Steelwedge Launches Next-Generation S&OP Technology Platform with New Mobile, Analytics and Big Data Capabilities. For more Information on S&OP, visit http://www.steelwedge.com/resources/s-and-op-intro

1. Steelwedge Launches Next-Generation S&OP
Technology Platform with
New Mobile, Analytics and Big Data
Capabilities

2. Steelwedge, the leading provider of cloud-based
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
solutions, today announced the availability of its
latest release here, at the largest industry conference
for supply chain executives. The new Steelwedge
solution is targeted to help global manufacturers
more quickly and accurately make supply/demand
tradeoff decisions in the face of continual market
change.

3. “The world’s leading manufacturers are recognizing
that increasingly complex, interdependent
businesses—and the plans built to manage them—
will only survive with better agility and resilience
built into them,” said Glen Margolis, CEO of
Steelwedge. “This agility comes from a potent
combination of company-wide insight and systems to
put that insight into action.

4. This release of our planning solution with cloud-
powered analytics, apps and high performance
throughput of big data is designed to help our
customers better out-maneuver market volatility and
drive growth.”

5. The Steelwedge spring release extends the
value of the company’s integrated business
planning platform in three ways:

6. New: Steelwedge S&OP Insight: Complex Data.
Delivered iPad Easy.
Now, the rich cross-functional data collected in the
Steelwedge planning system is aggregated, analyzed
and presented in top-line dashboards for iPads or
smart phones as well as online and Excel-based
dashboards and reports.

7. With Steelwedge S&OP Insight, corporate leaders can
review real-time aggregated summary content across
divisions, geographies, hierarchies and units/dollars
anytime on their mobile devices. With a dozen pre-
configured best-practice metrics, Steelwedge S&OP
Insight makes it easy to pinpoint exceptions and
business KPIs for further focus.

8. Powered by the industry’s only planning analytics
engine, Steelwedge S&OP Insight combines online
analytics and planning to deliver rich contextual
planning intelligence in a fraction of the time of any
other approach on the market.

9. Industry analysts acknowledge that S&OP analytics
are sorely needed to drive better, faster planning
decisions. Many supply chain analysts note that
there is a substantial separation today between
operational data and S&OP planning. By
contrast, Steelwedge is putting analytics into the
center of customers’ supply chain performance—
where it needs to be.

10. New: Steelwedge S&OP Apps Architecture™: Adopts
“Orphaned” Processes; Adapts Planning Your Way
Often, competitive advantage comes from the way a
business is run—and the unique processes and KPIs it
sets for itself. These could range from new product
prioritization to inventory segmentation parameters.

11. Traditionally, there has been no way to include those
special processes in an automated planning solution.
Now, customers and partners can develop their own
apps, built directly on the Steelwedge platform for
seamless integration with the powerful
demand, supply, partner collaboration and executive-
level S&OP data that is captured in its single solution.

12. Based on customer demand, the company is also
offering a set of pre-configured apps those for
demand policy, segmentation, and stocking strategy.
Click here for more information on these apps and
the Steelwedge S&OP Open Apps Architecture.

13. New: Big-Data-Enabled Foundation. Faster
performance for faster decisions
Steelwedge has invested in technology infrastructure
to extend the cloud-based platform’s power to
quickly process massive amounts of data –anywhere
in the world– faster, for better decision-making on
critical planning issues.

14. Steelwedge customers tasked with
tracking, managing and analyzing up to billions of
planning details–from SKUs and components to
suppliers and customer transactions–benefit from
the newest technology enhancements delivered
through the cloud without incurring the significant
incremental infrastructure costs they would have
with an on-premise S&OP solution

15. The recent Steelwedge infrastructure upgrades
encompass investments in the following areas:

16. Storage: Faster reporting and analytics and faster
planning (overrides and aggregation)
Network: High throughput, low latency, quality of
service and failover. Rapidly transfer large files with
minimal latency

17. Edge Caching: Faster performance for remote users
Memory and CPU: In-memory add-ons support
columnar indexing of data and fast “what-if” analysis

18. Blake Johnson, Stanford University consulting
professor and founder of range planning company
Aztral, said: “The big data tsunami is at the front of
every business, supply chain and educational
discussion.

19. To create business value with it, however, it must be
integrated with a company’s core processes and
accessible to the people who manage them.
Steelwedge’s approach to integrating data and
enabling analytics is industry-leading, and is driving a
sea change in S&OP.”

20. Founded in 2000, Steelwedge is the leading
Integrated Business Planning solution provider.
Steelwedge’s cloud-based Sales & Operations
Planning (S&OP) software solutions connect
people, process and technology to power a single
view of a company’s business.

21. In a volatile global business environment, that single
line of sight powers reliable "what if" scenario
modeling that pinpoints the financial impact of
supply-demand trade-off decisions. Some of the
world's largest discrete and process manufacturers

22. including Jaguar Land
Rover, Sony, Lenovo, MetroPCS, and Emerson trust
Steelwedge to help them mitigate risk and rapidly
adapt to global economic, political and
environmental change through best-in-class S&OP.
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