The Steelwedge technology foundation reflects over a decade of research and development into the core requirements for effective planning. Steelwedge offers a powerful, easy-to-use, and highly scaleable platform that incorporates the following five technological advantages:

Enterprise Enabled Excel: Steelwedge has created a unique front end, Enterpise Enabled Excel, which preserves the ease of use and flexibility of Excel, while combining the power of an enterprise class solution. The flexible Excel based templates provide users an intuitive solution which which reduces change management and training issues. Read more...

Process Automation & Management: Steelwedge's workflow engine controls information flow and processing and alerts and exception management. The engine is designed with a graphical user interface, Process Studio, which easily configures the workflow and triggers and alerts processes to existing and changing business processes. Forecasting and planning business processes can be modeled to ensure consistency, collaboration and security throughout the organization. Read more...

Adaptive Analytic Engine: Steelwedge's scalable, adaptive analytic engine uniquely combines quantitative techniques, including time-series and casual regression analysis with advanced qualitative techniques to maximize forecast accuracy. The analytic engine leverages expert system logic, business heuristics and qualitative information to automatically select the optimum combination of forecasting techniques. Read more...

Statistical Bill of Material: Steelwedge's patent-pending solution to managing complex configured products. Enables users to forecast and understand components at a high level without losing insights only captured at the detail level. Read more...

Intelligent Integration & Transformation: Steelwedge combines industry-standard Enterprise Transformation Layer (ETL) technology with deep domain expertise to automatically aggregate and normalize data, providing smart data translation to get every department—from sales to materials planning—speaking the same language. Steelwedge defines complex business and processing rules that will ensure the solution captures and communicates exceptions in the loading process. Read more...