Demand Works Smoothie

A demand planning and forecasting software system designed with inventory planning and optimization capabilities.

About Demand Works Smoothie

Demand Works provides demand planning and supply planning software options that will increase the accuracy of your business operations. Demand Works provides three distinct core solutions to meet your planning needs, including demand planning and forecasting, inventory planning and optimization, and capacity planning and S&OP (sales and operations planning).

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Features

Demand Planning and Forecasting

Smoothie Service and Cloud Smoothie are browser-based and scalable to let your business deploy the needed functionality right away and add more on down the road. You can use whatever data sources your company has, such as spreadsheets, and import them directly into the program.

  • Automatic forecasting engine
  • Forecast at any level
  • Link items and borrow history from similar items
  • Performance management
  • Supports promotions and events
  • Scenario and role-based security
An example of a forecast produced that shows trended and seasonal items.

Inventory Planning and Optimization

Demand Works Smoothie helps you optimizing inventory investments by segmenting inventories by their forecast ability, source of supply, and what-if scenarios. Smoothie goes beyond standard deviation and root mean squared error to determine optimal replenishment policies.

Smoothie plans inventories through multi-tiered distribution channels with formulations and bill of materials.

Demand Works can suggest ordering quantities and identify shortages and overstocks.

Capacity Planning and S&OP

Sales and operations planning software will help you create highly personalized forecasts that continuously change with your levels, trends, seasonality, and other external events your company may experience. The software uses baseline forecasts, historic sales, and backlogs to give better signals to the company.

  • Generate reports to support demand and supply review meetings
  • Synchronize execution
  • Monitor supply chain performance and compare scenarios
An option module, Finite Capacity Planning, will let you connect material requirements to resources.

Pricing

The cost of Demand Works solutions will depend on your deployment model and number of users (as well as type of user).

Demand Works Smoothie Server and Cloud

  • Starts at $750/month
  • Server prices start at $15,000
  • Users are non-concurrent and will vary from power users, collaborators, or read-only

Smoothie Desktop

  • Starts at $5,000 one-time
  • $1,000 in prepaid annual maintenance
  • Desktop licenses can be exchanged for server and cloud options

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