Atlas Planning

Vorteile

Very easy to configure and customize. There are so many options and ways of working. You can accommodate many business processes in this application and make them better.

The ability to create hierarchies and organize data is very important.

Ease of use is a key feature.

Using across the global supply chain and global locations. The application supports multiple business units and processes within our organization.

Nachteile

Always room for improvement for the software. John Galt is very receptive to hearing our ideas for improvements and they provide monthly releases.

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Vorteile

The Atlas software works equally well for visually oriented users as well as those that prefer data in table format. The flexibility for the user to modify custom views is very straight forward both in graphical views as well a data tables. The ease of setting up hierarchy views of your data that are drillable makes the tool set perfect for using in all levels of planning process. Atlas is adaptable to various time segments for planning, day, week, month, etc and has proven an ability to adapt to support our changing business.

There is a wide range of forecast tools within the Demand Planning Engine that can support the basic user with time series models or grow with user knowledge into more advanced forecasting methods. Integration with other other systems has been very straight forward with ease of import and export of data.

Nachteile

A key weakness of the software has been reporting capability within the base package. This is made up for by the ease of data export to other reporting BI tools.

Vorteile

The forecasting is outstanding and makes us confident that good information is flowing from the demand side to the supply side.

Nachteile

The setup can be a challenge, along with maintaining resources and BOMs.

Vorteile

The best thing about John Galt is their ability to grow with you. We have now incorporated 6 companies under our umbrella and all are using John Galt. The ease of training new users to the software has been very helpful in getting new people on board with our planning. Additionally because it is easy to use new user likes the system.

Nachteile

Maybe reporting but I do prefer a separate reporting tool that utilizes the Galt information

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Vorteile

Easy to configure to match current business processes. The software is very flexible, enabling extensive configuration to meet business needs without customizing in a way that would make upgrading difficult. Ability to create and use multiple hierarchies is a huge win, as well as to integrate into our supply planning process.

Nachteile

The ability to configure everything adds complexity, so you have to get things right on the setup side. The John Galt team has been great in helping us in this regard, both adding insight into best practices and making the tool work the way we need it to.