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Steelwedge Solutions Overview

Steelwedge powers Integrated Business Planning agility in three ways:

Engages all Stakeholdersin the Process

Steelwedge powers a collaborative and repeatable planning process. An automated, alert-driven work�ow ensures internal and external participation. We collect and consolidate your team’s qualitative inputs with quantitative demand, supply and �nance data to create actionable intelligence. And we close the collaboration loop by capturing exceptions and triggering alerts with metrics-based performance indicators.

Steelwedge Sales and Operations Planning Solution

Enterprise Resource

Planning (ERP)

Supply Chain Management

(SCM)

Customer Relationship Management

(CRM)

Business Intelligence (BI)

Steelwedge seamlessly connects all participants and systems in sales, marketing, supply chain and �nance, providing an actionable clear line of sight from plan to performance to pro�t.

Provides an Easy-to-Use and Flexible Planning Interface

If your team knows Excel, they will instantly feel comfortable with Steelwedge. Spreadsheets are the common language of the planning process, but they are notoriously static and disconnected from enterprise data. Steelwedge extends the usability of Microsoft Excel with our cloud-based single planning platform that delivers “one version of the truth” and is agile and �exible enough to change with your requirements.

Leverages Existing Enterprise Applications, all from the Cloud

Steelwedge is an on-demand solution, allowing you to get up and running quickly without the burden of IT overhead. Steelwedge is the only solution that pulls critical data from ERP, CRM, SCM, BI and Finance systems into a single, uni�ed platform for strategic business planning. There is no more powerful or simple way to unite and harmonize the planning data you need for decision-making.

Steelwedge keeps planning in perfect sync with today’s dynamic and volatile business environment. Our Integrated Business Planning (IBP) platform provides a single environment for connecting business strategy and operations planning -- transforming your planning process into a powerful, agile engine for maximizing revenue, margin and customer service.

Built on our IBP Platform, Steelwedge’s Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) solutions provide the foresight and �exibility needed to sense and share customer requirements and align business operations with market realities. With Steelwedge, you make the most of your existing systems and transform a sea of siloed, big data into a single, actionable view.

Our automated work�ows accelerate the S&OP process and ensure timely collaboration among your sales, marketing, supply chain, �nance and partner communities. And, our robust “what if” scenario modeling and decision support tools help executives diagnose supply and demand gaps and design optimal sales, inventory and production strategies.

Further, we put our deep domain expertise to work for you with best practice process consulting, change management,training and support. Our Crawl-Walk-Run-Sprint methodology helps businesses advance their process maturity, while delivering incremental automation “wins” to ensure broader adoption and success.

Steelwedge keeps planning in perfect sync with today’s dynamic and volatile business environment. Our Integrated Business Planning (IBP) platform provides a single environment for connecting business strategy and operations planning -- transforming your planning process into a powerful, agile engine for maximizing revenue, margin and customer service.

Built on our IBP Platform, Steelwedge’s Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) solutions provide the foresight and �exibility needed to sense and share customer requirements and align business operations with market realities. With Steelwedge, you make the most of your existing systems and transform a sea of siloed, big data into a single, actionable view.

Our automated work�ows accelerate the S&OP process and ensure timely collaboration among your sales, marketing, supply chain, �nance and partner communities. And, our robust “what if” scenario modeling and decision support tools help executives diagnose supply and demand gaps and design optimal sales, inventory and production strategies.

Further, we put our deep domain expertise to work for you with best practice process consulting, change management,training and support. Our Crawl-Walk-Run-Sprint methodology helps businesses advance their process maturity, while delivering incremental automation “wins” to ensure broader adoption and success.

Pro�table Demand and Supply Decision-Making

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Steelwedge Solutions At-a-Glance

Power a single view of sales, operations and �nance, from plan to performance to pro�t,with platform solution

The cloud-based Steelwedge Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Platform allows you to design and automate a collaborative planning process that �ts your organization and is agile enough to adapt to your changing business realities.

The Steelwedge IBP Platform assembles data from multiple systems in any format – including ERP, SCM, CRM, BI, and Finance – and harmonize that data for pro�table demand and supply decision-making. Our intuitive user interface leverages familiar paradigms like Microsoft Excel and Outlook email, making it easy to use. Because it is cloud-based, our platform additionally provides faster time to value and reduces your internal IT resource commitment.

