Smoothie? Desktop?is a powerful yet affordable forecasting solution for your desktop. Start with spreadsheet data, then migrate to Cloud Smoothie? or the Smoothie? Server when you’re ready to expand into inventory optimization or capacity planning, automate, or add other team members.
Forecasting & Demand Planning on your Desktop
Smoothie Desktop?combines Pivot Forecasting? and data-based demand management with advanced demand planning functionality like support for promotions, variable price/cost conversions and planning in alternative units of measure.
Path to Excellence
Many companies will be fully satisfied with the Smoothie Desktop solution, but a key advantage over other alternatives is that you can easily migrate to any Demand Works server solution, enabling a low risk and inexpensive ramp-up to world class sales and operations planning. Not only can the planning models themselves be easily migrated, but integrations created with the desktop version can also be re-used with Cloud Smoothie? or the Smoothie? Server.
“After a little over a year, we were able to reduce inventories in the boxed cards product line by 65 percent, down from an average of about 2 million units to 700,000. We were also able to maintain in-stock service levels of over 98 percent, which is important because of the demanding characteristics of many of our channels.” — Senior Planner, DaySpring
“We are impressed with the scalability of the program as well as the ease of use. The learning curve during implementation was very short, and it helped to improve fill rates and reduce on-hand inventory by over 15%.” — Vice President, Blue Buffalo Co.
“It only took about a month to switch from our ERP’s S&OP system to Cloud Smoothie and our planning immediately became more agile. For example, it helped us to identify and quantify the growing importance of Amazon’s marketplace and we were able to make improvements in the way we planned for that channel in about a week. Previously, these types of changes would have required IT prioritization and took much longer to implement. Now, we can add new key customers or channels in no time flat, and without diluting our IT resources.” — Sr. Supply Chain Mgr., Shimano
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