The tool is intended to help global manufacturers weigh the optimal tradeoff between supply and demand, in a time of continual market change. Steelwedge S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) Insight allows users to review real-time, aggregated summary content across divisions, geographies, hierarchies and dollars, all on their mobile devices. It contains a dozen pre-configured, best-practice metrics. Steelwedge S&OP Apps Architecture is a set of pre-configured applications to aid in demand policy, segmentation and stocking strategy. According to Steelwedge, the new technology infrastructure utilizes the cloud to process large amounts of data, as an aid to decision-making for critical planning issues. The vendor's latest upgrades encompass investments in the areas of storage, network, edge caching and memory and CPU.

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