Steelwedge IntegratedBusiness Planning Platform

Explore “what if” business scenarios and perform tradeoffs between supply, demand, inventory and �nance

Steelwedge Executive S&OP aligns consensus demand forecasts, constrained supply plans and �nancial plans to engage C-level stakeholders in the strategic planning process and ensure that critical decisions are data-driven and timely. Executives can see the whole spectrum of demand and supply with a clear perspective on the �nancial impact of potential “what if” scenarios. Identify and resolve exceptions, evaluate capacity and inventory trade-offs, understand working capital requirements and manage the impact on margins. Capture the business context and assumptions linked to alternative scenarios for future reference.

Steelwedge Executive S&OP

Drive dramatically better forecasting with collaborative demand management

Steelwedge S&OP Sales empowers you to anticipate, understand and shape customer demand by engaging multiple business functions -- sales, marketing, product management, �nance and operations-- in a collaborative forecasting and demand planning process. Generate sales forecasts for all products and key components, including new and end-of-lifecycle products. Drive pro�tability by evaluating how cannibalization, supersession, pricing and product mix will affect revenue and margin. In lock step with your S&OP process, create a consensus demand forecast to drive supply, inventory planning, capacity planning, �nancial and strategic planning.

For customers with con�gured products, Steelwedge provides attach-rate forecasting to drive mix forecasting for complex products and key components. Now sales can forecast in their terms, such as customer speci�c product packages, and operations can aggregate independent and dependent demand for products and components.

Steelwedge S&OP Sales

S&OPCollaboration

IBP Process Flow

Statistical Forecast

MarketingMarketing Plan

Sales ManagementSales Plan

FinanceRevenue Plan

Demand PlanningDemand Plan

ConsensusUnconstrained

Forecast

S&OPSales

Executive S&OP

Business Strategy Scenarios

S&OPOps

InventoryInventory Plan

FinanceInventory Investment

ProductionRough Cut Capacity

ProcurementProcurement Plan

SourcingAllocation Plan

CustomerForecast

SupplierCommit Plan

Executive S&OPFinal S&OP Plan

Final Consensus Plan Final Supply Plan

M&A Strategy Capital Investment Financial Forecast Operating Budget

S&OP Finance


Marshall your resources and maximize revenue

Steelwedge S&OP Operations helps you improve global demand forecasts and optimize site-level supply and production plans for upstream functions including operations, logistics and third party suppliers. Compare unconstrained netted supply plans to rough cut capacity limits and identify your capacity imbalances. Review aggregate load on critical resources in units and hours. Perhaps most important in today’s volatile business environment: look at the �nancial impact of scenario planning to evaluate how alternative scenarios such as demand shifting, capacity adjustments and inventory pre-build can resolve imbalances and in�uence working capital, asset utilization and inventory targets.

Steelwedge S&OP Operations

Provide Outside-In View of Customers, Suppliers and Trading Partners for your S&OP Process

In today's highly outsourced supply chains, companies can win or lose based on how collaborative they are with their trading partners. Steelwedge S&OP Collaboration extends your S&OP process to your customers and suppliers to provide an outside-in perspective. Collaborate with customers on demand forecasts and promotions. Collaborate with suppliers on your requirements and their commitments. Seamlessly integrate external collaboration into your S&OP process and identify gaps and adjust resources. Steelwedge supports a variety of collaboration models including customer forecasting, trade promotion, Collaborative Planning, Forecast and Replenishment (CPFR) and Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI).

Why not see for yourself?

Our ROI Calculator can show you how automating your planning process with Steelwedge can pay, or try a test drive to see how best practice S&OP could work in your business.

Steelwedge Software, Inc.

Steelwedge integrated sales, operations and �nance planning solutions provide the "shock absorbers" to recognize, recalibrate and respond in a volatile environment. Business agility starts with Steelwedge for a clear line of sight from plan to performance to pro�t. For additional information, please email us: [email protected].

Steelwedge S&OP Collaboration

The ROI of Steelwedge

Forecast Accuracy

15-30% improvement

through collaboration

Customer Service

10-30% improvement in customer service

level throughreduced stock-outs

Inventory Reduction

10-20% reduction through more

accurate forecasts

Planning Cycle Time

50-70% reduction via integration and

process automation

Revenue and Margins

5% lift through reduced stock-outs

and better cost management


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