| Pre-built connectors to hundreds of retailers | |||
| Usability | |||
| Sense and adjust quickly to market and supply chain changes | |||
| Build trust by aligning teams on a single source of information | |||
| Maximize planner impact by freeing time from manual, low-value tasks | |||
| Cross-functional alignment and consensus on plans | |||
| Complete visibility to up-to-date information | |||
| View and analyze plans at any level of granularity | |||
| Automatically export plans | |||
| Automated data collection (supported sources) | |||
| Retailer portals | |||
| DTC channels (E-commerce and brick & mortar) | |||
| Distributors | |||
| EDI 852 (Product Activity Report) and EDI 846 (Inventory Report) | |||
| EDI 856 (Shipment Notification) and EDI 860 (PO Change) | |||
| Historical data files | |||
| ERP (master data, orders, shipments, inventory, forecast, plans, network map) | |||
| Data harmonization | |||
| Product master management customized to reflect your hierarchy | |||
| Product ID matching across internal and retailer codes | |||
| Cross-retailer POS and inventory analytics | |||
| Flexibly model different time granularities and fiscal calendars | |||
| Comprehensive network mapping, including location coding, shipment lanes, lead times and more | |||
| Platform | |||
| Connected planning and execution experience | |||
| Cloud-based | |||
| Unlimited user seats included | |||
| Single source of truth for sales, marketing, supply chain operations and planning | |||
| Included Client Solutions support and training | |||
| Innovative product roadmap with continuous upgrades |