The ability, in the longer term, to have the right product, in the right place, at the right time for either the end consumer or your customer is what we want to achieve. A. Demand Solutions is used in a variety of manufacturing and distribution companies throughout the world. We have customers with as few a 1,200 items and as many as 348,000 SKUs. A. Implementation is a fairly easy process. It involves importing demand data into the application, testing for validity and then training the demand managers on the application.
All implementations are different.
Normally we have a system up and running, with personnel trained, within one week after the import of the demand history is completed. That is rather difficult to say. That means locating exceptions that can cause excess inventory, items that are out of stock and those with abnormal forecasts. There are tools within the software to assist in locating those situations. But within short order, a company should experience forecast accuracy improvement and identification of trouble spots.