Kinaxis Practice: We make life easy for demand, supply and inventory planners
Ditch the spreadsheet chaos and start planning in real time.
We eliminate the manual grind for demand, supply, and inventory planners, transforming disconnected data into synchronized, stress-free decisions. See how you can conquer supply chain volatility without the Excel fatigue.
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Databricks Practice: Simbus Velo for Fashion and Lifestyle Retailers
Winners stock out. Slow sellers pile up.
of inventory is sold in end-of-season sale — after only ~45 days of full-price shelf life
design-to-shelf lead time, committed against a selling season of ~12 weeks
size-set breakage on the floor — core sizes gone, fringe sizes left for markdown
of brands still buy to long-range forecasts — for styles with no sales history
of in-season fixes — transfers, restocks — are manual, planner by planner
of stock carried by Indian apparel retailers — industry days-on-hand hit an all-time high in 2024, +14% vs pre-2020
Your POS already generates the sell-through signal every day. What's missing is a way to act on it at store × option speed, before the range sells down and the season window closes.
Want to Sell More of Your Range at Full Price, Store by Store, Every Night
Explore Simbus VeloWhy SAP and ERP Fall Short on Demand, Supply, and Inventory Planning
Why SAP/ERP Falls Short
- ERP is built to record what already happened (orders, receipts, transactions) — not to plan for what should happen next
- Demand, supply, and inventory planning sit in separate modules, connected only through slow, sequential, batch-driven MRP runs that can take hours to recalculate
- By the time a plan refreshes, the business has moved on — planners end up reacting to yesterday's picture instead of today's reality
- ERP can't quickly model "what-if" scenarios or show how one decision ripples across demand, supply, and inventory together
- Planners compensate with manual spreadsheets — a workaround that's error-prone, dependent on tribal knowledge, and impossible to keep in sync, ultimately showing up as missed service levels, excess inventory, and constant firefighting
The Kinaxis Advantage
- Sits on top of SAP/ERP as a single, concurrent planning engine — no need to rip and replace
- Connects demand, supply, and inventory in one live data model instead of disconnected modules
- Every change (forecast update, supply disruption, new order) propagates instantly across the entire network
- Planners can run scenarios and see trade-offs in minutes instead of days
- Replaces offline spreadsheet workarounds with synchronized, confident, forward-looking decisions
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Explore FAQ sectionTwo Practices. One Mission.
We go deep on three platforms where we know we can make the biggest difference: Kinaxis Maestro and Kinaxis® Planning One™ for supply chain planning, and Databricks for data & AI.
Kinaxis Maestro Services
Expert-led implementation, application management, and value realisation for organisations running or adopting Kinaxis Maestro.
- Implementation & Programme Recovery
- Application Management & Support (AMS)
- Post Go-Live Value Realisation
- SAP APO / IBP Migration to Maestro
- Supply Chain Analytics & Reporting
- Kinaxis Health Check (Free Assessment)
Kinaxis® Planning One™
Fast-track supply chain planning for mid-market companies. Go live in weeks with a pre-configured, cloud-native solution built on Kinaxis.
- Planning One Implementation & Go-Live
- Pre-built Templates & Accelerators
- ERP Integration & Data Onboarding
- User Enablement & Training
- Post Go-Live Support & Optimisation
- Upgrade Path to Kinaxis Maestro
Databricks Services
Accelerate your data platform, build production-grade ML pipelines, and unlock enterprise-scale AI on the Databricks Lakehouse.
- Lakehouse Architecture & Migration
- Data Engineering & Pipeline Automation
- ML & AI Model Development
- Supply Chain Analytics on Databricks
- Databricks + Kinaxis Integration
- Unity Catalog & Data Governance
Deep domain knowledge enabling outcome-based pricing models
Kinaxis
Short shelf lives and batch constraints turn a late plan into expired stock or a stockout on a critical product.
Campaign runs, yield swings and co-products make the plan stale the moment a batch changes.
OEM schedule swings and call-offs hit the plan daily, while visibility into your suppliers' suppliers stops at your own gate.
Product lifecycles are shorter than component lead times, so you are always short of one part or long on the last generation.
