John Galt Solutions has been recognized by CIOReview Magazine as the recipient of “Top 20 Supply Chain Technology Solution Providers 2016 ,” based on our proprietary methodology, reflecting its position in the industry. This profile has been developed by the CIOReview research and editorial team based on insights from an interview with Annemarie Omrod, CEO.

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Annemarie Omrod, a tech connoisseur and CEO of John Galt Solutions—believes that “to build a profit-driven supply chain, it is integral to have an effective demand planning process in place.” Spending decades in serving the supply chain arena and diligently growing the customer base with one client after another, Anne informs that predicting and planning for the future the most arduous issue faced by the manufacturing companies. John Galt Solutions was setup in 1996 with a team of experts who have gone on to design best-of-breed supply chain, inventory, and forecast solutions to help organizations conduct accurate predictions and establish an effective planning process.

Anne derived the company name from the legendary fictional character—John Galt from Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged, who gathers the best minds for a cause. Befitting the name, the firm helps manufacturing companies to build a record of providing affordable, automated forecasting and inventory management solutions for building consumer-driven supply chains.

“We have been in the industry for over two decades now, and our core strength is the power of our demand planning and forecasting,” says Anne. John Galt has developed two product lines including—ForecastX Wizard for Excel—making business forecasting, safety stock analysis and DRP easy and simple. And Atlas Planning Suite, an enterprise supply chain planning software solution designed to streamline and simplify complex S&OP processes.

Both solutions are an easy-to-use forecast accelerator that enables organizations to predict the future of the business, and measure the result to be able to get the complete picture of their inventory, to facilitate their ever evolving consumer demand.

“With the growing consumer demand, manufacturers often require a quick and accurate forecast and cross functional feedback to support their S&OP process globally,” says Anne. Atlas Planning Suite is a strong operational planning system broken into three categories—demand, supply, and capacity. The results are rolled up providing the high level visibility to their Executive S&OP team.

With the growing consumer demand, manufacturers often require a quick and accurate forecast and cross functional feedback to support their S&OP process globally

“We help businesses to predict and plan their future, not only demand planning needs, but also to ensure their products are at the right place and at the right time,” notes Anne. Furthermore, John Galt with its capacity planning module enables planners to view a schedule of resources, understand which items fall within and outside the capacity, and deliver complete visibility of the unconstraint and constraint plans.

John Galt differentiates itself from the rest of the pack with its ability to implement solutions for $50 million or $15 billion firms. Recently a leading provider of packaged ice, Reddy Ice implemented John Galt’s Atlas Planning Suite to support its demand planning process. With Reddy Ice’s growing foot print of packaged ice, their sales and operations planning needed an automated system to capture and compile the available data, produce an accurate statistical forecast, and integrate that into the demand and supply plan. Leveraging the Atlas Planning Suite, Reddy Ice gained the ability to grow their businesses by increasing their profit through inventory and operational cost reductions.

Moving forward, John Galt will continue to meet their customers supply chain planning needs. In addition, “We are always seeking new enhancements; and in turn are hungry to improve our systems and help customers build plans to efficiently improve the bottom line,” extols Anne.

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Sazerac Shares Global Supply Chain Transformation Journey at Gartner Supply Chain Symposium 2023

Thursday, April 27, 2023

AUSTIN, Texas, - John Galt Solutions, automating supply chain planning to empower business leaders to make better decisions faster, invites attendees of the 2023 Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo in Orlando, FL, to the session, Spirit Distiller Sazerac Tackles Complexity One Sip at a Time. The live session on May 9, 2023, features Mitch Federman, Vice President of Supply Chain and Customer Service at Sazerac Company, one of the world's largest distillers of spirits and a John Galt Solutions customer.

Sazerac has experienced tremendous growth and now offers more than 450 brands, including Buffalo Trace, Fireball, Southern Comfort, Seagram VO Canadian, Myers Rum, Parrot Bay, and many other iconic spirits to more than 110 countries. Sazerac's rapid growth drove significant complexity and new challenges across its global supply chain, requiring a reimaging of processes supported by new technology to ensure distributor, retailer and consumer needs are met.

During the session, attendees will explore Sazerac's transformation journey. Mr. Federman will share the process to initiate change, the impressive results achieved and what is next for one of the world's largest spirits manufacturers. He will explore how Sazerac's global supply chain has improved inventory alignment to significantly reduce out of stock and improve service levels while embracing complexity to harness more granular levels of data to drive decisions and operations.

John Galt Solutions Delivers New Innovations to Drive Transparency, Accelerate Decision Speed and Optimize Complex Production Processes

Tuesday, August 01, 2023

Atlas Planning Platform's Latest Enhancements Bring Faster, More Intelligent Decisions to the End-to-End Supply Chain

AUSTIN, TX: John Galt Solutions, automating supply chain planning to empower business leaders to make better decisions faster, today announced the release of the latest enhancements to its the market-leading Atlas Planning Platform. The latest release further enables companies to connect, automate, and orchestrate data, decisions, and operations in the face of complex and ever-changing real-world challenges.

Today's competitive environment demands that global organizations plan and execute at the speed of the real-world while balancing business goals, service level guarantees and costs. The latest innovations to the Atlas Planning Platform deliver greater transparency and best-in class process speed across the supply chain to accelerate decision making.

"Our commitment to providing customers with the innovative technology they need to make decisions at the speed of the real-world is at the core of our development efforts," said Brian Begeman, R&D Leader at John Galt Solutions. "The latest enhancements to our Atlas Planning Platform further enable customers to accelerate data-driven decisions to navigate increased complexity, mitigate risks and realize the full potential of new opportunities."

Visualization and Transparency Capabilities in Scenario Planning

The Atlas Planning Platform's core capabilities include robust scenario planning that allows companies to mix-n-match any data construct, attribute, or characteristic into the design of the scenario. This enables planners to dial-in the best course of action and simulate various strategies. New capabilities allow users to easily visualize, manage, compare, and explore multiple scenario versions, paths, and branches to effortlessly understand the interconnections of various data elements across the scenario flow.

"Supply chain planners often have to model a complex mix of different factors, attributes, and parameters to understand the real-world impacts and assess trade-offs in the plan," continued Begeman. "Atlas simplifies these complex needs to deliver the flexibility and control needed to navigate today's hyper-connected environment with confidence and agility."

Optimization Innovations for Complex Processes

In this latest release, John Galt Solutions' Atlas Planning Platform introduces new optimization techniques to support highly complex production processes across discrete and process manufacturing by accounting for additional resource types, capacity models, and product usage scenarios.

"By further expanding our advanced optimization techniques, we continue to enhance the capabilities of Atlas to address the diverse needs of our customers," explained Matt Hoffman, Vice President of Product and Industry Solutions at John Galt Solutions. "This is a great example of how we help global manufacturers better utilize resources and create highly efficient production schedules that align with their unique requirements."

To further advance the Atlas Planning Platform, John Galt Solutions has made significant enhancements to deliver best-in class speed and performance enabling companies to maximize business objectives.

Top 20 Supply Chain Technology Solution Providers 2016

Company
John Galt Solutions

Management
Annemarie Omrod, CEO

Description
Forecasting and supply chain planning solutions to increase forecast accuracy, enhance collaboration, and optimize inventory in market-driven supply chains

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