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Coupa Supply Chain Design & Planning

Score5 out of 10

14 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Coupa Supply Chain Design & Planning?

Coupa Supply Chain Design & Planning, powered by Llamasoft (acquired by Coupa in November, 2020) enables users to run a resilient and agile supply chain with the help of a comprehensive data model and AI. Helps users to democratize the power of intelligent supply chain decisions across the enterprise.

Categories & Use Cases

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Design your optimal supply chain network while balancing cost, risk, and sustainability.
Leverage pre-built app templates to support decision making related to production planning, inventory and transportation optimization.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Coupa Supply Chain Design & Planning has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Scenario-based planning

    Software that allows users to run simulations for different scenarios, based on changes in circumstances like level of demand, in order to plan for all likely outcomes.

    Category average: 8

  • Supply network coordination

    Improving supply chain performance by aligning the plans and objectives of each partner in the supply chain (e.g. producers and transportation and logistics).

    Category average: 8

  • Route optimization

    Ability to use prior delivery data and information about current travel conditions to pick the most efficient route.

    Category average: 7.9

Areas for Improvement

  • Demand forecasting

    Similar to demand sensing, but draws on more historical data to create a forecast of future demand.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Sales and operations planning

    Ability to plan future sales and operations based off of current and historical data.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Supply forecasting

    Ability to use past and current data on producers, suppliers, and international trade to predict what trends might impact supply in the future.

    Category average: 7.6

Reviews

What users are saying about Coupa Supply Chain Design & Planning.
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Supply Chain Modeling

Incentivized
Casey Koopmans
Principal Data Scienctist at Amway (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have used Coupa for network optimization a while back, determining strategy related to where our facilities should be located, what facilities should support production for which markets, etc. I have recently used it for safety stock optimization and inventory strategy-related goals. The SSO models manage about $100M in inventory for the company I work for.

Pros

  • Network Optimization
  • Safety Stock Optimization
  • Transportation Optimization

Cons

  • Community user group
  • Free, accessible training
  • Simulation to solve the problem...not just to test the optimized solution against

Most Important Features

  • Safety stock optimization
  • Network optimization
  • Transportation optimization

Return on Investment

  • Service level up
  • Inventory down
  • Sensing issues with our supply chain in near real-time

Other Software Used

Alteryx, Tableau Desktop, Microsoft Excel

Llamasoft Supply Chain Guru review

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Corporate (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Easy to learn. The help menu is self-explanatory.
  • Very easy to import and export data and has multiple ways of modeling.
  • Nice visualizations.

Cons

  • Could add a bit more tutorials.
  • The student version has a limitation of 100 sites and 10 products.
  • Need to include simulation tutorial.
  • Need to include simulation modeling tutorial and sample models.

Return on Investment

  • Has been a good practical learning tool for students.
  • Has helped in getting jobs.

Other Software Used

JMP Statistical Discovery Software from SAS

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