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Valtitude formerly known as Demand Planning LLC provides specialized consulting for Demand Planning, S&OP, Sales Forecasting, and Supply Chain Optimization.

Valtitude was founded by ex-Gillette/P&G Senior Managers in 2004 as Demand Planning Net. Our initial focus was to help companies with implementing process and strategy for Demand Planning and Sales and Operations Planning. Over the years, we have grown to help many Fortune 500 companies and SMB businesses in the end-to-end supply chain transformation process.

We have helped a variety of businesses across industry verticals create value through SCM analytics and diagnostics, process re-design, solutions implementation, and customized on-site training.

We have clients from across different industries - Pharmaceuticals, CPG, High-Tech, Food and Beverage, Quick Service Restaurants, Utilities, Oil and Gas, Aerospace, Chemicals, and Industrial Manufacturing, Automotive, Financial Services, Publishing, etc. Our clients include some marquee Fortune 500 names such as Pepsi Foods, Abbott Labs, Honeywell, Facebook, Qualcomm and others who seek us for our niche in the area of SCM transformation.

Our consulting expertise includes Operations Forecasting & Planning, Strategic Forecasting, Financial Planning & Budgeting, Inventory Optimization, Production Planning, and Detailed Scheduling.

Through our unique diagnostics methodology, we help clients understand the specific business and organizational factors that inhibit the formation of a holistic Demand and Supply Management process. With the diagnostics as the foundation, we help you transform the business process with the right technology. We also undertake full-scale System Integration projects that include SAP, Oracle, JDA, Kinaxis.

Valtitude offers some mid-market solutions for SCM including PlanVida and Vanguard SW.

What we define as usability consulting helps our clients to better use their advanced planning tools for Demand, Inventory and supply chain optimization. Founded in 2004, the company is headquartered in Boston and has offices in India, China, and the UK.

For more information, on our consulting services visit

 https://valuechainplanning.com/consulting-details

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Beyond ERP Reports And Excel Spreadsheet

Is there a well-confirmed correlation between demand visibility and corporate profitability? Almost all organizations with better demand planning and demand visbility with proces agility to handle different market scenarios flourish and thrive.

Despite this, many organizations still hold on to conservative approaches like Excel spreadsheets and ERPs. Since demand planning is a key process that can provide stability to the supply chain amidst turbulent and volatile market conditions, it is crucial to choose the right tool for forecasting - a tool that not only utilizes historical data but also analyzes market intelligence to bring out a better estimate of demand.

So how do you evaluate a demand planning solution? There are a number of factors to consider before choosing the right software:

1. Always find a tool that aligns with your organization's requirements. Invest in solutions that offer a wide variety of functions that you will actually use rather than ones that advertise premium features that you will never need. The latter usually costs more and consumes time and energy to implement. Your demand streams and drivers are major contributing factors to understand the kind of solutions that you are looking for. For example, the ability to forecast at various levels, seamless integration with ERP and feasibility to include causal factors, amongst other features.

2. Understand the scalability of the software and focus on how the requirements of your organization will evolve over time and assess how easily the software can accommodate these changes.

3. Focus on High-Value Add features that improve the quality of your demand planning process. Go for solutions that go beyond just dumping incomprehensible forecasting numbers.

4. Explore solutions that provide strategic insights to analyze the forecast in addition to exception planning and ensure that they align with your KPIs.

5. Make sure that the tool has the capability to generate and customize reports and dashboards based on your organization’s needs with minimal manual interventions post-implementation.

6. Ask the solution provider if they can allow a trial of the product or a demo with a sample of your data to see if the solutions fit your organization's demand profile. Doing this will help you get a good grasp of how the software contributes to the improvement of KPIs and ROI.

Now most organizations and people live on the cloud. Cloud-based solutions minimize your IT footprint and also reduces your time-to-implementation.

Learn more about how Planvida Analytics Cloud suite can help you check all these boxes and much more.

Visit for more information- www.valuechainplanning.com

www.demandplanning.net

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PlanVida is a sophisticated cloud platform - advanced planning integrated with big data analytics; and features our reputation for Usability.  

Planvida can leverage all your data in detail - POS, inventory, archived plans, costs and margins to provide the best plans and forecasts  

- Powerful planning engine

- Quick and Easy implementation

- Insightful Analytics

Link - 

https://valuechainplanning.com/planvida/The-PlanVida-Story

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Top 7 Demand Planning Metrics

Link - https://demandplanning.net/demand_metrics.htm

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Demand Planning, S&OP, Supply Chain Management Workshop

Workshop Link - https://demandplanning.net/demand_planning_workshops.htm