PLANNING

We combine expertise and proprietary assets with best-in-class supply chain and business planning platforms to help companies keep an eye on operating costs and profit margins, meet customers’ high expectations, and react quickly to changes in supply and demand.

SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING PLATFORMS

Bristlecone is proud to work with the best supply chain planning platforms on the market today. Every platform we deploy features powerful tools – what-if simulations, real-time alerts, predictive analytics, advanced algorithms, and more.

SAP IBP

Cloud-based end-to-end planning solution, powered by SAP HANA’s in-memory computing, that unifies demand, supply and financial planning.

SAP S/4HANA PP/DS

Enables short-term capacity planning and maximizes production efficiency by reducing setup time and minimizing material and resource shortages.

SAP APO

Extensive suite of functions for planning and executing supply chain processes and providing better insight into the supply chain network.

Anaplan Connected Planning

Enables visibility across the network, facilitates collaboration and fuels the ability to sense and respond to shifts in demand and customer needs.

Oracle Supply Chain Planning

Cloud-based planning solution that helps devise and execute strategies to improve profitability, shape outcomes and accelerate innovation.

O9 Planning

AI-enabled integrated business planning solution that synchronizes processes across functions to drive visibility and accelerate planning.

ENABLERS

Our IP assets include industry-focused frameworks, prebuilt extractors, process maps, templates, workflows and adapters designed to mitigate migration risks and accelerate your time to value. Some of our innovative offerings include:

IBPNow

Collection of preconfigured cross-industry and industry-specific solutions focused on solving business problems, while driving higher user adoption and faster time to value.

IBP90B

Leverages Bristlecone’s IP to drive rapid time to value with SAP IBP S&OP and Demand Management through accelerated deployment – go live in just 90 working days.

IBP80B

Leverages Bristlecone’s IP to drive rapid time to value with SAP IBP S&OP through accelerated deployment – go live in just 80 working days.

Supply Network Application Platform (SNAP) Tool

Supply Network Application Platform that automates supply chain network validation and helps effortlessly identify network violations – easy to deploy, integrate and use.

Capacity Management Add-On for SAP IBP S&OP

Flexible cross-industry algorithm that supports rough cut capacity planning and capacity management decision-making using Bristlecone IP and an SAP IBP S&OP license.

SERVICES

BUSINESS CONSULTING SERVICES

From supply chain diagnostics and process analyses to readiness assessments and technology roadmapping, we’ll expertly guide you through every step of your digital transformation journey. We’ll get to know you and your business, take a deep dive into your current situation, and identify areas for improvement across processes, systems, reporting and user adoption. We’ll provide practical suggestions, create a framework for change and help you reach your goals.

TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

Our services span the technology enablement spectrum – from rationalizing and optimizing your existing infrastructure, to exposing and resolving security risks, to deploying your new supply chain planning solution. Our methodology is rooted in a framework that unlocks value, mitigates risk, limits disruptions and delivers quick wins. We achieve seamless transformation by expertly managing the many moving parts spanning platforms, projects, processes and people.

MANAGED SERVICES

We provide maintenance, support and end-of-life services. We also go beyond traditional support and managed services to help you achieve better business alignment, increase transparency, gain productivity, improve outcomes and react quickly to changing dynamics. Legacy system life can often be extended through performance enhancements that require no new technology. We also diagnose and fix problems caused by bottlenecks and out-of-control database growth.

CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Most change initiatives fall short of achieving the required adoption because they fail to take all the risks and challenges into account. We prevent this by looking at change from every angle and focusing on the people side of change. We help manage expectations, build a strategy for change, raise awareness, create and deliver communications and training programs, entice participation, increase skill and confidence, and ultimately, drive maximum user adoption.

ANALYTICS

Analytics leverage data across applications, data lakes and data warehouses to drive supply chain visibility, predictability and control. We can tap into internal and external data sources to arm a wide range of users with deep, actionable insights – and help you ensure informed, data-driven decision-making throughout the enterprise. Learn More