P
lanning Interview
Create the forecasting
and planning experience
you want with DSX
Manufacturing & Logistics IT spoke with Demand Solutions’
president Bill Harrison about the recent launch of DSX – the company’s
new Supply Chain Planning software product, combining greater
scalability and flexibility with ease of use and analytic sophistication.
where they are outsourcing manufacturing on turning items that might be sold at a rate
a more global scale. But when it comes down of, say, four one month, none the next and
to it, regardless of company size, many more twelve the next month, why not remove some
companies now require more technology- of the bias out of the scenario and forecast
based software with robust functionality.” for these items based on what’s likely to
happen over a three-month timeline.”
Bill Harrison: A three-and-a-half-year
Forecasting in multiple
development path to DSX.
time units in the same Three-click advantage
database
s previewed in last October’s Harrison pointed out that, with DSX, Demand
A
edition of Manufacturing & One state-of-the-art feature of DSX is an Solutions also wanted to make the user’s
Logistics IT, Demand Solutions engine that allows the user to forecast for experience of the software as simple and
has now officially launched DSX, any time unit – whether weeks, months or convenient as possible through offering
featuring a state-of-the-art quarters – for any item, all within a single a very simple and convenient navigation
forecasting engine and suite of tools that database. With DSX, users don’t have to methodology. “We knew that when people
allow users’ own business expertise and consider all types of goods within the context visit a website they want to be able to get
specific requirements to be incorporated into of a uniform time unit. Demand Solutions’ to the information they need within three
the demand plan. Demand Solutions’ Bill Bill Harrison commented: “For example, if clicks or they may decide to leave the site,”
Harrison explained that the solution re-write companies have a number of high-volume explained Harrison. “So, we set about
process first began some three and a half items they might want to forecast these ensuring users of our new software could
years ago, when Demand Solutions observed weekly. For standard items that just need to get to where they want to go in three
a growing number of companies needing be replenished, they may want to forecast clicks or less. We were adamant that they
more technology and flexibility in their these monthly. And when it comes to slow- shouldn’t need to navigate through more
chosen software product. “Many than this amount of panels.”
small- to medium-sized and
medium- to enterprise-level DSX makes advanced
companies have IT requirements filtering, segmentation and
that are more complex than they analysis capabilities available
used to be,” said Harrison. “For so that planners can drill
example, where they have down to any level of detail
worldwide supply chains and and focus on the most
profitable opportunities.
Planners can see as detailed
DSX Forecast Management
allows users to make more sense
information as they want in
of their data by customising their
DSX by drilling down into the
own user interface and work
environment. Furthermore, it
data; for example, by item,
enables forecasting in any time customer, region and
interval – weeks, months,
distribution centre. This
quarters – in the same database.
visibility allows planners
to focus on areas of the >>
22
MANUFACTURING
&LOGISTICSIT March 2010
www.logisticsit.com
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52