DS Collaborate Streamlines, Accelerates Business Planning

In response to industry's need to create reliable and scalable demand-driven supply networks, Demand Management, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Logility, Inc., today announced the availability of Demand Solutions Collaborate for seamless integration of supply chain information. The Web-based addition to the company's DS One line of forecasting and demand planning applications facilitates accurate promotion planning and enables Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR).

"The capabilities of DS Collaborate make DS One a best-of-breed choice for forecasting and demand planning," said Demand Management President Mike Campbell. "A company seeking to contain the cost of technology initiatives while increasing the effectiveness of its supply chain will find that DS Collaborate delivers tremendous business value."

DS Collaborate helps participants in an extended enterprise to analyze, interpret, plan and manage value chain events for maximum customer and supplier visibility. Using DS Collaborate in conjunction with other elements of DS One, companies can manage shorter decision cycles efficiently by communicating effectively with all of their trading partners.

"DS Collaborate expands the tangible benefits of our True Collaboration framework, making it easy to synchronize planning and leverage complex multiple promotions to differentiate products in highly competitive markets," Campbell said.

Using a secure Internet connection, DS Collaborate provides extensive communications capabilities across planning, manufacturing, sales and distribution. The solution enables users to view and adjust collaborative information in the context of their role and share a synchronized event calendar, providing unprecedented visibility into each trading partner's business.

DS Collaborate removes barriers to entry for smaller trading partners who now only need a Web browser to communicate. Monitoring of Key Performance Indicator (KPI) information is streamlined and automated, allowing companies to make profitable decisions based on time-sensitive information in collaboration with their trading partners.