Promotions and retail sell-through move faster than the plan, leaving shelves empty on winners and short-dated stock unsold.
Complex bills of material and long lead times mean one missing component can stall the whole order.
Long-lead cells and modules, shifting project schedules and tight commissioning windows leave capital tied up or sites waiting on a single part.
Databricks VELO
Seasonal ranges and frequent drops; core styles stock out mid-week while fashion lines pile up.
Deep size runs, and blanket safety stock tying up cash across every door.
Never-out-of-stock core running alongside seasonal colourway launches.
Wide option counts, shallow depth and constant newness churn.
What Sets Us Apart
Six reasons why outcome-focused companies choose Simbus over large SIs.
Speed to Value
We work in weeks, not quarters. Our rapid diagnostic approach gets you to tangible results faster.
Post-Go-Live ROI Accountability
Engagements tied to measurable KPIs: forecast accuracy, inventory reduction, planning efficiency.
Commercial Transparency
Fixed-price options, transparent pricing, and exit clauses that protect your downside. No hidden costs.
Named Senior Teams
The team in your proposal is the team that delivers. No bait-and-switch with junior resources once you've signed.
Pure-Play Focus
We only work with Kinaxis and Databricks. 60+ certified consultants with deep module expertise.
Customer First Approach
Our only obligation is to deliver better outcomes for your business.
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Key Takeaways
- Digitise or die. A digital twin layers your physical network, real-time signals and simulation so you can find the best route when disruption hits.
- Complexity has outgrown human judgement. A supply chain has tens of thousands of interlinked variables. A digital twin turns that complexity into insight so you can react with agility.
- ERP and Excel can't keep pace. ERP is a strong transaction system built for stable businesses. In volatile markets, planners stuck at 60% forecast accuracy lose to competitors reaching 70–80% with advanced planning.
- Change the wheels while the bus is running. Digital twins have cut engineering cost by 5–50% and manufacturing cost by 2–5%, adding 1–2% to EBIT. Start with scope, data and design, prove it with an MVP, then scale.
- Don't wait for perfect data. No organisation has perfect data. Start anyway, and use the digital twin itself to surface and fix data problems as you deploy.
- Rethink the process, not just the tool. Doing the same spreadsheet-era work only faster is a recipe for failure. Executive sponsorship keeps teams from carrying old habits into the new platform.
- Connect everything concurrently. Demand, supply, distribution, manufacturing and purchasing must sit in one end-to-end model. The more real-world detail, such as lead times, yields and bills of material, the better the decisions.
- Speed and scenarios decide outcomes. A plan that waits for an overnight batch run is too late. Model alternatives such as a second supplier or re-prioritised customers, score them on weighted KPIs, and push the winner straight back to ERP.
- Visibility is not transparency. Knowing a shipment is late is visibility. Knowing exactly which customer orders, revenue and factories it hits is transparency, and that is what lets you act before a disruption spreads.
What Our Clients Say
We strive to excel in all our engagements with our customers, and the endorsements from our customers encourage us to keep pushing the boundaries.
Simbus has helped us automate complex supply chain processes and integrate diverse enterprise systems, including SAP, resulting in significant business benefits and improved agility across our supply chain.
Simbus enabled us to achieve a "single version of truth" on all our plans, improved our inventory visibility, reduced our planning effort and ensured that our order execution is on an improvement path.
Simbus is helping Myntra.com to optimize inventory more accurately, enabling us to identify and plan to sell the right products, for the right prices and in the right numbers.
What makes us come together is Simbus's relentless commitment to delivering tangible value to the organization. They work as part of the team rather than a third-party consultant, which is rare — one of the best partners to work with for turnarounds.
Simbus, on the Cordys platform, unlocks more value from our existing SAP systems, speeding up our ordering process and giving our sales team access to accurate customer information.
We selected Dassault Systèmes' 'My Collection' industry solution experience to help us enhance product line architecture, technical product development, sourcing, costing and pre-production processes. The value we see combined with the industry knowledge of Simbus Technologies is a winning proposition.
We chose Dassault Systèmes' 'My Collection' industry solution experience to replace our existing PLM solution after a thorough evaluation of competing options. The technological superiority of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and industry knowledge of Simbus Technologies is a winning proposition.
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