Training

Key Features in Voyager Manufacturing Planning

This introductory supply optimization session focuses on showing you how to use Logility Voyager Manufacturing Planning and Scheduling™ to slash manufacturing planning time, and to increase throughput, and fill rates by creating production plans that support new product introductions, achieve true least-cost, least-change manufacturing, and establish realistic inventory limits across single or multiple plants. Topics to be covered include:

• Overview (representation, algorithms, outputs, integration)
• Scheduling algorithms (Infinite capacity plan, new insertion sequencing algorithm, find unit that best fits amount, assign production proportionally, etc.)
• Modeling manufacturing stages, BOMs, changeovers, and auxiliary resources
• KPI capabilities (100+ KPI’s ) and exception handling capability
• Integrate this with upstream solutions such as Supply Planning, Replenishment Planning, and downstream MES/shop floor execution systems

Quality of Plan Metrics and Model Validation for Supply Planning

This advanced session focuses on quality plan metrics and model validation for supply planning within Logility Voyager Supply Planning™. You will learn:

• Understanding the quality of the supply plan
• Using reports and metrics to validate the model
• Taking advantage of Logility Optimization Services

Getting the Right Sizes to the Right Stores Efficiently

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

Intro to Voyager Inventory Optimization

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

Supply Chain Analytics in Voyager Solutions

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

Demand Planning Mangement by Exception

This session provides an overview of the appropriate application of Management by Exception (MBE) techniques and tools that can lead to not only improved efficiency and productivity but also contribute to the bottom line. You will learn:

• Management by exception strategy
• Alerts
• Views
• Key performance indicators
• A peek Into the future

Benefits of the Andromeda Cloud Platform

NGC’s Andromeda Cloud Platform provides an essential foundation for digital supply chains. With Andromeda, users only have to access a single point of entry to get the latest information from all systems in the supply chain – demand forecasting, inventory optimization, PLM, supply chain management, ERP, materials testing, quality management, logistics and more – without ripping and replacing existing systems.

Andromeda does this by centralizing and sharing information from these disparate systems and processes, providing a unified, single-sign on platform that can access all the data within the supply chain from a single access point. Andromeda allows companies to digitize their supply chains from concept to consumer without going through the expense and pain of replacing legacy applications.

Learn how Andromeda can enable supply chain digitization and allow your company to:

• Break down enterprise silos
• Make fast, data-driven decisions
• React to changing demand signals
• Accelerate replenishment of best-sellers
• Improve profitability
• Delight your customers

Key Features in Voyager Demand, Inventory and Replenishment Planning

Whether you’re an experienced user of Logility Voyager Solutions™ or a complete novice, this can’t miss session will introduce you to several key features in Logility Voyager Demand Planning™, Logility Voyager Inventory Planning™ and Logility Voyager Replenishment Planning™. You will learn:

• The New Web Based Functionality
• Two New Forecast Models
• Logility Internal Chat Feature
• Exciting New Graphics
• Alert Escalation Feature
• Core Analytics
• Expanded Alert Library
• ABC analysis enhancements
• Statistical Arrays

Visual Discovery with Halo

In this session you will learn how to improve data visualization and access to critical metrics with the latest charts and graphs. Learn how to design views and improve your organization’s visualization environment. The session will include coverage of the following:

• Visualizing your data in an intuitive, conventional manner
• Highlighting and ordering your information based on your audience’s interests
• Testing your visualizations to ensure the story they’re seeing is the one you want to tell
• Using callouts to emphasize the information that’s most critical to your message

New Product Forecast Management

EThis demand optimization session explores how Logility Voyager Solutions™ can support various methods of planning for new product introductions. In some cases, plans can be modeled after similar previous products. In other cases, you may need to evaluate for a completely new line of business. The challenge is to create the best possible forecast. You will learn important strategies to maximize your new product forecasting:

• Collaborate first
• Technique alternatives
• Tracking the progress

Your Future Supply Chain: How to Migrate from Demand Solutions to DSX

Ready to make the move beyond legacy DS1? Join us to learn how to move as quickly as possible from DS1 to this powerful new platform. We will show you the dramatic difference in the look and feel of DSX SaaS and will also talk about how to plan your migration path and engage your IT team in the process.

