Product Suite

5.11 Tactical – Tactical Sales Forecasting

As a producer of tactical gear for police, firefighters, and military personnel, California-based 5.11 Tactical continues 20% growth trend year over year with demand planning benefits from implementing Forecast Management and Requirements Planning.

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Summer Infant Uses Requirements Planning to Cope with Exponential Growth

Summer Infant, a manufacturer of baby products from Rhode Island, overhauls its supply chain management practices, reducing inventory by 20% and shortening forecasting time using Demand Solutions for better inventory planning.

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Improve Your S&OP Process: Transform Production Planning Into Integrated Decision Making

Since its inception, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) has been a vital process for managing profitability and risk. Demand Solutions Sales & Operations Planning software is a flexible, customizable system that takes the process from data collection to a dynamic plan that drives production and sales.

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Paper Island Optimizes Store-Level Replenishment using POS Data

U.K. greeting card company Paper Island uses POS data and VMI (vendor managed inventory) for more than 700 retail customers. The greeting card and giftware manufacturer increased sales by 30% with Demand Solutions Retail Planning.

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Interface FLOR Refines Supply Chain Collaboration

Australian “green” carpet tile design leader Interface FLOR grows five fold and is on track for zero environmental impact by 2020 using collaborative planning from Demand Solutions.

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Certified Transmission Achieves Production Planning Efficiency with APS

Certified Transmission reduces stocking levels by 30% using Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS). The application selects the transmission types needed to replenish inventory and matches jobs to the appropriate rebuilders while increasing production planning efficiency.

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Our Company

About Demand Solutions


Since 1985, Demand Solutions has been offering demand planning software for the full spectrum of supply chain management and inventory planning. Our products are affordable, easy to implement, easy to use and deliver fast ROI.

Our products enable companies to:
  • Increase forecast accuracy through better forecast management
  • Allow for collaborative planning and forecasting
  • Improve supply chain collaboration
  • Improve fill rates
  • Increase inventory turns
  • Reduce inventory
  • Increase customer satisfaction
  • Drive the Sales and Operations Planning (S & OP) process
  • Unlock working capital
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White Paper Offers

Manage What Matters: The Pareto Principle, ABC Analysis and How to Manage by Exception


What does supply chain management have in common with Ryan Howard and Albert Pujols?

Download this actionable whitepaper, with the seven steps required to run and regularly update your ABC Analysis rankings and ten innovative tips on how to apply ABC Analysis to manage what matters, to glean insights into a key aspect of inventory planning and supply chain management.

In this white paper, we’ll show you how a very select group of baseball players share the ability to change a game with one swing of the bat. In one typical season, just 25 players smashed 31% of the 2,373 home runs that were hit by National Leaguers. The same can be said for your inventory. How many items account for the majority of your sales?

The idea that 80% of an event’s effects come from 20% of its causes is known as the Pareto Principle (named after Vilfredo Pareto). The 80-20 rule applies to many realms, including baseball and your supply chain management practices.

View this and other articles in our Whitepaper Library.

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DS Magazine

DS Magazine 2012


DS Magazine 2012
In this issue:

Cover - GoldCity Shoe kicks spreadsheets to the curve in favor of supply chain management software from Demand Solutions.

Other stories: Demand Solutions customers including 5.11 Tactical and Summer Infant achieve improved inventory planning using Demand Solutions Forecast Management, and Demand Solutions streamlines demand planning with DSX. Also included in this issue – Friendly’s Ice Cream Corporation, Furmano Foods, Volpi Salami and Hagen Pet Food.

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DScover Conference:

2012 Customer Summit:
Registration Now Open


DSCover Demand Solutions Customer Conference

Demand Solutions history of fun and informative customer gatherings continues with this year's Demand Solutions Customer Summit in Washington, D.C. The 2012 event will feature product information, supply chain management best practices and market trends – register now!

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