Sales Force Optimization vs. Valogix Inventory Planner

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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Valogix is a good tool for a mid to large sized business who has a lot of SKUs and much data that needs to be analyzed to determine supply. It is best used by savvy people, as there is quite a learning curve to it. It integrates well with NetSuite, though I cannot speak to how well it may integrate with other ERP systems.

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• Storing Data
• Creating Multiple User IDs
• Retrieving the data with ease

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• Calculates how much it thinks you should have on-hand, based on demand and other factors.
• Integrates with NetSuite to include all your demand, supply, item and location data.
• Automatically determines seasonality for items.

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• 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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• The UI for their product (web application) is weak.
• Does not support multiple units of measure well.

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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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Compared to NetSuite's default demand planning module, Valogix shines. NetSuite's product is very weak, very manually-driven, and does not provide the precise level of control that Valogix does. We used NetSuite's module for a while before realizing it wouldn't work for us whatsoever. It might work for you if you have a simple product setup, few SKUs and only one location. But in that case, you probably don't need demand planning software anyway.

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• 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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• It has begun to reduce time for us taken up by running manual spreadsheet calculations.
• The training was time-consuming and difficult to onboard new users when we had turnover.

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