New Horizon Supply Chain Planning Suite vs. Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Management (SCM)

New Horizon Supply Chain Planning Suite is a very user-friendly system which gives you the latitude to change your forecasting models based on the product and sales trends. It is also very easy to export and import data to transfer information to and from Excel files as it uses an Excel like platform. Therefore, it gives you the control to be able to control your forecast where needed due to sales promotions or loss of sales distribution.

Oracle SCM Cloud is a flexible product that offers many solutions for users. It can work for large and small companies across many industries. The beauty is that you don't have to own the entire cloud suite to take advantage of these cloud products. The products are developing and evolving rapidly.

Incentivized

• Forecasting product sales
• Displays key data points such as historical sales and trends
• Allows control of forecasting models based on product and sales type
• Very user friendly and Excel compatible
• Interfaces with other systems well

• In Order promising options, we have lead time based, available to promise, capable to promise and profitable to promise. So the promising rules will select best available options amongst them to benefit the customer and the enterprise.
• Allocation by demand ensures that the scarce supply of products are reserved for the most important customers which is a value proposition for any organization.
• The entire procurement process can be automated, which will be executed without manual interventions. This will in-turn improve productivity and ensure compliance is followed in each step.

Incentivized

• Would like to be able to form my own functions using information already in the system.
• When switching back and forth from worksheets and sub-worksheets you can lose your place because it does not always go back to the same place.

• UI - Needs a definite update. Tool can do wonders if UI is intuitive.
• Excel based data doesn't upload easily.
• No open APIs, integration is not possible with other tools.
• Extra charges for a module for integration.
• Implementation is not easy.

Incentivized

We were using Demantra systems for our forecasting needs, but as new versions became available and old versions, which we had, were discontinued we found the need to either upgrade or look for a new system. The Demantra upgrade was very costly and New Horizon fit our needs while being on the cloud, so most all of the upgrades were done behind the scenes with no down time. The implementation was a breeze, and the customer service was always there when you needed it. Overall, it was a very good choice for us to make the change.

I have never used anything other than Oracle SCM Cloud, so I am not sure about similar products in the market. Having said that, I still feel that it is definitely a value-added product for any manufacturing organization. It is cloud-based so it can be integrated with any modern other cloud-based systems if we have the middleware.

Incentivized

• Helps us maintain over an 80% forecast accuracy rating with our top 20 products.
• Gives us the information needed to plan our production schedules effectively.
• Helps us plan our inventory needs to hold the correct amount of inventory as the business requires.

• There is a large reduction in man hours spent attempting to manually create the traceability matrix
• There is a strong involvement of different BUs and collaboration on the requirements creation process
• The time to develop and approve requirements has been shortened

Incentivized