Well, we have spoken at length about the value of optimized load building, and while we still believe it is the first thing you should do, there are significant savings to be made in the administration of supply and demand planning.

At the recent Gartner planning conference, Procter & Gamble spoke about how they have significantly reduced the amount of work that their planners needed to do.

Our experience with one of P&G’s competitors has also cut the number of things that must be touched—the labor savings alone have been great, and on-time, in-full shipments have improved.