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    IBM Sterling Order Management

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AIBM now owns and supports Sterling Commerce products (since August 2010), the most notable product being IBM Order Management. The platform emphasizes order promising and fulfillment and provides tools to adaptively complete orders specified to customer demands.N/A

    Sage Inventory Advisor

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASage Inventory Advisor is a cloud-based inventory management solution designed to help manufacturers, distributors, and retailers that takes as little as 30 minutes to implement, and is accessible on a mobile device.N/A
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
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    Inventory Management
    Comparison of Inventory Management features of IBM Sterling Order Management and Sage Inventory Advisor
    Feature
    IBM Sterling Order Management
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    Ratings
    Sage Inventory Advisor
    7.7
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Inventory tracking00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Automatic reordering00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
    Location management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Serial number and batch tracking00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Automation rules00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Reporting and analytics00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Bill of materials management00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Item kitting00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Invoicing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Forecasting00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Accounting integration00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IBM Sterling Order ManagementSage Inventory Advisor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
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    Usability
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    IBM Sterling Order ManagementSage Inventory Advisor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    It's perfect for medium to large retailers
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    Sage
    As we are selling products in multiple countries, we need multiple warehouses. Many apps out there is very much limited to one warehouse per account, but here we can track multi-warehouses so its really suited for our company and future scalability. It gives us clear advantage on forecasting, we can now prepare well for stockouts, and safety stock levels, it reduce cost for us from overstocking, thus giving us real ROI
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Centralizing data.
    • Instantaneously updated data.
    • Ad hoc reporting.
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    Sage
    • It gives us detailed metrics of product sales performance
    • It gives us graph of sales forecast too
    • It provides table with multiple customizable columns to activate for us to see important details
    • It also gives a lot of filter options for us to be able to see priority items for attention
    • It helped us create weekly and monthly reports that give us chance to plan ahead
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    Cons
    IBM
    • RCP Based deployment
    • Wider variety of sourcing configuration
    • Product Documentation
    • COM Features need to better so that Customer case handling is facilitated
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    Sage
    • It still has some room for improvement, there's no option for custom formula
    • We cannot also create a product barcode within the webapp
    • Although PO label is possible, its just CSS and HTML, which is not friendly for team mates who usually manage it
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    The package of Sterling Order Management / Sterling Store / Sterling Call Center works very well and it supports the expansion to Geographies like US/EU/JP/China, some of hottest markets for e-commerce.
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    Sage
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    Usability
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    Sage
    Although it helped us to reduce cost, and help our company to save time and money in making sure we are monitoring all of our products, avoid overstocking and avoiding stockouts, just like other apps out there, there is some room for improvements for the app - first, its too expensive for small teams, second, there are times some glitch in SKUs that are on both warehouses, it has less flexibility in custom reports, and customized barcode creation
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    Warehouse Management System which is mainly focussed on warehouse fulfillment but not on the routing and availability tracking
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    Sage
    We used Prediko before for few months to a year, and its visual is stunning, but its a startup company by that time and the development is slow. The integration is also barely limited at that time. Although in terms of prediction - its cheap alternative is already great for accurate forecasting of stockouts, how many and how much to order for replenishment, colorful warnings and notifications and simple reports. Its more cheaper than Sage Inventory Advisor, but we still chosen Sage Inventory Advisor because of how many functions Sage Inventory Advisor could offer, namely customizable reports, multi-warehouse options (not possible on Prediko) and easy integration to our apps for warehouses.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • Optimal inventory management resulted in more orders per minute and good ROI and customer experience
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    Sage
    • It reduced our warehouse storage cost as we can now plan ahead more accurately only buying what is needed
    • It helps us save time in organizing our datasets, thus our time is now revolving more on product sourcing rather than too much time in forecasting
    • We can now have a 3D view of our historical records and future scales, thus we can now more atleast near accurately predict future sales giving us data driven decision making easier
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