Furniture Start-up MYCS Selects NetSuite To Expand Business

MYCS, a Berlin-based start-up for customizable furniture, has quickly and easily expanded its business to France, Switzerland and the UK. Oracle NetSuite has enabled MYCS to take advantage of the cloud to gain a single view into key business metrics across its entire operations, streamline business processes and rapidly set up local operations in new markets. To support strong demand and ensure the best possible customer experience, MYCS wanted a cloud-based IT system that could automate manual tasks, help it manage complex sales and warehouse processes and scale to support its international expansion. After careful evaluation of different IT systems, MYCS selected NetSuite.


“We wanted professional process management that could scale and grow the business and facilitate expansion into other countries,” explained Nico Gronwald, Operations Manager & ERP Product Owner, MYCS. “NetSuite provides us with the means to control processes remotely. I am master of my own system. Even for users without any IT knowledge, NetSuite offers simple administration.”


With NetSuite, MYCS has been able to take advantage of localized solutions, ranging from country-specific reporting and audits to the automatic adjustment of currencies and the adaptation of regional tax regulations, to quickly and easily expand into new countries. In addition, by taking advantage of a cloud ERP solution, MYCS has had the flexibility to easily relocate warehouse operations and adapt its product portfolio to local requirements. In the long term, MYCS has further plans to expand into other European countries.


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The purpose of the supply chain is to deliver value, in the form of product and services, to the customer. The supply chain has resources – plants, warehouses, people, skills, inventory, etc. – that it employs to achieve this objective. Planning and coordination of the resources to meet the goal takes place in a process known as Sales and Operations Panning or S&OP for short.

A simplified S&OP process works like this:

1. A new forecast update (based on the latest sales data) is reviewed and modified to become a preliminary demand plan.
2. The supply planning team prepares a production plan that will make and distribute enough product to satisfy demand.
3. Supply and demand teams meet to work out a “best” plan that makes effective use of resources to satisfy expected demand.

This likely will involve some compromise in order to reach a decision that is overall best for the company and its customers. Often, the S&OP work is presented to the company’s functional executives – the heads of sales and marketing, production, materials, engineering, finance. The executive S&OP decision makers typically come together to review any updates to the plan, commit their respective departments to the plan, and make the hard decisions that involve compromises, commitments of funds or resources, or strategic matters. This limits the amount of detail involved,  keeps the process manageable, and focuses on volume.

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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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