Relex Solutions vs. SAP Integrated Business Planning

Relex can provide accurate forecasting for products with a year or more of sales history. However, forecasts for new products tend to be inaccurate.

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One of the best parts is how it is suited to global or multi-site organizations with complex supply chains. It just operates across multiple regions with various manufacturing facilities, and that too with very much ease; it is simple, solid and very reliable in terms of working when the logistics is an issue and fetches data and insights very quickly.

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• Forecasting
• Supplier selection
• Easy to use interface

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• Comfortable database, it adjusts to what we know how to use.
• The platform acts quickly, and throws metrics and analysis adjusted to the times we need, thus automating the results.
• Complete and detailed reports, we can dynamically evaluate all the information.

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• Feedback on reported issues
• Ease of making changes to business rules
• Promotions forecasting

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• Graphic visualization of high-level supply and demand at the country level, showing planning levels, and major KFs.
• The platform should be easy to use, such as showing the KF definition as an attribute and enabling trace and tracking of dependencies among KF.
• We need to enable incremental changes in metrics in different scenarios.
• Enable new features based on the base module (not newer modules like order-based planning).
• The optimizer result should show influential drivers in descending orders per metric.

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User experience has various issues, from the way to represent data on the Dashboard to complex graphical interfaces for making the right report of something that is easiest to make on other similar platforms. SAP Integrated Business Planning is difficult to integrate into other operating systems and ecosystems. Activity planning, in some cases, is confused, and access is limited if customers or end-users don´t use the platform over the internet using a desktop computer.

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Requests are always resolved, but it sometimes take long than it should take.

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The process is currently being evaluated and I'm unable to provide an accurate comparison at this stage.

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System integration: CPI DS landscape allowed to integrate with the SAP ECC and SAP S4HANA with ease. Ecosystem: As most of the systema were of SAP landscape, choosing SAP Integrated Business Planning has given a sense of confidence. Higher Futuristic roadmaps: SAP Integrated Business Planning had gen AI and AI incorporated roadmap making it more impressive.

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• Positive - Reduced "bad" stock by reducing inventory
• Positive - Accurate supplier selection

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• The biggest positive is improved forecast accuracy; now, I can work in a structured manner to reduce my costs and anticipate demand for the products.
• Now, one certain item is that the Enhanced Data Quality is helping us a lot in making quicker decisions and a faster work life.
• The sales and operations teams are aligned now in a much better manner, and work is faster.
• Planning has become easier and smoother.

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