Steelwedge for the Industrial Products Industry

Industrial Equipment industry is characterized by

• Configure-to-order product strategy
• Broad product portfolio, where product mix visibility is key to forecasting expected margin
• Long sales cycles making demand forecasting a difficult process.

In such an environment, frequent planning and ongoing performance tracking is the key to creating accurate product mix plans. Planning accuracy is important for correctly forecasting margins and committing the right internal and external capacity for supply planning.

The Steelwedge EPPM brings simplicity, power, and flexibility to the planning process. Leading companies are using Steelwedge to improve their demand planning processes, resulting in shorter planning cycles and improved agility to respond to market changes. By leveraging its unique capabilities in creating demand plans for configured products, providing clear margin visibility based on expected product-mix and enabling collaborating sales forecasting processes, Steelwedge is designed to support the key planning issues at industrial products companies. In addition, companies are streamlining their S&OP processes and creating operations plans that meet key objectives—high customer fill rates, lower inventory levels, and on-target revenue and margin.