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Lenovo Chooses Steelwedge Integrated Sales and Operations Planning Solution

Pleasanton, CA, February 13, 2012 – Steelwedge Software, Inc., the leader in cloud-based Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) solutions, today announced that Lenovo, the world’s second-largest PC manufacturer, has selected Steelwedge to power its global integrated business planning process. Lenovo plans to deploy Steelwedge Software as part of a strategic initiative to tightly align the company’s supply chain with dynamic market conditions and strengthen collaboration across its product management, supply chain and sales functions. The company believes this new system will enable it to continue its dramatic business growth, which has seen the company expand faster than its major competitors for over two consecutive years and rise from number four to two in the global PC industry in 2011. “The new integrated business planning system, with Steelwedge software as a key part of the IT foundation, will allow us to more effectively synchronize our supply chain with market demand, while scaling our global business more efficiently and profitably,” explains Jon Pershke, vice president, Business Transformation/IT, Global Supply Chain, Lenovo. “We are confident this project will make our supply chain even more agile and responsive to changing customer needs and market conditions”. “World class growth organizations, like Lenovo, understand that effective business planning is no longer a static annual event, but a collaborative ongoing orchestration uniting key operational
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The Perfect Storm is Forming for Sales and Operations Planning

The Perfect Storm is Forming for Sales and Operations Planning
And at the eye of the proverbial storm: Global Supply Chains and the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes that drive them. I wrote about some of these dynamics in a blog earlier in the year (2012 Supply Chain Predictions: Is the End of the …
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Oracle Named Worldwide Leading Supplier of Supply Chain Planning Solutions by
Oracle delivers SCP capabilities through its best-in-class value chain planning applications, including Oracle's Demantra Real-Time Sales and Operations Planning, Oracle's Demantra Demand Management, Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning, …
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Steelwedge Appoints Mark Tisdel as CFO
PLEASANTON, CA, Apr 17, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Steelwedge, the leader in cloud-based sales and operations planning (S&OP) solutions, announced that Mark Tisdel has joined Steelwedge as the company's Chief Financial Officer.
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One Network Enterprises Introduces Markets first Demand Driven S&OP


Dallas, TX (PRWEB) January 27, 2012

One Network Enterprises (ONE), a leading provider of demand driven supply chain solutions in the cloud, is introducing the markets first multi-party Demand Driven Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), Financial Planning and Executive Analytics solution.

Organizations having implemented S&OP today continue to struggle with the limitations or traditional software applications and business processes that do not effectively plan sales and operations across organizations within the enterprise and across their trading partners. To overcome these challenges, ONE is delivering a state-of-the-art demand-driven sales and operations planning (DDS&OP) solution, that aligns goals across the multi-party, multi-echelon value network to help organizations and their trading partners improve their financial plans, revenues, reduce operational costs, and effectively meet their customers needs.

ONEs demand-driven S&OP links S&OP plans to your multi-year strategic initiatives to account for the attainment of desired goals. Furthermore, it uses a single sales forecast at the forward most echelon to derive sales and marketing, distribution, production, procurement and financial plans. The single sales forecast can be shaped jointly with your partners providing a single version of the truth (SVOT) within the enterprise and across trading partners. Once the demand has been shaped and agreed upon the system generates order forecasts for each organization and each node in the multi-party, multi-echelon value network, including multi-tier raw material providers. Based on these orders forecasts, the system calculates distribution, transportation, production, and procurement plans, matches demand and supply, computes and bi-directionally propagates all capacity constraints, and synchronizes the plans for the entire network. ONEs real-time incremental planning and execution capability seamlessly puts the plans in action generating detailed, actionable short-term plans to the execution systems.

Most importantly, ONEs demand-driven S&OP delivers a Directional P&L that analyses profitability based on the revenue plans and operations plans for organization to fully understand the effect of their plans. The objective function of DDS&OP is to maximize the revenue and profit subject to the actionable operations plans for all parties in the value network.

“S&OP inherently is a multi-party, multi-echelon activity. Traditional systems can take months to compute and propagate plans across the value chain. One Networks DD S&OP solution does it in a matter of hours or days engaging seamlessly with all internal and external operations. One Network has proven repeatedly that increased business agility is the key to achieving impressive results,” said Greg Brady, One Networks CEO.

Gaining deeper insights and becoming demand-driven through ONEs DDS&OP enhances an organizations ability to effectively manage the complexities of the modern supply chain, offering a superior alternative to traditional systems.

To schedule a demonstration, call us today at (866) 302-1936 or visit us at http://www.OneNetwork.com.

About One Network Enterprises

One Network is the worlds only multi-party, multi-echelon supply chain solution in the cloud. As the leading provider of demand driven supply chain technology solutions, One Networks cloud-based platform enables customers to easily collaborate with all their value chain participants on a single network. With more than 7,000 companies connected, One Networks community based supply chain solutions help customers increase profitability and efficiencies by optimizing their supply chain operations. One Network serves a variety of industries including high tech, retail, consumer products, public sector, automotive, energy, and logistics. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, One Network also has offices in Europe and India. For more information, please visit http://www.onenetwork.com.

Media Inquiries Contact:

Contact: Sobia Ahmed | Phone: 972-455-3596 | Email: Sahmed(at)OneNetwork(dot)com

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New White Paper – How to Leverage Longer Planning Horizons in Sales and Operations Planning / Integrated Business Planning


New London, NH (PRWEB) February 24, 2012

Oliver Wight Americas, Inc. has released its newest white paper, How to Leverage Longer Planning Horizons in Sales and Operations Planning / Integrated Business Planning.

George Palmatier and Colleen Crum, Oliver Wight principals with decades of practitioner experience, share their insights into improving Sales and Operations (S&OP) Planning and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) by applying a rolling planning horizon of 24 months or longer.

The authors contrast S&OP backward-looking reporting and analysis with the dynamic advantages of IBP, which applies decision-supporting orientation based on future-focused scenario planning. Palmatier and Crum provide an executive overview of IBP and then outline why moving to a longer planning horizon is a natural step when transitioning from S&OP to IBP.

The paper explains how implementing longer planning horizons with IBP more effectively integrates operational and financial management. Palmatier and Crum detail why longer planning horizons with IBP provide greater visibility and early identification of gaps between the annual bottom-up plan and top-down strategic goals. This vital data empowers the leadership team to take timely action to close the gaps and more easily adapt within a volatile global economy.

About Oliver Wight

Oliver Wight Americas – thought leaders and hands-on practitioners for over 40 years. As a global business management consulting and education firm, the company specializes in helping organizations work smarter, faster, and better than their competitors. Its principals are seasoned professionals who have real-world manufacturing experience and transfer this knowledge throughout an organization, providing tools to help organizations internalize that knowledge and achieve a competitive advantage in the marketplace. The largest world-wide consultancy of its type, Oliver Wight has offices throughout Europe, North and South America, and the Asia/Pacific Region. For more information, please visit http://www.OliverWight-Americas.com.

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