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WIX Filters (a division of Affinia) selects GAINS to profit optimize its manufacturing and distribution operations. "By using GAINS to drive our factory with optimized inventory policies and customer service levels, we were able to reduce set ups by 38%, exceed our targeted customer service levels, and drop over a $2.5 million to our bottom line in the first year. I was amazed at how quickly GAINSystems was able to install and interface their technology to our ERP solution so that we were live and tracking financial benefits in 8 weeks," states the Corporate Distribution Manager.

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Benco Dental, Inc. increases sales by 7% and reduces their inventory investment by 12% during the 2008-2009 economic recession. "By maintaining high customer service levels and lower inventories, GAINS helped us to grow revenues and profits in a down economy," states the VP Marketing of Benco Dental.

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GRACO validates the profit optimization power of GAINSystems' exclusive "Cross-enterprise Analytic Suite," that dynamically optimizes the least cost plans and policies for every item at every location. "Not only have we reduced inventories and operating costs with GAINS, but it has provided us with a fundamental S&OP support solution across the enterprise. The S&OP tools that bolted on to our ERP systems provided data, but GAINS provides accurate and profit optimal analysis. That is critical for both short and long term strategic and executive decision making," states the Vice President, Operations at GRACO.
 
   

 

 

Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS)
GAINSystems is able to
deliver the GAINS™
solution through the
Internet via access to our
remotely-hosted application

 

AMR Research, Aberdeen and Gartner advocate the advantages of providing best-of-breed business solutions via remotely-hosted applications, now termed Software-as-a-Service or ‘SaaS’.  Though providing remote access to application users on a subscription basis is not a new model, it is gaining popularity once again with the advent of web-based solutions and increased specialization of solution sets.  Of late, SaaS models are being used for mission-critical solutions including Customer Relationship Management, ERP, Salesforce Automation and Supply Chain Management.

After a brief implementation and training phase, GAINSystems is able to deliver the GAINS™ solution through the Internet via access to our remotely-hosted application to optimize inventory reducing both inventory investment and expediting costs.  Several Customers are already using this approach with proven success.

Typically, the attributes of a successful GAINS SaaS user will be a company with one or more of the following:

  • Rapid implementation
  • A need to minimize internal IT complexity and resource usage
  • A desire to avoid larger, initial capital expenditures and distribute expenses with accrued benefits
  • A desire to leverage best-of-breed solutions while continuing to work strictly within an ERP-centric architecture
  • Smaller total supply chain costs (e.g., less than $3,000,000 in inventory and less than $200,000 in expediting and/or lost-sales costs)
  • A widely dispersed planning community, both domestically and offshore
  • A less-voluminous set of supply chain data (e.g., fewer than 20,000 SKUs)
  • Longer lead times and/or a focus on policy optimization, not replenishment execution, improvements

When a customer pursues the GAINS SaaS approach, GAINSystems’ Consultants conduct all IT-related tasks necessary to interface with the customer’s legacy data and they also conduct the training required for both planners and managers to become self-sufficient.

Fee plans are developed on a customer-specific basis and are available for a 24, 36, and, on occasion, greater than 36-month term.