Our Partners

We maintain strong working relationships with software companies providing tools for strategic supply chain design. We also have good working relationships with a number of other services companies and independent consultants.

Llamasoft Inc

We have used Llamasoft's Supply Chain Guru successfully in a number of projects. We have also worked directly with Llamasoft's CEO, Don Hicks, over a number of years to extend the capabilities in Guru. By far the strongest feature of Guru is the integrated support for cost optimisation and supply chain simulation. Guru allows sophisticated models to be developed relatively quickly.

Here is how Llamasoft describe themselves:

"LLamasoft provides software and expertise to design and modify supply chain network operations. Supply Chain Guru™ is the leading supply chain strategic planning application available in the market today. It enables companies to model their supply chain operations, optimize the structure for cost and profitability, and simulate proposed changes, allowing users to implement their changes with confidence."

"Clients use LLamasoft’s Supply Chain Guru™ to identify major financial and operational improvements in transportation, inventory, sourcing, and production applications."

"The privately-held company, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was founded in 1998 as the first company to combine enterprise-level simulation with full-feature network and inventory optimization within a single modeling structure."

Precision Retail LLC

Precision Retail LLC is a specialist consulting and software development company focused on modelling and analytics for retail. Promotional and markdown pricing, intelligent size-buying, assortment optimization with store profiling, replenishment buying and store replenishments, allocation with optimal pack configurations and analytically derived store trends are some of its focal areas. As a recent instance of its work, Precision Retail have developed the Seasonal Analytics Engine to improve store allocation decisions of seasonal merchandise and as an antidote for markdowns. Seasonal Analytics is being rolled-out by a large US retailer for the Fall 2006 season to improve allocations to stores during the selling cycle and avoid/reduce markdowns.