SignalDemand Solutions
SignalDemand offers solutions ranging in breath and depth, supporting your evolving needs while bringing significant value today
SignalDemand provides predictive analytics and optimization software-as-a-service to deliver real-time, forward looking recommendations that help you make complex price, supply, mix and purchasing decisions within the context of your business processes. Using patented, comprehensive mathematical models, SignalDemand enables better day-to-day decision making that delivers increased profit margins through a suite of software solutions that includes:
EnterpriseOptimizer™
SignalDemand's award-winning EnterpriseOptimizer software enables manufacturers to optimize business performance across the supply and demand sides of their organization by maximizing margins and overall corporate profitability. Using sophisticated mathematical models and algorithms, EnterpriseOptimizer delivers the information that pricers, sales, planners, procurement teams, economists and executives need to make the best decisions possible within the constraints of their business and the dynamic markets they serve. On the demand side, EnterpriseOptimizer provides manufacturers with recommendations on the ideal mix of customers and channels to sell to and the best pricing strategy for each. For the supply side, EnterpriseOptimizer delivers an optimized product formulation, purchase plan and product mix that maximizes margins under changing market conditions, enabling manufacturers to respond to customer demand and volatile market conditions quickly, efficiently and most profitably.
The models and algorithms comprising EnterpriseOptimizer provide the basis for all SignalDemand optimization solutions. This ensures interoperability and makes it easy for customers to use multiple solutions concurrently. For example, organizations with broad flexibility on the demand side often choose to utilize MarginOptimizer and MixOptimizer together to enable them to shape demand towards the most profitable outlets, using both price and mix as strategic levers.
Sales and Marketing Solutions
MarginOptimizer
Price touches every facet of a manufacturer's organization, from sales, marketing and finance to purchasing and production. This makes determining the ideal price that will maximize total margins a surprisingly complex and challenging job. MarginOptimizer makes price planning, setting and execution less complex and challenging by providing recommendations that enable manufacturers to shape demand across products, time, channels and customer segments to maximize overall margin contribution and optimize their business performance even when selling to a large global customer base that operates in highly volatile markets.
MixOptimizer
Manufacturers face tremendous complexity due to country, brand and channel mix along with shifting demand patterns and growth in emerging markets. MixOptimizer helps manufacturers coordinate their raw material inputs, inventory, production capacity and demand forecasts to optimize product and channel mix and maximize their profits. Manufacturers can use MixOptimizer strategically to determine how customer mix should change in response to changing demand patterns or, more tactically, to support sales and operations planning processes. Regardless of its use, MixOptimizer can help to determine the most profitable product and channel mix to deliver sustained growth and increased profitability.
Production Planning Solutions
MixOptimizer
Manufacturers face tremendous complexity due to country, brand and channel mix along with shifting demand patterns and growth in emerging markets. MixOptimizer helps manufacturers coordinate their raw material inputs, inventory, production capacity and demand forecasts to optimize product and channel mix and maximize their profits. Manufacturers can use MixOptimizer strategically to determine how customer mix should change in response to changing demand patterns or, more tactically, to support sales and operations planning processes. Regardless of its use, MixOptimizer can help to determine the most profitable product and channel mix to deliver sustained growth and increased profitability.
CapacityOptimizer
For many asset intensive industries profitability is defined by maximizing capacity utilization and the margin per capacity unit of their asset base. CapacityOptimizer enables these manufacturers to establish an optimal "forward sold curve," which defines the percentage of product that should be sold in advance. This information guides the sales team by ensuring product availability for their most valuable customers and by eliminating excess capacity that can place downward pressure on margins. Manufacturers use CapacityOptimizer's price and mix recommendations to ensure maximization of margin of the remaining capacity. The result: A business that operates more consistently and more profitably.
BlendOptimizer
Process manufacturers, such as food and chemicals companies, produce products that can be manufactured from component ingredients using flexible and/or alternative formulas. When raw material costs are stable, formulas remain relatively stable. However, when there is market volatility, manufacturers can miss potential cost savings if they do not adjust formulas to allow procurement to take advantage of current market conditions. BlendOptimizer forecasts raw material prices across multiple time horizons, enabling manufacturers to determine the optimal blend of component materials that will deliver a finished good at the lowest possible price. With BlendOptimizer production planners have the information they need at their fingertips to optimize short term planning of raw material usage to deliver the highest margin for the manufacturer.
Sourcing and Procurement Solutions
PurchaseOptimizer
Manufacturers purchasing commodity-based raw materials are faced with increasing levels of price volatility that can significantly impact their bottom line. With PurchaseOptimizer, manufacturers can use cost forecasts, scenario analysis and optimized procurement plans that the solution provides to purchase commodities-based raw materials more intelligently. Procurement teams finalize their procurement plans based on a forward looking view of costs, inventory constraints and costs, demand and the optimized forward purchase curve that PurchaseOptimizer provides. The software provides decision-support around key questions facing a procurement team, such as: What to buy? When to buy? How much to buy? What price should I expect to pay? From which supplier should I buy? taking the guess work out of procurement, ensuring operational stability and improved profitability.
BlendOptimizer
Process manufacturers, such as food and chemicals companies, produce products that can be manufactured from component ingredients using flexible and/or alternative formulas. When raw material costs are stable, formulas remain relatively stable. However, when there is market volatility, manufacturers can miss potential cost savings if they do not adjust formulas to allow procurement to take advantage of current market conditions. BlendOptimizer forecasts raw material prices across multiple time horizons, enabling manufacturers to determine the optimal blend of component materials that will deliver a finished good at the lowest possible price. With BlendOptimizer production planners have the information they need at their fingertips to optimize short term planning of raw material usage to deliver the highest margin for the manufacturer.
Cross Functional Solutions and Capabilities
EnterpriseForecaster
EnterpriseForecaster presents a comprehensive picture of the conditions an organization will face in the future. It incorporates market and customer data to create baseline projections of future demand, supply, price and market prices that reflect trends, seasonality and market emotion as well as the correlation between current and previous prices. SignalDemand customers can use the solution's forecasting workbench to adjust the fundamentals of the forecast to perform scenario analysis and assess the full range of future scenarios that their organization may encounter.
MarketForecaster
MarketForecaster provides commodity price forecasts through an intuitive user interface, enabling fact-based decision making for manufacturers, retailers, restaurants and others as they buy and sell commodities or products made from commodities. The solution generates market-level price forecasts using a variety of inputs, including information from data aggregators such as the USDA. As such there is no implementation required for this one-stop shop for historical and projected commodity prices. Learn more >
Solutions based on Software-as-a-Service
SignalDemand's forecasting and optimization solutions are built and delivered as secure, multi-tenant SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solutions using the latest web-based technologies. SignalDemand securely hosts and operates the application for use by customers over the internet.
