Quintiq

DELMIA QUINTIQ DEMAND PLANNERThe accuracy of your demand forecasts depends heavily on two key factors: The thoroughness of your data and how well that data is used. DELMIA Quintiq Demand Planner enables the collection and intelligent application of huge amounts of data from multiple sources. The result? Higher quality forecasts for better service, higher revenue and lower inventory.

ACCURATE DEMAND FORECASTING FOR TOP BUSINESS VALUE

How closely does this reflect your demand planning process?

The new demand planning cycle starts with a review of last month’s performance. While global numbers indicating total sales are relevant to overall performance, zeroing at the product category level identifies a gap; the positive trend of one category was underestimated. The disparity is automatically flagged and the relevant demand planner is assigned the task of correcting and closely monitoring forecasts for this product category.

In the meantime, the central demand planner collects, cleans (to eliminate inaccuracies and fill in gaps) and analyzes data at a level relevant to your company; identifying trends for particular products, features, sales channels and markets. Your planner also receives automatic notifications from the product team about portfolio updates. This month’s updates reveal that a new product will be ready-for-market in January, and two new features are now available for another product.

By now there is a huge amount of information to work with, including historical data, high level marketing figures,

portfolio updates, and external factors (global market trends, GDP growth, exchange rates – even weather forecasts, if relevant). Your planner applies statistical and machine learning to generate an accurate statistical baseline. This baseline includes projected sales for new and updated products, with an initial forecast based on trends for similar items.

Next, the DELMIA Quintiq Demand Planner dynamic classification capability automatically generates to-be-reviewed action points for high-margin products and customers. The review will be conducted by regional experts, leveraging their customer and market knowledge to create forecasts that deliver the highest business value.

The final step of this collaborative process improves the forecast even further by incorporating external inputs from channel partners, suppliers and distributors.

And there you have it: A highly accurate, updateable forecast to guide optimal production planning.

A SOLUTION THAT TRULY UNDERSTANDS DEMAND PLANNING

Data analysis and classificationNo matter how powerful your demand planning system, if it depends on the manual input of data, you run a high risk of human error. In fact, with such systems, it often happens that only a small amount of the data used in forecasting is correct. This sabotages your chances of obtaining an accurate forecast before the demand planning process has even begun.

DELMIA Quintiq Demand Planner includes algorithms that automatically ‘clean’ your input data, ensuring that the numbers are accurate and complete. It then segments your data to the user’s or system’s specifications, enabling planners to apply the most suitable forecasting processes and algorithms to that cluster. For example, say that your portfolio consists of hundreds of products. Your team cannot possibly spend time forecasting for each one individually. But if you cluster products according to the value that their sale will bring to your company, you can leave automatic planning to lower priority products and

DELMIA Quintiq Demand Planner provides the most accurate forecasts with a combination of:

concentrate your efforts on improving the forecast for more important products.

Collaborative forecasting Different departments have specialized knowledge as well as access to different types of data. DELMIA Quintiq Demand Planner encourages and enables users to work together, providing visibility, enabling input from multiple sources and aggregating information to reach a consensus and generate a single plan. This level of collaboration is made possible thanks to DELMIA Quintiq Demand Planner’s attribute-based forecasting approach and powerful aggregation and disaggregation capabilities. These empower users with full visibility and editing control and ensures that coherency and real-time propagation are maintained by the system. Collaboration is further enhanced by the solution’s workflow management functionality. This enables users to push activities to other users (by sending reminder emails, creating tasks, using the solution to forward activities, etc.) for timely action.

Demand Planner overview of actual sales and consensus forecast

Auto-clustering result overview

Product and sales event management Sales events and promotions are an inevitable, regular element in retail, and they have a profound impact on forecasting. Whether it’s the launch of a new product, a discount, a free gift or promotion limited to particular sales channels or markets, DELMIA Quintiq Demand Planner incorporates this information into its calculations. An in-built functionality enables planners not only to create and manage individual sales events, but also to see their impact on other forecasts.

Another reality of the retail industry is that products have increasingly shorter lifecycles. There are always new items in production ready to cannibalize demand for end-of-life products as soon as they enter the market. By integrating with your PLM and production planning solutions, DELMIA Quintiq Demand Planner keeps your margins high and inventories low.

Integrated workflow support to enhance collaboration

Collaboration in real time In an industry where supply and demand are fundamentally linked, company-wide transparency is crucial to smarter and faster decision-making as a team. DELMIA Quintiq S&OP is a single solution that supports real-time collaboration between departments in your company. Users have visibility of all business processes and access to relevant information, including supply chain parameters such as resource capacities and financial costs. They are immediately notified when changes occur at any stage of a process.

