Name: Red Wing Shoe: Big Strides to the Future Supply Chain
Uploaded: 2016-05-02T14:25:07.000Z
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Description: Red Wing Shoe: Big Strides to the Future Supply Chain

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Logility has proven to be an effective tool for managing demand and controlling inventory, according to user experiences. Demand and inventory teams have successfully utilized the software to handle forecasting tasks and streamline inventory control processes. Customers have reported improved forecasting accuracy and optimized inventory levels as a result of using Logility. In addition, the software has been praised for its ability to enhance supply chain visibility and planning, reducing stockouts and overstock situations. Users have found Logility valuable in improving demand planning, meeting customer demands efficiently, and making more informed decisions regarding inventory management. Overall, Logility has been recognized as a reliable solution for effectively managing demand and controlling inventory.

Detailed Forecast Management: Many users have praised the software's ability to allow them to go down to a very detailed level in managing forecasts effectively. This feature has been highlighted by several reviewers, indicating that it is an important aspect of the software for users.

Easy Maintenance and Control: Reviewers have mentioned that the software is easy to maintain and control when it comes to forecasting. This positive feedback suggests that the software offers a high level of flexibility and customization, enabling users to make necessary adjustments easily.

User-Friendly Interface: The user-friendliness of the software has been consistently mentioned by reviewers. They have noted that it has an intuitive interface, making it easy to navigate and perform tasks efficiently. This positive attribute enhances the overall usability of the software and contributes to a positive user experience.

Lack of Profile Customization: Some users have expressed dissatisfaction with the product's inability to create different profiles for different seasons without adding another module. This limitation hinders their ability to efficiently manage and adapt their settings based on changing needs.

Manual Work Required: Several reviewers have mentioned that they would like the product to automate more tasks, reducing the need for manual work. They feel that the current level of manual effort required is time-consuming and could be streamlined for a smoother user experience.

Limited Features: A number of customers have noted that they feel the product lacks certain essential features. This feedback suggests that there are specific functionalities missing which may restrict users from fully utilizing the product's potential and meeting their unique requirements.

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With more than 1,300 customers worldwide, Logility is a leading provider of collaborative supply chain optimization and advanced retail planning solutions that help small, medium, large, and Fortune 500 companies realize substantial bottom-line results in record time. Logility Voyager Solutions™ is a complete supply chain management and retail optimization solution that features advanced analytics and provides supply chain visibility; demand, inventory and replenishment planning; Sales and Operations Planning (S&amp;OP); Integrated Business Planning (IBP); supply and inventory optimization; manufacturing planning and scheduling; and retail merchandise planning and allocation. Logility customers include Big Lots, Fender Musical Instruments, Husqvarna Group, Parker Hannifin, Verizon Wireless, and VF Corporation. Logility is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMSWA), named one of the 100 Most Trustworthy Companies in America by Forbes. For more information about Logility, call 800-762-5207 USA or visit <a href="https://www.logility.com/" rel="">https://www.logility.com</a>.

Online Retailer Snap AV Prospers with Synchronized Supply Chain Planning

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Bob Bowman of SupplyChainBrain sat down with Evan Flinn of SnapAV, a revolutionary, technology-enabled B2B supplier of intuitively designed products for professional integrators in the custom AV markets to discuss how Logility Voyager Solutions has helped them overcome inventory and supply planning challenges such as those caused by the Chinese New Year. 

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Complete Transcription Below:

I'm speaking with Evan Flynn, Senior Demand Planner with SnapAV. Evan, welcome.

Thank you, glad to be here.

Tell us a little bit about SnapAV.

Well, SnapAV, we're a company that's about 10 years old. We're a web-based retailer of audio-visual electronics equipment, and we sell direct business-to-business. So all of our customers, about 9,000 in total, are small businesses throughout the country that then go to the final location of where our products are going to be installed and do the actual installations.

So you're web-only?

Yes.

Is that right?

Yes.

So you're cognizant of all the challenges of the internet age but you don't have kind of the legacy aspect of having been around before that.

