POCLAIN HYDRAULICS GAINS FORECAST ACCURACY, INVENTORY SAVINGS WITH JOHN GALT’S ATLAS PLANNING SUITE™
Best-of-breed software helps global manufacturer of hydraulic motors to implement collaborative Sales & Operations Planning processes, while reducing inventory costs.
(CHICAGO – July 26, 2006) John Galt Solutions, Inc., the leading provider of innovative software solutions for collaborative forecasting and demand planning, announced today that Poclain Hydraulics, a worldwide supplier of hydraulic motors, is now up and running on the Atlas Planning Suite™ Demand Management Engine.
Headquartered in Verberie, France, Poclain Hydraulics supports manufacturing facilities in France, the United States and the Czech Republic, as well as wholly owned sales offices in the U.S., Europe, China and Japan. The company sells its motors primarily to equipment manufacturers in the construction, agricultural and material handling industries
In implementing John Galt’s enterprise-scale forecasting and demand planning software, Poclain aimed to achieve a faster, more streamlined process for collaborative sales and operations planning (S&OP) through the use of a powerful statistical forecasting and analysis tool.
Robert O’Neill, North American Demand Manager for Poclain Hydraulics notes: “In our judgment, John Galt’s forecasting and planning technology offered the most functionality and flexibility at the best price. Deploying the solution in our factories and sales subsidiaries has already yielded positive results. Our forecasting accuracy is much improved, on-time delivery rates have increased significantly, and the inventory savings have been tremendous. John Galt’s technology has become an integral part of our strategy to build an effective S&OP process, for the current year and years to come.”
About the Atlas Planning Suite
John Galt’s Atlas Planning Suite is comprised of a suite of business process applications designed to centralize and standardize key data from all of a company’s data systems to make real-time business information available in an intelligent reporting format. Better information enables managers in any department to better understand issues, forecast performance and plan actions for operational and business improvement. Currently, the Atlas Planning Suite offers seven business process modules: Demand Management Engine, Inventory Management, Promotional Performance Management, Rough Cut Capacity Planning, Sarbanes-Oxley Reporting, Sales & Operations Planning, and the Planning Portal.
About John Galt Solutions
John Galt Solutions, Inc., a privately held company, provides leading-edge
demand planning, collaborative and forecasting solutions. It strives to
improve mid-size businesses’ demand planning and collaborative processes
through accurate, innovative solutions and customer partnerships. John
Galt Solutions, Inc. provides a broad family of ForecastX ä products
and services that meet the needs of any company at every level of growth,
including companies such as Fidelity Investments, Hasbro Games, Syngenta
Crop Protection and Huhtamaki. For more information visit www.johngalt.com.
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