Vanguard System™
What Sets Us Apart
Vanguard System™
Dynamic capability drives dynamic perspective. The reverse is also true in defining risk analysis, cost modeling and business intelligence.
Vanguard System™ brings real-time, enterprise collaboration to all facets of business modeling and quantitative management. Our system bolsters your collective efficiency with ironclad capabilities:
- Modeling and Simulation
- Artificial Intelligence
- Visually-Aided Modeling
- Predictive Advanced Analytics
Features
Vanguard System is our web-server and development universe. It is both creator and host of all Vanguard innovation.
As a client solution, Vanguard System gives you access to a dynamic and collaborative work environment with best-in-market tools for modeling and simulation, application development, and predictive analytics. From any device, anywhere in the world, you and your authorized suppliers and customers can exchange secure, real-time info on material availability, demand estimates, and other vital intel that strengthens your shared value chain.
- Synthesize inputs from multiple remote users in real time – anywhere, with any browser or device
- Run exhaustive simulations faster than any competitor – 1,500 times faster than spreadsheets and virtually unlimited speed with Vanguard Grid Computing
- Funnel outputs directly into existing ERP systems
- Tap source data directly to eliminate spreadsheet cut-and-paste, manual processing, errors, version confusion, and static reports
- Promote adoption of a highly intuitive interface, time-saving automation, dynamic reporting options (dollars, units, etc.), and minimal required software or statistics knowledge
- Monitor crystal-clear audit trails to easily manage user access, assumption changes, and proposals
- Let world-class advanced analytics determine the optimal statistical method for each forecast, or select an override to reflect foreknowledge not present in your data
- Flag and factor assumption biases and bias migrations over time
- Drill down through line items to reveal forecast assumptions in micro-detail
- Roll up data for innumerable macro views. Slice and dice across units, orders, customers, folders etc.
- Forecast demand for new, mature, and inter-stage products
Why Vanguard System?
Vanguard System is knowledge-centric rather than data-centric. In addition to history, it captures management estimates and functional knowledge from throughout the organization to synthesize rigorous and realistic business models. This emphasis on knowledge focuses support on strategic decision-making.
Vanguard Analytics in action
In addition to Monte Carlo simulation, Advanced Analytics can apply multiple advanced techniques to new-product forecasting or combine various methods into a single forecast.
- Risk analysis: Will our launch gain traction? Will our project run over budget? Vanguard System™ helps you understand and plan for uncertainty.
- Cost modeling: Increase the speed and reliability of cost modeling throughout your organization. Complex models made easy.
- Business Intelligence: Capture management estimates and internal knowledge from throughout the organization to synthesize high-level business models.
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Increase in inventory utilization
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Improvement in forecast accuracy
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Reduction in inventory spending
Automate your supply chain planning
With Vanguard Predictive Planning™, the supply chain planning process can be automated through artificial intelligence, prescriptive analytics, a robust rules engine, and extensive workflow.
Planners can make potential overrides and provide oversight for exceptions. Through a unified IBP platform, organizations can understand the end-to-end implications of any sales forecast or demand change in real-time.
Client Results
“Billions [of dollars] in operating margin and trillions in market capitalization separate supply chain winners from losers,” according to AMR Research. With Vanguard Predictive Planning™, best-in-class planners see:
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Reduction in inventory
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Increase in perfect-order fulfillment (complete, accurate, and on time)
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Shorter cash-to-cash cycle times
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Fewer stock-outs than competitors
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