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International Innovation Company, in most parts of the world better known by the brand name Vacu Vin, licenses Outperform Planning for Exact. The solution will extend their Exact ERP system with an enterprise solution for Sales & Operations planning. The system covers the entire business process from sales forecasting to operations planning and execution.
Nature’s Pride, a Netherlands based supplier of a wide range of unique fruits and vegetables, has selected Outperform for the scheduling of the packing operations. Nature’s Pride processes around 500 production orders each day across 35 production lines. The schedule needs to fit the tight windows between earliest start and deadline, products need to be in the truck as fresh as possible and ripened exactly to customer specification. Outperform supports making that puzzle and dealing with the operational exceptions, day after day.
De Kroes licenses S&OP for Exact. De Kroes had been exploring implementing Sales and Operations Planning to expand the capabilities of their Exact ERP system. At the conference "Exact Live!" in September 2013 their interest in Outperform was triggered by the presentation by Stephan Schneider from Vacu Vin "Inventory is there for a reason".
The UK’s number one baby food brand, Ella’s Kitchen has chosen Outperform Planning as their planning solution to support growth and aid in their planning processes.
Menken Orlando came to us via the Exact partner network Pink Elephant (formerly known as Nobel). After several years of working together with Menken Orlando, they knew what Menken Orlando was looking for. In a joint effort, we analysed Menken Orlando’s requirements and how they map onto the standard offering S&OP for Exact. Along with Outperform’s experience in the food industry Menken Orlando concluded that S&OP is the right solution at the right time.
Blommer Chocolate Company has selected Outperform Planning to manage the demand, plan the production, schedule the plants and create the material plan across their four manufacturing sites in North America. The project started in January and is well on its way to go live with all modules in August 2020.
Outperform Planning has been chosen as the solution to drive the Sales & Operations Planning processes for the Foods division of Royal Smilde. This comprises 2 factories, 3 co-manufacturing sites, 20 warehouses and distribution into 60 countries for the business units Culinary and Bakery Spreads (CBS) and Cool - Fresh (CF).
Outperform Planning was selected by ABI to automate the process to manage the replenishment of stock based on min/max levels. Outperform was chosen because it met the requirements of ABI. One of them was the ability to integrate their Demand, Replenishment, Inventory and Production planning in one tool with flexibility at every level.
Following an intensive selection process in May and June, Rijk Zwaan has selected Outperform Demand Planning to support the Sales Planning and Replenishment planning process worldwide. The project will deliver a tighter link between developments in the market and the Rijk Zwaan planning and supply operations.
Outperform signed a contract with innocent to supply and implement Outperform Planning to replace a mix of spreadsheets and in-house developed solutions. This migration will be planned and executed in close collaboration with innocent's IT/IS team. We will create a Sales and Operations Planning solution that can support the growth over the next 10 years, in geographical regions and product portfolio. Innocent already have the "one number demand plan" in their Demantra system, which Outperform Planning will use as input. We will report this demand plan in representations and aggregations to support the needs of the S&OP process, thereby maintaining Outperform Planning as the system of reference that connects the demand and supply plan. The supply side covered by Outperform includes procurement planning, raw material planning, production planning and transportation planning.
Outperform has been selected to provide a system for the planning of global seed production at Rijk Zwaan. Deciding factors were the quality of the Outperform software products, a demonstration of how these can be applied to the seed production challenge and commitment to meet the requirements in full. With this decision, Rijk Zwaan and Outperform extend their strategic collaboration.
Rijk Zwaan is amongst the top 5 vegetable breeding companies in the world and focuses fully on vegetable seeds offering a wide assortment within the sector. Continuous innovation is essential and Rijk Zwaan invests approximately 30 % of its turnover on R&D.
OUTPERFORM Planning has been selected by Pearson VUE to provide a demand planning solution for exam registrations at their test centers. Some of the major deciding factors have been the simple and straightforward user interface that delivers on the claim "Excel or better". In addition, the demonstrations during the evaluation period confirmed the scalability of the application to handle large data volumes from day one.
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