Spring 2014 New Tech Showcase
Flowcasting
JDA Software • Launch: September 2014
Filling a Need: Flowcasting enables joint planning and collaboration between manufacturers and retailers based on sell-through demand, joint forecasting, promotions and events, supply chain planning parameters, assortments, planograms and more.
Unique Feature: Flowcasting builds on the rich capabilities both JDA and RedPrairie have brought to market in the area of end to end collaborative supply chain management. It leverages JDA’s architectural platform and adds proven scalability. Flowcasting is designed to be quickly deployed leveraging cloud technology and an intuitive user interface. Further, Flowcasting incorporates intelligent analytics that optimize on-shelf availability, provides new concepts in the area of prescriptive scenario analysis, new thinking in the areas of promotional collaboration and new item launch intelligence. Flowcasting delivers a stronger linkage to Integrated business planning within a company and joint business planning when a collaborative engagement is created between two key trading partners.
Key Users: Sales & marketing and planning teams
Expected Benefits: Benefits to manufacturers and retailers include: improve forecast accuracy and supply chain efficiency; increase on-shelf availability and customer loyalty; reduce inventory; improve product transitions and promotion effectiveness; improve speed to market and profitability.
TPM (Trade Promotion Management)
NeoGrid • Launch: June 20, 2014
Filling a Need: NeoGrid’s new TPM solution eliminates spreadsheets, and empowers your users with a cloud-based, seamless and integrated end-to-end solution for trade promotion management.
Unique Features: Welcome to the next generation — a single, easy-to-use-and-deploy, cloud-based TPM solution for your business (Sales, Marketing, Finance and Demand Planning), which provides:
Key Users: Sales, Marketing, Finance and Demand Planning
Benefits: Spend less on managing the process and more on the trade promotions.
BlueSky Post Promotion Analytics
Relational Solutions, Inc. • Launched: September 2013
Filling a Need: BlueSky Post Promotion Analytics allows customers to understand promotion effectiveness and optimize trade spend across all retail segments.
Unique Features: The trade spend solution helps consumer goods companies save thousands of man hours each month by integrating highly granular, highly disparate data that is otherwise impossible to manually gather, collate and harmonize.
Key Users: Trade Marketing Manager, Category Managers and Sales Reps
Benefits: By automating the integration of all trade spend data points (trade plans, shipments, master data and scan data), the solution is able to pinpoint areas of improvement and eliminate poorly performing trade spend programs. Relational Solutions, Inc. also gives its customers valuable insight into on-shelf availability and whether promotions were properly executed.
Velocity Demand Data Streaming (DSS) for SAP Demand Signal Management
Retail Velocity • Launched: November 2013
Filling a Need: More and more retailers are now offering store-level point-of-sale (POS) and inventory data DIRECTLY to manufacturers. Velocity DSS provides the conduit to integrate this data into SAP Demand Signal Management or any third-party solution.
Velocity DSS is an easy-to-implement, cost-effective solution for cleansing and harmonizing store-level POS and is available either as a cloud subscription service or as an on-premise implementation.
Traditionally, consumer goods organizations (CGs) have built their own adaptors from scratch or subscribed to high-priced data bureaus that layer in excessive costs. This has led to massive cost overruns causing CGs to limit their data feeds.
Unique Features: Velocity DSS provides the largest library of retailer adaptors encompassing over 300 retailers and distributors. With its out-of-the-box approach to streaming cleansed POS and other demand data, Velocity enables its CG clients to focus on taking action from the data rather than all the heavy lifting and costs traditionally associated with collecting, cleansing and transforming POS data.
