NexInfo _ Vanguard Webinar

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How To Use DEMAND PLANNING Software To Improve
Service Levels, Customer Loyalty, and Your Top
Bottom Lines

• March 21, 2019

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Presenter Information
Name Melody Benabou, NexInfo Experience
Expertise Melody has 20 years of technology
sales experience and possesses a wealth of
software sales and services knowledge. She
focuses on developing service excellence via
application of best practices coupled with
implementing state of the art on-premise and
SaaS software packages.
Name Brian Lewis, Vanguard Software Experience
Expertise Brian is EVP at Vanguard Software.
He has 15 years of experience in business
forecasting and planning, supply chain
management, and advanced analytics. Brian
previously held positions at Ford Motor Company,
UPS, and Providian Financial. He has a Ph.D. in
operations research and supply chain analytics
from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Who Is NexInfo?

• SUMMARY
• Consulting company focused on helping clients
  achieve Operational Excellence via an optimal
  blend of Business Process Software consulting
  services
• Deep domain expertise, including Integrated
  Business Planning (IBP/SOP), Enterprise Resource
  Planning (ERP), Product Lifecycle Management
  (PLM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM),
  Enterprise Planning Management (EPM), Human
  Capital Management (HCM), Predictive Data
  Analytics, Security, Business Transformations
• Founded in 1999 and managed by computer industry
  business process professionals
• Clients include emerging companies and Fortune
  1000 corporations
• Recognized in the industry, including features in
  Gartner Reports, The Silicon Review (50 Smartest
  Companies of the Year 2016 and 10 Fastest Growing
  Oracle Solution Providers 2017), and CIO Review
  (100 Most Promising Oracle Solution Providers
  2015)
• PARTNERS
• CORPORATE INFO
• HQ in Orange County, CA with offices in Redmond,
  WA, Chicago, IL, Bridgewater, NJ, Dublin,
  Ireland, Chennai Bangalore, India
• Operations across the United States, Europe
  (Ireland, UK, Switzerland, Belgium) India

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About Vanguard Software

• Founded in 1995
• Specialists in business forecasting and planning
  systems
• 20 years of RD into combining analytics with
  intuitive workflows
• 3,400 customers in 68 countries
• Customers range in size from 50M to 50B
  typical is 2B

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Agenda

• Demand Planning Introduction
• Demand Planning with Vanguard Software
• Software Demonstration

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Defining Different Functions
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Where Does Demand Planning Fit Industry
Challenges
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Unified, Collaborative, Process-Centric Planning
UHIOdb Unified High-Performance In-Memory Object
database supports a unified data model across all
plans.
Advanced Analytics Combining analysis and
insights to detect trends, patterns, seasonality,
outliers, and events for more accurate forecasts.
Collaboration Hub Broadcast message, search, and
hashtags are all supported by the built-in,
actionable, collaboration feed.
Workflows Easy-to-configure, process-centric
workflows enable harmonious, goal-based efforts.
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Probabilistic Planning
Turn uncertainty into profit

• Hedge your bets against the most uncertain demand
  variables, capitalize on low risk scenarios
  optimize your inventory overall.

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Real World Results

• According to AMR Research, best-in-class planners
  see
• 15 reduction in inventory
• 17 stronger perfect order fulfillment
• 35 shorter cash to cash cycle times
• 90 fewer stockouts than competitors
• Vanguard customer example
• Buy Auto Parts saw a 20 reduction in inventory,
  while maintaining customer service levels and
  increasing their top line revenue.

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DEMAND PLANNING Demonstration
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QA
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