KPI-based planning Central to all DELMIA Quintiq solutions is KPI-based planning: The ability to measure the impact of planning decisions against your business goals before you commit to them. This is a powerful capability when you realize that the common alternative for gauging performance is the hindsight or ‘post-mortem’ approach — in other words, after the plan has been implemented and it is too late to make changes.

DELMIA Quintiq Demand Planner is configured to a customer’s unique specifications, and this includes defining KPIs that reflect your overall business goals. A glance at any forecast tells you immediately whether they meet, surpass or fall short of your target sales, inventory, etc. The solution also puts the planner in charge, enabling them to tweak any plan when, as so often happens, there’s a trade-off between benefits.

Powerful statistical and machine learning support

What-if scenariosShould you run promotion A (two for the price of one) or promotion B (buy two, get one free)? Is it wiser to launch a new product in April or December? If market growth is only 2% rather than the projected 3%, how will that impact sales? Unrivalled in the market in terms of speed and flexibility, DELMIA Quintiq’s what-if scenario planning capabilities enable you to generate multiple forecast plans and test them against one another. By evaluating each scenario’s outcome, your planners determine the best alternate plans to meet and even exceed expectations for sales and revenue.

Machine learningDELMIA Quintiq Demand Planner comes equipped with its own set of unique machine learning algorithms. This enables the system to recognize value in data, identify trends and continuously improve on forecasting. As time progresses, your DELMIA Quintiq Demand Planner depends less on manual input. Instead, it offers your planners progressively better support by anticipating and suggesting improvements.

WHY DELMIA QUINTIQ?

Gartner recognizes DELMIA Quintiq as the fastest-growing supply chain company among the top five in the industry. More and more organizations are relying on our technology, people and approach to solve their demand planning challenges. Here is why:

Optimization that works in the real worldThe DELMIA Quintiq optimizer remains unmatched in the market, having broken over 100 records in the world’s toughest optimization puzzles. This same technology powers the planning systems for all our customers who, with a single click of a button, can optimize hundreds of thousands of operations. In local applications, the technology enables customers to optimize sourcing, distribution, production and inventory. Globally, it optimizes the entire supply chain, insulating it against risk and preparing for any eventualities.

Proven track record Worldwide, leading manufacturers rely on DELMIA Quintiq to improve demand forecast accuracy. Among customers who use DELMIA Quintiq Demand Planner are:

A leading supplier of solutions and services for electrical installations in residential, commercial and industrial buildings, Hager Group uses DELMIA Quintiq Demand Planner to improve demand forecasting accuracy for 60,000 products across 30 market segments.

NXP Semiconductors (NXP) is a top player in innovative, high-performance mixed signal solutions. With over 60 years of experience and operations in over 35 countries, NXP drives innovation in the secure connected vehicle, end-to-end security and privacy, and smart connected solutions markets.

Danone is a leading food and beverage company with products sold in over 120 markets and global sales reaching €24.7 billion in 2017. Its production site in Rotselaar, Belgium, employs 500 people and its products are distributed to 12 countries from a nearby distribution center.

With operations in 24 countries and boasting a revenue of €358 million in 2017, Lindstrom is one of Europe’s leading textile service companies. Its wide range of products includes everything from workwear, protective equipment, mats, restaurant and hotel textiles to industrial mats and towels.

100%-fitWhat forecast cycle would you like to put into place? How do you want to define the collaborative workflow? Which decisions would you like to be automated and what is better left in the hands of your planners? DELMIA Quintiq Demand Planner reflects your industry’s standards and best practices as well as your company’s specific requirements.

Fast implementation DELMIA Quintiq in-built data-driven configuration enables rapid deployment of your bespoke solution. Guided by an accelerated approach called the express DELMIA Quintiq Project Lifecycle (eQPLC) methodology, our team works with customers to implement a solution that is ready to go live in a matter of months.

Robust integration DELMIA Quintiq Demand Planner can be implemented on its own, but customers often choose to extend their solution by combining it with other DELMIA Quintiq products, including Company Planner, Macro Planner, Logistics Planner and Workforce Planner – or with Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE® platform to get full digital continuity from design and product lifecycle management to planning. Being SAP- and Microsoft-certified, DELMIA Quintiq Demand Planner can also be easily integrated into your existing IT framework or with solutions from a different vendor.

Significant ROI DELMIA Quintiq solutions are proven to deliver ROI within 6 to 12 months of going live. A phased implementation ensures incremental returns at every stage, with improved forecasting, better collaboration and higher margin sales.

Our 3DEXPERIENCE® platform powers our brand applications, serving 12 industries, and provides a rich portfolio of industry solution experiences.

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