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Key Features in Voyager Supply Planning

This introductory session provides an overview of the key features and functionality in Logility Voyager Supply Planning™. It will discuss the data that drives Voyager Supply Planning as well as the interactions between Voyager Supply Planning, Logility Voyager Inventory Planning™ and Logility Voyager Demand Planning™. You will learn:

• Supply planning process and capabilities
• Constraint based planning in SP
• Vendor minimum planning
• Load optimization and load building
• Voyager Inventory Planning within Voyager Supply Planning
• The typical supply planning cycle
• Evolving beyond unconstrained planning

Voyager Integrated Business Planning Overview

A useful adjunct to your company’s S&OP process, Logility Voyager Integrated Business Planning (IBP) leverages scenario modelling in memory to give fast and flexible answers to Strategic Supply Chain questions. This session will demonstrate how IBP can tie in inventory, demand and supply balancing with marketing new product information and financial information spanning as far as a 10 years into the future.

Leveraging Virtual Store Warehouse

This retail optimization session is a presentation on how to use the Virtual Store Warehouse feature in Logility Voyager Allocation™ to manage the allocation process for constrained stores, multi-tiered networks, and vendor managed inventory scenarios. You will learn:

• The flexibility of the VSW to be applied in business scenarios for Retailers, Manufacturers, Wholesalers and Distributors
• How to use the VSW feature for space constrained stores
• How to use the VSW to support a multi-tiered global supply chain
• How to use the VSW to support vendor managed inventory scenarios

Under Utilized Features in DSX FM – Driving Forecast Improvement

Forecast improvement is all about accuracy—and Demand Solutions DSX is designed to make it possible. Learn about powerful features such as scaling, expanding collaboration, and forced formulas that can help you drive focused improvements to your demand planning processes.

Under Utilized Features in DSX RP – Generating a Better Supply Plan

Generating better supply plans is all about accuracy—and Demand Solutions DSX is designed to make it possible. Learn about powerful features such as expiration date planning and allocation that can help you drive focused improvements to your overall supply chain processes.

Demand Planning: The New Frontier

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.

AdapLink Integration – Tackling the Integration Challenge

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

Dynamic What-If Scenario Analytics with Halo

In this session you will learn how to extend the capabilities of the Halo platform to accelerate and simplify what-if analysis across your organization and beyond. The session will include coverage of the following:

• Creating What-if Scenarios
• Scenario Management
• Initiating Workflows
• Scenario Adjustments

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Proportional Profile Best Practices

This session covers how Logility Voyager Proportional Profile Planning™ supports the creation, maintenance and application of time-phased disaggregation profiles to give you more granularity with less effort. You will learn:

• Organizing the universe of measures
• Determining the best level of detail to create profiles
• Initial stocking versus replenishment profiles
• Automatic application of profiles to products

Explore the Differences Between DS and DSX

You’ve heard the buzz about Demand Solutions DSX—but what’s the real difference between legacy DS1 and our newest solution? Join us to explore this topic in depth. You’ll learn about the most important new systemwide capabilities—such as advanced analytics—that make it worth migrating. You’ll also find that DSX SaaS has been designed to make your migration much simpler than implementing an entirely new solution.

Inventory Management for Store Fulfillment Centers

As Retailers look to reduce EComm distribution costs, more stores are operating as EComm fulfillment centers. In addition, customers expect same day in-store customer pickup for online orders. This retail optimization session is a presentation on how to forecast and replenish the right inventory to stores that operate as EComm fulfillment centers leveraging the functionality in Logility Voyager Allocation™. You will learn:

• How to load and identify EComm sales for Fulfillment Stores
• How to build a store forecast to Fulfillment Stores
• Options for incorporating the EComm sales into store allocations based on product allocation strategies

Visualization Across Demand and Supply

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!

Enabling Demand Solutions’ Planning to Execution Vision in your Supply Chain

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.

Assortment Planning: From Inspiration to Allocation

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

Executive S&OP: Leveraging Logility IBP to Facilitate Your Executive S&OP Experience

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

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Why Embedded Analytics are Important to Your Supply Chain Success

Embedded analytics isn’t just another buzzword. All through the supply chain discipline, execution is catching up with hype. Join us to see how data visualizations within the Demand Solutions platform can give you valuable insight into what’s really happening across your supply chain. You’ll discover how your planners, supply team, manufacturers, and sales reps can all benefit from having role-based analytics at their fingertips in Demand Solutions DSX.

Planning for Scheduled Supply Interruptions

This important session explores tools and techniques to assist you in planning for scheduled interruptions such as plant shutdowns, Chinese New Year and reserved receiving days. You will learn:

• Calendars
• Build plans
• Implementation strategies