Flowlity vs ToolsGroup Demand Planning

Flowlity is an AI-powered supply chain forecasting and planning solution for manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. Its platform covers demand planning, inventory optimization, supply planning, sales and operations planning, and collaborative planning. Probabilistic forecasts are generated at SKU level from a company’s sales history and supply chain data, helping planners account for uncertainty in demand or lead times. Recommendations can factor in minimum order quantities, batch sizes, full truck or container loads, and Incoterms. The AI monitors spikes, anomalies, and stockouts, and corrects outliers with synthetic resampling. Flowlity lists connectors for SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Cegid, Odoo, and Sage, plus API and SFTP data transfers. Flowlity Lite costs €249 a month, supports up to 5,000 SKUs, and relies on CSV uploads rather than native ERP integration. Enterprise pricing depends on SKU count or inventory value and includes a one-time implementation fee. The company says customer data is hosted in Azure data centers in France, isolated by customer, and encrypted in transit and at rest.

ToolsGroup Demand Planning combines probabilistic forecasting, AI forecast augmentation, and real-time demand sensing for organizations planning demand and inventory. Its forecasting is designed for intermittent, seasonal, long-tail, lumpy, and promotion-driven demand. Demand sensing analyzes real-time signals for changing patterns, while collaborative planning aligns sales, operations, and supply teams around a consensus forecast and workflow. Demand shaping uses pricing, promotions, and inventory-aware decisions to influence demand. ToolsGroup says its self-adaptive AI improves accuracy across a product’s lifecycle while reducing bullwhip effects. Decion is designed to integrate with SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, and other operational, planning, and data platforms. The product is described for manufacturers, aftermarket organizations, wholesale distributors, and retailers. It runs on the web; the cloud service uses segregated customer environments at application and database levels. ToolsGroup says stored data is encrypted with AES-256 and data in transit is protected using TLS with certificates using at least 4096-bit RSA keys. Pricing is on request and depends on capabilities, scope, users, integrations, and implementation requirements. ToolsGroup was founded in Boston in 1993.