Correct. Yes.

What would you describe as your major business challenges today?

I mean, we implemented our software probably about a year and a half ago, so it's just really getting to that maturity level from being a specifically spreadsheet, macro-planning company to one that understands and utilizes the capabilities of the systems that we recently installed. Recently, our biggest challenge was with Chinese New Year and being able to plan intelligently. Because in the past we had some misses where it was-- one year we planned inefficiently and the next year we were over-bloated with inventory. So finding out our technology and the ways that it works in order to really solve that problem was our first big task last year when we got Logility set up.

So that was the trigger, so to speak, of why you needed to get away from the manual, totally-automated. Because you just were not hitting the target in either direction.

Correct. I mean, we're a rapidly growing company, and we're getting to the scale where processes that we had before weren't working, so we needed something to better ourselves.

I'm curious as to what you would tell Logility at the beginning as to what it is you really needed from them.

Just end-to-end planning and end visibility within our supply chain, something that we-- our products are very unique in the sense of one speaker doesn't sell the same as another, so being able to have the customizing of a statistical forecast within the demand planning realm, but also wanting to have different inventory triggers from an inventory planning standpoint, and then eventually, placing the order. So we do use several different modules, and I would say that just the overall end-to-end visibility to the supply chain is something that we were lacking before and what we'd be looking to fix with the technology.

Anytime you switch over from a manual to an automated system, there's always a challenge of how to flip one switch off and flip another one on. I'm wondering if that transition presented you with any challenges.

Honestly, not as much as you would think, and I was kind of surprised with it too, being one of my first go-lives that I experienced. But we were at the point where our implementation was moving along so smoothly that maybe a month or two before our set go-live date of March 1, 2014, probably late January we were able to start relying on some of the information from our new technology to where we could start to wean ourselves off of it. It wasn't the only thing that we had, but we had six weeks of being able to play around with live data and not breaking anything before the actual go-live date. It was more seamless than I could have imagined.

So this system has enabled you to actually reduce inventory in the system?

Yes. As I mentioned, I was talking about Chinese New Year. When we launched in March 2014, about 33% of our inventory was deemed excess above what our forecast would dictate. We've reduced that in about a year and a half by 13%, so I think we're around 18, 19% typically, and we're trying to work down to a 2015 goal of 15% excess inventory.

Well, it sounds like you've got some pretty ambitious plans for the future. And as a young company, you've achieved a remarkable amount of success in such a short time. Evan, thanks very much for being with us and telling us the story of SnapAV.

Yeah, no problem. Thank you for having me.

I've been speaking with Evan Flynn of SnapAV. Thank you very much for watching.

Red Wing Shoe: Big Strides to the Future Supply Chain

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Hear how Red Wing Shoe Company, a leading purpose built footwear and workwear manufacturing and retail company, specializing in work and outdoor products leveraged Logility Voyager Solutions™ to meet its ever changing business needs and rapidly expanding product portfolio.

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Complete Transcription Below:

I'm joined today by Mallery Dosdall, Demand Planning Manager with Red Wing Shoe Company. Mallery, welcome to the program.

Thank you for having me.

Tell me a little bit about Red Wing.

Red Wing Shoe Company was founded in 1905. We just celebrated our 110th-year anniversary. Big deal in our small, little town of 15,000 people. We've been manufacturing footwear for that entire time. We have multiple brands. We manufacture Red Wing; Works; Irish Setter, so if you're a hunter you may know that brand; the Vasque footwear, more outdoor trail running, hiking; and then we have a heritage line which is more fashion-forward, premium USA-made product. About 10 years ago, we got into the workwear, protective personal equipment industry. Selling flame-retardant or fire-resistant coveralls and shirts to protect the oil and gas workers. So we offer a head-to-toe solution. We're sold in the United States as well as internationally. Very vertically-integrated, which makes Red Wing Shoe Company a unique place to work, being that we own and run a tannery in Red Wing, Minnesota. We manufacture our own shoes in Red Wing, Minnesota, as well as Potosi, Missouri. And we have company-owned retail stores located throughout the US.

