Steelwedge Software

Using Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) to Manage through Uncertain, Recessionary Times
With rapidly increasing frequency, customers and prospects are asking us for assistance in improving their S&OP process.  When we ask the question "why now?" the answer is consistent - in a supply contrained world -- balancing suppy and demand and reviewing business strategy were not central issues.   In a world of volatile demand and unpredictable margins, however, S&OP ...

How to Choose S&OP Software (Sales and Operations Planning Software)
AMR and Gartner have both recently documented the fact that global manufacturing companies using SAP or Oracle are increasingly choosing Steelwedge as their S&OP software.  The Steelwedge Sales and Operations Planning software solution is offered as Software as a Service (SaaS) as well as for on-premise deployment.  Steelwedge's newest offering ...

SAP Customers Selecting Steelwedge Software to Meet their Sales and Operations Planning Needs
Leading SAP customers are increasingly selecting Steelwedge to meet their business planning needs -- citing that Steelwedge is the easiest-to-use, quickest-to-implement, and most powerful S&OP and performance management solution available. They state that only Steelwedge offers the flexibility, functionality, agility and power they require. Steelwedge was also recently named as ...

Steelwedge Software Announces Sales Planning and Performance Management (SPPM) Release 5.0
SPPM Release 5.0 provides localization for up to 20 languages, expanded capabilities for external collaboration with customers and suppliers, and integrated sales pipeline opportunity forecasting Steelwedge Software announced today a new product release 5.0 for its Sales Planning & Performance Management (SPPM) solution. Steelwedge SPPM release 5.0 expands on ...

Tuning Your S&OP Engine
How’s your business engine running?  Use Steelwedge Strategic Services to help tune your S&OP process & drive improvements If you’re like most people, you drive your car nearly every day.  You’re very familiar with how to operate your vehicle and navigate your way.  But do you know what’s happening under the ...

S&OP Reporting: Key Requirements and Best Practices
S&OP continues to be the Holy Grail for manufacturing companies pursuing break through financial and operational performance.  One of the key requirements for any successful S&OP process is reporting and analytics.  While many technologies are available to provide flexible reporting, few applications are available that embrace Out-of-the-Box reporting and dashboards ...

Integrated Business Planning: The Final Frontier for Sales and Operations Planning
We welcome Noha Tohamy of AMR Reaserch on August 26 for our next Best Practice Leardership Forum Web Seminar.  Hope you can join us as Noha summarizes the results of the resent study where Steelwedge has been identified as the Pure Play S&OP vendor.  For more information and to register simply click the ...

Working Together: Bottom Up and Top Down Forecasting
An effective S&OP program depends on solid, accurate demand forecasts.  Best practice companies do three things well:  statistical, top-down and bottom-up forecasting.  Many companies are doing one or two of these, but few are doing all three well.  Of course, some companies do none.  Let’s just say these companies have ...

Leveraging the Power of SBOMs
The concept of a Planning Bill of Material (PBOM) has been around for many years to manage the relationships between independent and dependant demand items.  Planning BOMs are used to forecast demand for components and options available for configured products.  For example, a configured laptop may have an option for ...

Integrated Business Planning–Linking Operations to Finance
Integrated Business Planning is poised to become the next big thing beyond S&OP. One of the key themes for IBP is linking Operational Plans to Financial Plans.  This linkage enables companies to understand how financial budgets and assumptions can impact operational plans and execution and visa versa.  One of the fundamental requirements for linking ...