Millions of customers worldwide count on SAP software solutions to run their business. John Galt's forecasting tools are the perfect complement to SAP APO, enhancing one another's strengths. With the superior ease of use and flexibility that John Galt's business forecasting and inventory planning systems offer, you can easily produce inputs for elements that APO covers and let SAP's execution routines take over.

• The ForecastX Wizard for Excel is the perfect tool to introduce detailed business forecasts and powerful inventory planning what-if analysis into APO. The Wizard allows you to tune your statistical parameters with extreme accuracy.
• We also offer Forecast Xpert Training, a two-day course that walks you through the methods and techniques used in statistical forecasting every day.

For suppliers to major retailers, we offer a powerful new solution to enhance sales and profitability.

• Consumer Centric Planning is a demand sensing tool that produces complete and up-to-date POS forecasts and inventory plans from a demand signal repository. When coupled with SAP, CCP's plans can be put into action immediately, allowing you to react to issues at the shelf with blinding speed.

If you are looking to incorporate a formal sales and operations planning process into APO, we have two offerings that enhance SAP's planning functions.

• Our Planning Portal is designed to quickly collect collaborative input from sales and other resources and place it in the system. It is quick to learn and simple to use.
• The Atlas Planning Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) module is also an excellent front end for an APO-based planning process. S&OP is a web-based solution that collects input from dozens of partners and reconciles it into a complete plan automatically. With S&OP, planners benefit from a deep feature set and more robust automation.

Finally, if you are searching for a solution that will help you automate your business forecasting and demand planning process, our Atlas Planning Suite is the perfect tool. Atlas is a modular solution which includes numerous applications.

• Our Demand Management Engine is ideal for business forecasting. The Engine can be scheduled to run automatically and feed its output back into APO. Other modules include:
• Inventory Management, offering deep inventory planning and production optimization,
• Planning Portal, providing easy collaboration and sales forecasting for dozens of participants,
• S&OP, a complete sales & operations planning platform,
• Rough Cut Capacity Planning, to balance demand against production ability,
• Promotional Performance Management, to understand how promotions affect demand,
• Scheduling, to make demand-driven production schedules, and
• Supply Chain Dashboard, to give a complete overview of the supply chain quickly over the Web to executives.

Many companies have joined John Galt tools with APO, including:

• Tastykake
• Dupont
• Syngenta
• L'Oreal