Demand Solutions Increases Value with Demand Solutions SaaS

Demand Management, Inc. a global supply chain planning software company that offers tools for manufacturers and distributors to increase forecast accuracy, improve customer service levels and reduce overall inventory, recently announced its collaboration with Microsoft to deliver the Demand Solutions SaaS solution built on Azure. Demand Solutions SaaS delivers full supply chain planning functionality in a solution that’s hosted outside the corporate firewall, and relieves IT staffs of the burden of performing updates and fixes.

Demand Solutions SaaS is designed for manufacturers and distributors that want to streamline and enhance their supply chain planning processes without having to build and maintain complex IT infrastructures. With Demand Solutions SaaS, companies can gain access to the full functionality of the on-premises solution, but without making an up-front investment in software licenses and hardware.

Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, a growing collection of integrated services—analytics, computing, database, mobile, networking, storage, and web—for moving faster, achieving more, and saving money. Azure offers a 99.95% monthly SLA, automatic operating system and service patching, load balancing, and resiliency in the event of hardware failure. Azure’s integrated tools, pre-built templates, and managed services make it easier to build and manage enterprise, mobile, web, and Internet of Things (IoT) apps faster, using skills developers and IT professionals already have and technologies they already know.

To learn more about Demand Solutions SaaS and access customer case studies and white papers, visit the Demand Solutions Newsroom.

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Demand Solutions Placed Among Top Food Logistics Technology Providers

Demand Management Inc., a global supply chain planning software company that offers affordable, easy-to-use tools for manufacturers and distributors, recently announced that it has been named one of Food Logistics’ FL100+ Software and Technology providers for 2014. The listing, which has been compiled for the past eleven years, appears in the November/December 2014 issue of Food Logistics. This is the sixth year that Demand Management's Demand Solutions has be recognized by the publication. Demand Solutions is a supply chain planning suite for forecast management, demand planning, collaborative forecasting and inventory planning as well as modules for advanced planning and scheduling (APS), sales and operations planning (SOP) and point of sale analysis.

The Food Logistics editorial staff reviews dozens of applications before selecting a list of honorees. The list not only honors outstanding companies, but also serves as a valuable resource guide for the magazine’s readers. The editors of Food Logistics—the only publication dedicated exclusively to the global food and beverage supply chain—annually profile software and technology providers that hold influential roles in the global food and beverage supply chain. These companies offer products that reduce food waste, extend shelf life, facilitate safe and sanitary transportation of products, assure regulatory compliance, and deliver a host of other benefits.

“Being named to the FL100+ for a sixth time is a tremendous honor for our company,” said Bill Harrison, president of Demand Management.

To read more about the Demand Solutions supply chain planning suite, visit their website.

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Efraín Nuñez Selects Blue Ridge to Improve Profitability

Blue Ridge, a Cloud-based supply chain planning solutions provider to retailers, distributors, and manufacturers, recently announced that Efraín Nunez Inc. will implement Blue Ridge's demand forecasting, planning and replenishment solutions.

Efraín Nuñez is an importer, warehouser, and broad line distributor of bakery products for the manufacturing and retail sectors in Puerto Rico. The company also offers onsite technical service in the areas of baking, decorating, pastry, and other related areas. The company expects the implementation to enhance customer service levels while increasing profitability.

Efraín Nuñez saw strategic value in the ability to maintain and enhance world-class customer service levels. The distributor was also motivated to use enhanced demand planning capabilities in order to increase the efficiency and profitability of its supply chain planning operations. Blue Ridge solutions are configured to automatically fulfill demand in the most profitable way possible, taking into consideration current inventory, logistics costs, freight, and other factors thus allowing the business and sales team to focus on strategic objectives and fully take advantage promotions, trends and other business opportunities. By optimizing product availability, inventory, and logistics costs, companies such as Efraín Nunez can increase cash flow by 50% or more and improve sales by double-digits, while stabilizing or even reducing inventory up to 30%. In addition, Blue Ridge's solutions can be implemented in as little as 90 days and scaled to the most complex supply chains.

To learn more about the Blue Ridge implementation at Efraín Nunez, visit the Blue Ridge News blog.

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Panorama Gruppen Implements Blue Ridge Solutions To Boost Growth

Supply chain planning provider Blue Ridge recently announced that Panorama Gruppen, Norway’s dominating supplier within the jewelry industry, has selected the company’s demand forecasting, planning and replenishment technology to sustain measurable growth throughout the supply chain.

Panorama Gruppen wanted to increase cash flow and sought a Cloud-based solution that could provide highly accurate inventory replenishment projections and powerful analytics. The implementation of Blue Ridge Dynamic Demand Management technology ranges from the jewelry shelves in PG's 100+ stores to the central distribution center and back to the suppliers, creating an entirely synchronized supply chain.

PG's leadership expects the new technology to strengthen the company's bottom-line and have a profound effect on the future valuation of our firm and sees Blue Ridge's Cloud platform as a very effective way to generate cash flow relative to other alternatives. The flexibility and scalability of the Blue Ridge Cloud solution will allow the company to adjust to the challenges that come along with seasonal retailing.

To learn more about Blue Ridge, the Panorama Gruppen case study, and their supply chain planning and analytics solutions, visit the Blue Ridge Newsroom.

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Demand Management Incorporates “Always-On” Communication for Supply Chain

Demand Management, a leading global resource for supply chain management solutions, has recently announced the addition of social supply chain functionality to its Demand Solutions supply chain planning platform. The technology is designed to help manufacturers and distributors shave cycle times off such core activities as sales and operations planning.

As supply chains become increasingly global, companies often struggle to keep all stakeholders informed of the latest changes to a forecast. Demand Solutions’ Social™ Supply Chain solution – based on the popular Yammer enterprise social network – allows stakeholders to exchange information in an intuitive environment that many people are already accustomed to using on their mobile devices even during off-hours. And because the Yammer platform can automatically translate messages into 28 languages, stakeholders can easily communicate with partners in the far corners of the globe.

Demand Solutions customers include Lonely Planet, Trek Bicycle and Avery Dennison. Demand Management is a wholly owned subsidiary of Logility, Inc., which is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Software (NASDAQ: AMSWA).

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Demand Solutions Offers Common Platform Integrated Sales & Operations Planning

Demand Management Inc., a leading global resource for supply chain management solutions, recently announced its new Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) module for its DSX supply chain software that fully integrates sales and operations planning with demand forecasting and requirements planning.

The new module is designed to meet Gartner’s Stage 3 S&OP architecture requirements which call for a single technology platform including supply chain modeling, scenario planning, financial reconciliation, performance management, workflow, hierarchy management and collaboration. In addition, the DSX S&OP module features the most up-to-date forecasting available so that if needed, strategic decisions can factor in the actual forecast.

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