Oct 23

Leading SAP customers are increasingly selecting Steelwedge to meet their business planning needs — citing that Steelwedge is the easiest-to-use, quickest-to-implement, and most powerful S&OP and performance management solution available. They state that only Steelwedge offers the flexibility, functionality, agility and power they require. Steelwedge was also recently named as the leading provider of dedicated S&OP solutions by analyst firms AMR and Gartner.

SAP customers using Steelwedge to meet their sales forecasting, operational planning and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) requirements include Honeywell, Hewlett Packard, Harley-Davidson, Nvidia and Spansion. “Steelwedge offers breakthrough technology that overcomes the planning challenges created by the growth of disparate, departmental data sources and the lack of formal planning processes.” said Glen Margolis, CEO of Steelwedge Software. “The collaborative planning model and Netweaver-compliant technology stack offered by Steelwedge solves these evolving challenges for the first time through its elegant and easy-to-use solution.”

The Steelwedge Sales Planning and Performance Management solution bridges the gap between sales pipeline opportunities and demand planning processes, incorporating market intelligence into the consensus demand forecasting and S&OP process. In addition, it allows executive management to improve planning processes through best-practice workflows, performance management, and product configuration planning tools.

“ERP companies have failed to provide practical solutions for sales planning and performance management,” said Steelwedge CEO Glen Margolis. “With each passing day, more SAP and Oracle customers are currently evaluating, implementing or using Steelwedge collaborative sales forecasting and sales & operations planning (S&OP) capabilities.”

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Apr 12

Steelwedge Software today announced a new product release for its Sales Planning & Performance Management (SPPM) solution featuring One-Click-Planning” TM.    One-Click Planning features a new Steelwedge Planning Work Center that provides users visibility to critical planning, transaction and performance management data required to execute the S&OP process. 

 One Click Planning enables global enterprises to achieve maximum financial and operational performance from their S&OP process by providing executives and users the ability to go directly from an email alert to value-added planning and exception resolution.          “One-Click-Planning enables Steelwedge to build on its leadership position in the S&OP marketplace”, said Steelwedge VP, Product Management Chris Givens.  “Based on our strong track record in helping enterprises enable collaborative sales forecasting and bridging the gaps between sales and operations, our customer feedback was a key driver for us to enhance our existing workflow and adding the new work center, to be more streamlined, user friendly and configurable.”    “Existing Steelwedge customers and prospects are extremely excited about the new release because it will have a significant impact on their S&OP processes and financial and operational performance”, said Steelwedge CEO Glen Margolis.   

“While our current Steelwedge solution is critical to enabling the collaborative sales forecasting and operations planning process, we are pleased with Steelwedge “One-Click Planning”, which further streamlines our planning efforts, providing quick access to the information we need to make faster decisions that impact the bottom line,” said the COO of a leading high technology manufacturer and Steelwedge customer.  One of the long standing challenges of S&OP is to provide an automated workflow driven solution that engages executives and planners across multiple functions to update plans on a scheduled and exception basis.  

 

One-Click-Planning uses email alerts with direct access to secure role based planning information to simplify and streamline the S&OP process and increase cross-functional participation from executives to planners.  The new planning work center brings together critical information required for users to easily execute their monthly S&OP process including: Steelwedge S&OP Work Tasks, Planning Templates, Performance Dashboards and Exception Monitor.  

 

As a Certified SAP Partner, the Steelwedge S&OP Release 4.5 is schedule for general availability on Jun 30, 2008.  The beta version will be showcased at the upcoming Steelwedge Solutions Summit on May 19-21, 2008 in Pleasanton California.

 

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Feb 20

Steelwedge is pleased to announce the first user forum named Steelwedge Solutions Summit.  This gathering will be a unique opportunity for users, partners and prospects to learn about and discuss Steelwedge product evolution & roadmap, best practices in S&OP, demand planning and forecasting.  Presenters will include Steelwedge, client and industry leaders.  Further, participants will have ample opportunities to network, develop connections with other participants and establish user group communications beyond this event.

 The event will be held May 19, 20 and 21, 2008 in and around Pleasanton, CA.  On Monday May 19, attendees may choose to participate in one of two optional activities, golf or sailing.  On Tuesday May 20, users, partners and prospects are welcome for a full day of presentations and discussion.  The event concludes Wednesday May 21 with sessions exclusively for current clients.  This half day program will conclude with lunch.  Optional client meetings may be scheduled in the afternoon.

We look forward to welcoming our partners, prospects and clients to join us for some great food, fun and lively discussion.  More details to come…

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