Oracle® Demantra Advanced Forecasting and Demand Modeling enables you to automate the analysis of complex demand patterns, simulate an unlimited number of demand shaping scenarios, and leverage the power of advanced analytics to generate more accurate forecasts. With better insights to the true drivers of demand, your organization will be equipped to better sense and shape demand.

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Supply Chain Executives are challenged by constantly evolving environments in which to make business process improvements.

• How will up-front software/hardware licensing and implementation costs affect ROI estimates?
• What is the total cost of ownership based on the support team needed to maintain and later improve processes?
• Will my internal team quickly adopt to new systems and practices without continued help?

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The Oracle Value Chain Planning applications provide an enabling technology for firms to enable demand driven value networks, but the software by itself is not enough. Firms need to architect the business processes correctly and seamlessly integrate these processes into their value executions systems in order to better serve their customers and drive non-value added costs from their enterprise.

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Ensuring that your trade promotion programs meet your goals while matching or exceeding industry best practices

Our Approach to a Solution
Through our experience with hundreds of companies in a wide variety of product categories selling through every channel, we have an in-depth understanding of the entire breadth of trade channels including grocery, drug, big box, department stores, specialty, mass merchants, and others, as well as traditional dealer channels. Our deep and comprehensive knowledge of the processes and technologies that ensure success makes us the logical choice to provide rapid, precise and trustworthy intelligence to the (Client) team.

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Oracle Value Chain Planning (VCP) provides a broad set of best in class applications for Forecasting, Sales & Operations Planning, and Supply Chain Planning. A brief overview of the various applications can be found by clicking here.

These Oracle VCP applications are now offered to JD Edwards Enterprise One 9.0 customers with standard integration to Oracle VCP release 12.1. Inspirage was the first consulting firm to successfully implement this new integration and can help your company leverage the capabilities of Oracle Value Chain Planning for JD Edwards.

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Constraint based optimization systems are notorious for being overly complicated, hard to understand, and difficult to implement and sustain. The last thing you want to do is to deal with a system that is difficult to comprehend and use. We understand that you are more interested in running your business efficiently and profitably rather than deal with system headaches.

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Is your company bogged down with lack of planning systems capability to successfully plan and monitor out your business? Do you wish you had all the critical information at your fingertips to plan and execute your business plan?

With changing nature of business conditions and new competitive threats in the market place it is natural to expect more from your business applications. Numerous companies like you have recognized the importance of new and improved business application capabilities.

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Demand management is a key component and is often the starting point of a supply chain. It drives the tactical, operational and strategic business plans of organizations. An effective demand management process captures information from all sources of demands, considers causal factors, allows collaboration between internal and external stakeholders to arrive at a consensus forecast that drives all the other supply chain related processes.

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Making improvements to your supply chain is a marathon… not a sprint!

At Inspirage, we believe that going live with systems and processes is simply not enough to achieve an organization’s full potential. With experts trained in real business results, we know the real potential lies in creating systems to baseline the performance while generating the opportunity to make continuous improvements. Inspirage can help companies achieve this continuous improvement goal by staffing organizations with dedicated and knowledgeable consultants.

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Oracle acquired Demantra in mid-2006 and effectively replaced Oracle Demand Planning with Demantra Spectrum as the future demand management platform. This essentially means that the Oracle Demand Planning customers get limited support and all the future enhancements are made to Demantra suite of products. Both Demantra and Oracle Demand Planning helps organizations achieve the same objectives but Demantra is much more robust, scalable, feature-rich and easy to use. That is one of the principal reasons why Demantra was acquired by Oracle.

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