AspenOne Supply Chain Management vs. Netstock

Good for large organizations but can be used across various industries from manufacturing to even medical. Also very Citrix publishing friendly to allow multiple users located anywhere to use AspenOne Supply Chain Management across the organization while consolidating their data in a centralized secure place. This ability to consolidate and centralize applications and data within the same facility makes migration, high availability in DR scenario easier to configure as well.

Incentivized

Based on our experience qith Netstock, there is no more excuses to stick with old, inefficient methods to manage and optimize inventory and purchasing. For us, Netstock pays itself and then some with all the time and guesswork we save. Nowadays, technology solutions are a must to stay ahead of the competition.

Incentivized

• Provides a wealth of data and information interpreted across management and supply chain team located at various offices and plants globally
• Implementation was with relative ease with small dedicated team. Implementation time was also quick from launch to go-live in three business quarters.
• Excellent technical support from AspenOne and their tier support is knowledgeable on the product.
• Good bug fixes and quick support along with predictable update release schedule.

Incentivized

• Global visibility , added value for stock assisstance
• Areas that need attention are displayed on the dashboard with option to drill down if required
• With more than 5000 different SKU it is difficult to keep track of all activities related to each SKU, the process is simplified with the help of this tool, everyone has access to the right information.

• While AspenOne Supply Chain Management generate a wealth of data and information, the ability to organize and create reports can be time consuming as well as steep learning curve.
• While incremental updates are predictable, AspenOne major version updates can be difficult to implement with wide user impact causing more downtime than we prefer.
• Report merge and legacy version conversion tools can be made easier to use with more GUI (graphical user interface) options and less command base as well as status progress graphic and confirmation of completion would be very helpful.

Incentivized

• Supersession designation of item by region - Each market is different, having the ability to assign a supersession item specific to each mark would be nice feature
• User report creation, ability to create custom reports utilizing existing fields within the Netstock environment without the need to approach Netstock and have the ability to schedule the report creation. (Similar to Analytics functionality)
• Option to be able to view all "AI" opportunities for a given location with a single click, currently you need to click one by one to see all the opportunities.
• Ability to limit comment creation based on user permission, currently regardless of the read of write permission a user can apply their comments to all locations by selecting the "To all locations" check box.

AspenOne Supply Chain Management was a cheaper alternative to SAP HANA and while as not feature-ful and not as easy to integrate with SAP data, the interface was easy enough to configure without the need for HANA. It was also easier and quicker to deploy and implement which alleviated our business pain point. It's like an old saying the best software is the one you can use, now! Our management and supply chain team members have been happy with the product and very few complaints arise from the production usage or performance.

Incentivized

i didnt shop around because Netstock had what we needed and it was going to work well with our old and our new accounting systems.

Incentivized

• We needed AspenOne Supply Chain Management quickly back in 2013 since our biggest pain point was tracking movement of products and ability for multiple departments and locations to access the information to complete their responsibilities within the organization. Was able to successfully implement in three quarters for go-live.
• Since our initiation implementation our two major version upgrades did not go as smooth as we would like causing downtime of user access and the system does not have flexibility to run previous version while upgrading to new version. Upgrade path needs to improve to minimize downtime.
• The business reported quick ROI of better than expected results and the software paid for itself in under three years which beats projection.
• Centralized implementation makes disaster recovery (DR) configuration easier to manage.

Incentivized

• We have vastly reduced the amount of safety stock that we used to hold
• Our stock holding value is within a manageable figure for the size of our business
• We can monitor our poor performing suppliers so we are confident when placing purchase orders

Incentivized