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Sales Force Optimization vs. Smart IP&O Application Suite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Sales Force Optimization
Score 7.8 out of 10
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Smart IP&O Application Suite
Score 0.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Smart Software, now part of Epicor, is a provider of demand planning, inventory optimization and supply chain analytics solutions. Smart Inventory Planning & Optimization (IP&O) is a suite of native web applications, helping inventory carrying organizations reduce inventory, improve service levels and streamline Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning.N/A
Pricing
Sales Force OptimizationSmart IP&O Application Suite
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Sales Force OptimizationSmart IP&O Application Suite
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
Sales Force OptimizationSmart IP&O Application Suite
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
Sales Force Optimization
6.9
1 Ratings
13% below category average
Smart IP&O Application Suite
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Ratings
Inventory tracking10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic reordering7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Location management4.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Serial number and batch tracking8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Barcode scanning5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Automation rules8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting and analytics7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Fulfillment6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Backorder management6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Returns management6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Bill of materials management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Item kitting5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Invoicing6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Forecasting7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Accounting integration9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Point of sale integration8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Sales Force OptimizationSmart IP&O Application Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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User Testimonials
Sales Force OptimizationSmart IP&O Application Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
Seamless Distribution Systems
Well suited for larger organizations, especially product-based companies. Where we store customer details, particularly for the product that the customer has enquired. It may not be well suited for smaller organisations. It has so many features and advantages, times it can be overwhelming for someone who have no experience of using the software before.
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Epicor Software
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Pros
Seamless Distribution Systems
  • Storing Data
  • Creating Multiple User IDs
  • Retrieving the data with ease
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Cons
Seamless Distribution Systems
  • Adding dashboards to draw analysis
  • Sometime it takes too much time to load and even crashes
  • Integrating with other database software and visualization tools
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Alternatives Considered
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Against other products Sales Force Optimization is much better when while entering the customer data. Also very convenient to add new users and easy. And the mobile apps are well-optimised on. Works well without any lags or crashes. Whereas other software struggle to work well on mobile platforms especially on android devices.
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Return on Investment
Seamless Distribution Systems
  • analyzing the existing leads
  • conversion rate has been increased by around 15% from the old leads
  • Tracking the manpower attrition rate
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ScreenShots

Smart IP&O Application Suite Screenshots

Screenshot of Smart Demand Planner™ is a consensus demand planning and statistical forecasting solution available on Smart’s Inventory Planning and Optimization Platform, Smart IP&O. Smart Demand Planner, powered by the SmartForecasts® Engine, aligns strategic business forecasting at any level of your product hierarchy with granular forecasts of the item mix to improve forecast accuracy. It provides a statistically sound, objective foundation for your sales and operations planning process (S&OP). Smart Demand Planner’s collaborative workbench enables forecast overrides to be applied, imported, reviewed, and approved by authorized users driving the consensus plan. Forecast accuracy is measured, helping ensure that the best possible forecast is delivered to the business at both the aggregate and item mix levels. The result is more efficient sales planning, budgeting, production scheduling, ordering, and inventory planning.Screenshot of Smart Inventory Optimization (SIO™) is available on Smart’s Inventory Planning and Optimization Platform, Smart IP&O. It delivers inventory policy decision support and the means to share, collaborate, and track the impact of your inventory planning policy. This can help realize millions in savings by improving customer service and reducing excess stock. You can forecast metrics such as service level, fill rate, holding costs, ordering costs, and stock out costs. Users can identify overstocks and understocks, adjust stocking policie when demand changes, share proposed policies with other stakeholders, collect feedback, and establish a consensus inventory plan. And unlike traditional inventory planning systems that rely on rule of thumb approaches or require the user to arbitrarily set suboptimal service level targets, Smart Inventory Optimization prescribes the optimal service levels for you. Users can optionally assign service level constraints to ensure the optimization engine respects business rules. SIO provides the required inventory planning parameters for a variety of replenishment policies such as Reorder Point/Order Quantity, Min/Max, Safety Stock Planning, and Order Up to levels.Screenshot of Smart Operational Analytics (SOA™) is a native web reporting solution available on Smart’s Inventory Planning and Optimization Platform, Smart IP&O. It provides a fast, easily understood, current perspective on the state of your inventory, its performance against critical metrics, actual supplier lead times, opportunities to rebalance stocks across facilities, and helps you uncover root causes of operational inefficiencies. SOA automatically refreshes as often as you’d like providing all stakeholders immediate, up-to-date reporting on your operations and performance. You’ll have constant visibility of inventory levels, orders, shipments, and supplier performance to ensure you’ll always be in tune with the state of your operations and resolve issues before they become problems. Enhance visibility. Improve responsiveness. Increase your bottom line.