Training

The Executive S&OP meeting at supply chain-centric companies is the culminating event in the S&OP process that is typically preceded by Demand & Supply consensus and Pre-S&OP reviews. Logility’s IBP solution enables and automates this key process. For immature supply chain organizations, this can take days of manual spreadsheet compilation and manipulation. Your company’s senior leadership will have timely accurate supply chain data to enable key strategic decisions. You will learn:

• Key advantages of having a high-level long-term view of your future supply chain plan
• How to leverage Scenario Planning
• How you can review Waterfalls to determine what changed
• How identifying future variances using alerts enables proactive decision making

This session addresses how to close the gap between an assortment vision and building an optimal assortment that supports financial planning, store planning and business strategies. This session will discuss how to manage the lifecycle of the of the assortment from initial vision through financial reconciliation and allocation processes leveraging the fully integrated capabilities of Logility Retail Optimization™. You will learn:

• How to use a digital inspiration board to set the groundwork to build a visual for the assortment and update it during the buying process
• How to determine the appropriate level to localize product mix
• How to create a “shopping list” for initial buys
• How to reconcile to financial targets
• How to utilize the strategy and details of the assortment plan to drive the allocation of product when it is available

This session provides an overview of the complex integration challenges solved by Logility Voyager AdapLink™. You will learn:

• What is Voyager AdapLink
• What challenges does it solve
• What are its key features
• How is it typically deployed

Learn how DS customers are using DS to help them manage unique supply chain challenges: product lifecycles of less than one week; suppliers on boats subject to weather and harvest restrictions; changing consumer tastes; product substitutions based on harvest quality and dictated by customer contracts. Using DS, these enterprises handle daily buying patterns, manages frequent new product launches, and adjusts BOMS to account for day-to-day adjustments in product quality. In this session you will hear more about the challenges these customers face and how they continue to meet their service goals.

This session will demonstrate the capabilities of Logility Voyager Solutions™ global supply chain views combining a holistic picture of demand, future orders, inventory on hand and projected over a chosen horizon. A key principle of capacity planning, matching demand to supply, stresses the importance of making choices. It’s necessary to match overall portfolio demand with capabilities and capacity supplied by existing teams in the short-term while shaping both the demand and supply sides of the portfolio for the long-term. You will learn:

How to create a holistic view of your supply chain plan
The value and perspective of seeing your supply chain data at a 10,000 foot level
How a graphical picture of your supply chain can point out the obvious!

This session covers some exciting new frontiers that are now part of the Voyager solution suite. Machine learning is often talked about, but is now a reality in the Voyager solution. Move from the possible to the reality of machine learning by automating your forecast tuning process utilizing the tournament model concept. Also move from the paradigm of monthly or weekly forecasting to daily forecasting using Demand Sensing!

You will learn:

• How Machine Learning can improve forecast accuracy and automate your forecast tuning process by using the “Tournament Model”.
• How Demand Sensing can leverage your daily sales data to create a daily forecast to improve short term forecast accuracy.

Advanced Analytics stands at the core of Logility Voyager Solutions™, and driving performance is core for any company. This session provides basic training for implementation of the Advanced Analytics and Performance Management functionality and will demonstrate:

• Developing the home page
• Deploying standard exceptions
• Deploying custom exceptions
• Finding information in the database tables to support custom exceptions
• Running alerts across multiple databases

If you are new to Logility Voyager Inventory Optimization™ this session is for you. This session will introduce you to using Voyager Inventory Optimization. You will see how Voyager Inventory Optimization can help your organization gain insight into the uncertainties inherent within your demand and supply networks, position inventory at certain points in your supply chain to maintain optimal service levels and minimize the impact of uncertainty, and design alternative supply chain strategies. You will leave the session with a clear understanding of:

• Multi-echelon inventory concepts
• Key drivers and uncertainty
• Service level optimization
• Benefits of multi-echelon inventory optimization

This retail optimization session will help you understand how to streamline distribution to stores leveraging the size optimization capability of Logility Voyager Allocation™. This session will discuss how to optimize size by store, how to ship and replenish to stores based on size selling, and how to continually update size optimization based on store performance. You will also hear how to leverage Work Up Buy and pack optimization to improve the efficiency of the purchasing process for replenished products and initial buys. You will learn:

• Approaches to improve replenishment to stores based on size optimization
• How to leverage Work Up Buy functionality to impact size runs on purchase orders
• How to accelerate distribution by optimizing size packs considering vendor constraints
• How to build optimal size packs for each store to increase operating efficiency

Tap into the industry-leading, award-winning capabilities of Logility Voyager Solutions™ utilizing our SaaS or hosted deployments. Logility Cloud Services can help you avoid challenges associated with traditional supply chain deployments. Gain peace of mind by having a planned approach for smooth and easy implementations and upgrades. Some of the advantages:

• Faster implementation
• Expert system management
• Private cloud to secure your data