Frepple

Pros

frePPLe has addressed two key areas in planning and forecasting for us:
- Out of stocks (= lost sales)
- Overstocks (= inefficient use of working capital)

The business benefits are particularly significant where the item / location combinations being planned are in the 10's or 100's of thousands.

Feedback from customers we have worked with is that in the overwhelming majority of cases frePPLe consistently outplans humans, and is capable of taking 95% of the grunt work away from the planning function. This frees up planners to work with the products, product categories and stores which are exceptional.

Cons

We haven't had any issues with the core functionality, and where there have been gaps, these have been addressed through custom development.

Pros

FrePPLE's interface is intuitive. For manufacturers who are doing scheduling, production & inventory planning and supply chain forecasting manually it's much quicker and easier to adjust schedules, run what if scenarios, move jobs around by click on drag on the Gantt chart and solve constraints in FrePPLE.

Cons

Like all IT solutions that solve complex problems, FrePPLe requires precise, phased implementation.