Executive Evaluation Process (EEP)
The GAINS® Method is an advanced planning and profit optimization method driven by the GAINS® (General Adaptive INventory Solution) technology. It enables executives to profit optimize the flow of material through their company and identify financial and customer service improvements that their current best practices have not identified. The science behind GAINS has been built through trial and error analysis and testing with over 500 corporations. Understanding how the stochastic algorithms, expert systems, and business rule sets enable an executive team to consistently maximize profits, ROA, and customer service levels is not intuitive. Because of this, GAINSystems has designed and tested a formal process that facilitates an executive team’s ability to cost effectively evaluate how and why the GAINS Method will enable them to dramatically improve corporate performance. This process is known as the Executive Evaluation Process (EEP). To date, every executive team that has gone through the this process has recognized the positive value of the process and has commented on how that value has helped them to more effectively position their company for improved profit, asset utilization, and market share growth. The 6 steps of the EEP are outlined below:
Solving for the Enterprise
GAINSystems, via the GAINS solution, has empowered companies to simultaneously reduce inventory and operating costs, while increasing customer service levels as well as revenues and market share (or return-on-budget or repair operations). GAINS accomplishes this by complementing ERP execution systems with robust and specialized Supply Chain Planning and Optimization. Across hundreds of implementation and consulting projects, GAINSystems has augmented this methodology and empirically demonstrated that cost savings and inventory reductions achieved through GAINS can multiply the results of other improvement initiatives such as ERP enhancement programs, Lean Manufacturing, and/or Six Sigma projects. To benchmark your company’s performance against similar companies who have optimized their business, click here.The supply chain's purpose is to provide the customer with a requested product, when requested, while maximizing profit (or minimizing cost) of the provider. Companies need a Supply Chain Planning and Optimization methodology that optimizes at the detailed level in light of customer service targets. To accomplish this, organizations must solve a complex equation that analyzes the demand and supply patterns for every SKU (item), at every location, while factoring total annual costs, dependencies of items and locations, and the expected behavior of customers and suppliers. These inter-dependencies among SKUs and locations reach across operational silo boundaries--thus, one must solve for the enterprise.The answer to this complex stochastic (i.e., probability-based) challenge is GAINSystems' General Adaptive Inventory Solution (GAINS).