Now, technology has got to be an enabler for you in meeting some of these challenges. Talk about how you've done that and specifically in the case of Logility. What were you looking for in that particular solution that would be relevant to the issues that you raised?

So we were looking for a solution that wasn't just going to solve our needs today, but really something that could bring us to 2020. So everything we're doing right now is vision 2020. How are we going to get from today to then? When we decided on Logility about five years ago, it offered the solution of real-time data at your fingertips. We were used to running on spreadsheets and seeing information once a month and that was it. Making decisions literally within one day. We now can modify and tweak and massage the data using parameters for forecasting. We have ABC analysis that we've implemented with our inventory optimization. So we don't carry the same stock on every single SKU in our portfolio. It's more tiered, which is logical and makes more sense. Let's be right on the right product. Also, since we were getting into that workwear, we needed something that we could adapt and mold and modify, if needed. And Logility offered that solution for us.

Where is your inventory? What's your distribution network look like?

So we have distribution around the globe. We have two warehouses in the United States. A distribution center in the Middle East. One in Europe, one in Japan. And then we have acquired a company in Scotland, about two years ago, to support our oil and gas industry.

What do you expect to be spending most of your time on in the years ahead? What's on your plate for future application, future solutions, future challenges, for that matter?

Logility upgrades are definitely on top of line. You know, getting things more web-based and just hearing kind of the new technology that they're working on. IBP being a key big player. Our executive team is very involved in our current tie up process and [intrigued?] with what Logility has to offer with the IBP platform.

Integrated Business Planning?

Correct. Yes.

Okay. Just wanted to make sure we got our acronyms right.

Yep, yep. We're on the same page. So there's that. And then just wowing our customer. So it's doing the small things behind the scenes to improve the service to our customers. Because at the end of the day, it's all about what's best for our customer and our consumer.

Well, here's to another hundred years. Mallery, thank you so much for being with us, telling us the story of Red Wing Shoe Company. 

Thanks.

Thank you for having me.

I've been speaking with Mallery Dosdall of Red Wing Shoe Company.

Supply Chain Planning

Integrating the activities of different parties throughout the supply chain, and monitoring external and internal conditions that may affect the production of goods.

Custom alerts

Real-time alerts of supply chain activity such as shipping status or problems.

Scenario-based planning

Software that allows users to run simulations for different scenarios, based on changes in circumstances like level of demand, in order to plan for all likely outcomes.

Resource optimization

Ability to allocate resources/materials across the supply chain in the most efficient way.

Supply forecasting

Ability to use past and current data on producers, suppliers, and international trade to predict what trends might impact supply in the future.

Capacity estimation

Ability to determine how much production capacity is needed to produce a specific product at scale to meet demand needs.

Employee allocation

Allocation of employees within supply chain operations in the most efficient way.

Supply network coordination

Improving supply chain performance by aligning the plans and objectives of each partner in the supply chain (e.g. producers and transportation and logistics).

Procurement Management

Overseeing the activities of the purchasing department of the company.

Raw material sourcing

Utilizing cost information to manage the sourcing of raw materials in the most cost effective way.

Supply market analysis

Identifying specific market characteristics for specific goods to enhance procurement strategies.

Cost analysis

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Management of a fleet of vehicles (usually trucks) used to transport goods.

Warehouse & Inventory Management

Monitoring and management of warehouse and inventory activities.

Automation of warehouse operations

Ability to automate certain warehouse tasks such as restocking.

Inventory storage

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Ability to monitory inventory levels across one or multiple warehouses.

Inventory tracking

Ability to track products through the supply chain and delivery processes using either bar codes, serial numbers, or RFID.

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Inventory and price forecasting

Forecasting price changes and future inventory needs.

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Monitoring and reporting on market demand conditions.

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Sales and operations planning

Ability to plan future sales and operations based off of current and historical data.

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Ability to track promotion campaigns (this may be used more by retailers).

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