“Smoothie helped restore my passion for forecasting. I have implemented S&OP processes many times throughout my career and Smoothie has repeatedly exceeded my expectations. Smoothie was designed specifically for S&OP and its flexibility and speed has improved productivity and forecast accuracy. More important however is the company itself. Having worked with Demand Works for nearly 8 months now, I can say that their management expertly aligned their business model to ensure their customer’s success. Even when I tried to cave to internal pressures on some key topics which would have potentially yielded Demand Works greater revenues, they steered us back on the ‘correct’ path. In summary, when you team up with Demand Works it is truly a win-win partnership that is reinforced by their business model, integrity, experience and leadership. I strongly recommend Demand Works. Smoothie and the Demand Works team will most certainly enhance any company’s S&OP process.”

Demand Manager
Tyco Electronics

"Supply chain visibility is critical to our success. Since we implemented Demand Work's Smoothie, much of the 'fog of supply chain' has been lifted. We can now anticipate and shape demand better, but more importantly we can view changes in demand and their impact on our overall supply/demand positions in real time. Using and acting on this information in a much more agile manner allows us to maintain our competitive edge in meeting and exceeding customer expectations. Smoothie has easily become one of our most essential, if not mission critical tools to manage the business and its superior ease of use, flexibility, and adaptability make forecasting fun!"

Product Supply Manager
Sartomer Company

"We got a full payback on the software and integration in about two months. Smoothie helped us to re-balance our inventories and production across three plants and 170 production lines, and the demand flow rates have been a key input to our lean manufacturing initiative. We are loving Smoothie!"

Director of Corporate Planning, Scheduling and Logistics
ConMed Corporation

“We have been Demand Works customers for several years and recently made the upgrade to Smoothie.  We decided to work with two models, a customer model where we can determine how well we can forecast specific customers, and a terminal model where we can use the actual aggregated demand out of a terminal to generate an independent forecast for inventory replenishment specific to terminals.  This approach has worked perfectly for us as we now have the ability to put together good financial forecasts with individual customer demands and price forecasting, in addition to having a robust terminal forecast for inventory replenishment that is informed by the customer model as well.  We also have more visibility now on our open orders both by customer by month, and by terminal by week.  This powerful tool is now integral to all of our supply chain processes.”

Materials Manager

"From an IT perspective, Smoothie has been an excellent platform for our forecast model requirements. Developing, implementing, and supporting models with Smoothie is really quite simple, allowing us to focus on more important things like data quality and creating robust processes for loading the models."

IT Manager

"Smoothie offers seamless forecast integration from a host of global participants in a flexible off line environment.  Analyzing and executing a complex model used to take us weeks to pull together. Now, it takes minutes.  Smoothie offered us efficiency, accuracy, and flexibility in one package."

Market & Supply Chain Analyst
White Drive Products, Inc.

"Smoothie SP has totally changed the way we work here. In our industry we deal with tens of thousands of SKUs and forecast accuracy has always been the biggest challenge. In the past everything was done in a big Excel spreadsheet and we could only focus on the key items. Now with Smoothie we can review demand at any aggregate level and the whole process becomes so flexible. The most wonderful thing is it is so incredibly easy to set up a model. We are now in the process of rolling out Smoothie SP to the whole Asia Pacific, including Australia, South Africa, India, China, Singapore and Japan."

Planning Manager
Carl Zeiss Vision (Australia)