Key Users: IT, SAP Practitioners, Supply Chain, Sales, Category Managers, Trade Promotion Managers, Business Insights
Benefits: Reduced out of stocks; improved execution on trade promotions and ads, improved new product launch execution, reduced demand data acquisition and cleansing costs; reduced time lag to receiving insights
JDA Software • Launch: September 2014
Filling a Need: Flowcasting enables joint planning and collaboration between manufacturers and retailers based on sell-through demand, joint forecasting, promotions and events, supply chain planning parameters, assortments, planograms and more.Unique Feature: Flowcasting builds on the rich capabilities both JDA and RedPrairie have brought to market in the area of end to end collaborative supply chain management. It leverages JDA’s architectural platform and adds proven scalability. Flowcasting is designed to be quickly deployed leveraging cloud technology and an intuitive user interface. Further, Flowcasting incorporates intelligent analytics that optimize on-shelf availability, provides new concepts in the area of prescriptive scenario analysis, new thinking in the areas of promotional collaboration and new item launch intelligence. Flowcasting delivers a stronger linkage to Integrated business planning within a company and joint business planning when a collaborative engagement is created between two key trading partners.
Key Users: Sales & marketing and planning teams
Expected Benefits: Benefits to manufacturers and retailers include: improve forecast accuracy and supply chain efficiency; increase on-shelf availability and customer loyalty; reduce inventory; improve product transitions and promotion effectiveness; improve speed to market and profitability.
TPM (Trade Promotion Management)
NeoGrid • Launch: June 20, 2014
Filling a Need: NeoGrid’s new TPM solution eliminates spreadsheets, and empowers your users with a cloud-based, seamless and integrated end-to-end solution for trade promotion management.Unique Features: Welcome to the next generation — a single, easy-to-use-and-deploy, cloud-based TPM solution for your business (Sales, Marketing, Finance and Demand Planning), which provides:
- Fund and Volume Quota Allocation
- “What If” Scenario Planning
- Promotional Event Planning with input into both Demand Planning and Financial Planning
- Volume and Funding Financial Reconciliation, including point-of-sale (POS) data integration
- System-Enabled Promotion Evaluation
- Comprehensive Management Reporting
Key Users: Sales, Marketing, Finance and Demand Planning
Benefits: Spend less on managing the process and more on the trade promotions.
BlueSky Post Promotion Analytics
Relational Solutions, Inc. • Launched: September 2013
Filling a Need: BlueSky Post Promotion Analytics allows customers to understand promotion effectiveness and optimize trade spend across all retail segments.Unique Features: The trade spend solution helps consumer goods companies save thousands of man hours each month by integrating highly granular, highly disparate data that is otherwise impossible to manually gather, collate and harmonize.
Key Users: Trade Marketing Manager, Category Managers and Sales Reps
Benefits: By automating the integration of all trade spend data points (trade plans, shipments, master data and scan data), the solution is able to pinpoint areas of improvement and eliminate poorly performing trade spend programs. Relational Solutions, Inc. also gives its customers valuable insight into on-shelf availability and whether promotions were properly executed.
Velocity Demand Data Streaming (DSS) for SAP Demand Signal Management
Retail Velocity • Launched: November 2013
Filling a Need: More and more retailers are now offering store-level point-of-sale (POS) and inventory data DIRECTLY to manufacturers. Velocity DSS provides the conduit to integrate this data into SAP Demand Signal Management or any third-party solution.Velocity DSS is an easy-to-implement, cost-effective solution for cleansing and harmonizing store-level POS and is available either as a cloud subscription service or as an on-premise implementation.
Traditionally, consumer goods organizations (CGs) have built their own adaptors from scratch or subscribed to high-priced data bureaus that layer in excessive costs. This has led to massive cost overruns causing CGs to limit their data feeds.
Unique Features: Velocity DSS provides the largest library of retailer adaptors encompassing over 300 retailers and distributors. With its out-of-the-box approach to streaming cleansed POS and other demand data, Velocity enables its CG clients to focus on taking action from the data rather than all the heavy lifting and costs traditionally associated with collecting, cleansing and transforming POS data.
Key Users: IT, SAP Practitioners, Supply Chain, Sales, Category Managers, Trade Promotion Managers, Business Insights
Benefits: Reduced out of stocks; improved execution on trade promotions and ads, improved new product launch execution, reduced demand data acquisition and cleansing costs; reduced time lag to receiving insights