1. i2 Demand Planner and SAP comparison

2. APO 3.0 Demand Planning Functionalities SAP APO Demand Planner Weaknesses No forecast dis-aggregation techniques No web enable objects No OLAP Reporting No attach rate planning capabilities Data is stored in relational database as info cubes resulting in serious performance issues while aggregation and disaggregating.

3. Common i2 SCM / SAP R/3 Customers 3Com Abbott Laboratories ACME Metals Alcatel Altos Hornos Mexico(AHMSA) SA de C.V. AMP Apple Computers Large supplier to Semiconductor Industry Arima Computer Corporation Ashland Oil AST Research Avnet Baker Hughes INTEQ BancTec Barnes and Nobel Bayer BHP Steel BP Amoco Black & Decker Borden, Inc. Bose Bridgestone Australia Ltd. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company British American Tobacco British Steel Caterpillar Coca-Cola Company (Japan) Compaq Computer Corporation Consumers Packaging Inc. Coors Corning Consumer Products Company Cyrix Corporation Johnson & Johnson Medical Kimball International Klabin International producer of plastic toys Lennox Industries Lincoln Electric Lipton Lockheed Martin L ’ Oreal Lucent Technologies Mannesmann S.A. Maxtor Corporation Motorola Newport News Shipbuilding Neusiedler Paper Major sports apparel firm Nokia Novartis AG Occidental Chemical Corporation Panasonic Pechiney Rhenalu PF Labs Philip Morris Companies, Inc. Philips Semiconductor Philips Consumer Electronics Pilgrim ’ s Pride Pitney Bowes Polimeri Europa Primetech Procter Gamble Proton Raychem Corporation Dan River, Inc. Dana Delphi Deluxe Video Services (formerly Rank) Dobbs Dupont Materials & Logistics Digital Equipment Corporation Dixie Group Domtar Papers Duni Eastman Kodak Enron Ericsson EWK Metals Flender Guss Fletcher Challenge Canada Fletcher Challenge Steel Fujitsu Ltd. Microelectronics Galvak (Hylsamex S.A. de C.V.) Gambro General Electric Appliances General Motors Corporation H.J. Heinz Company of Canada Halliburton Hewlett-Packard Company Holland Hitch Home Depot Honeywell Hydro Quebec IBM IMSA (Industrias Monterrey, S.A. de C.V.) Integrated Device Technology (IDT) Largest Semiconductor Inventec Raytheon Renault Rhone Poulenc Samsung Semiconductor Samsung Electronics Sanitarium Sara Lee Casualwear Scientific Atlanta Siemens Semiconductor Siemens-Fujitsu Computers Sony Steelcase, Inc. StorageTek Tech Data Texas Instruments Semiconductor Texas Microsystems Thomson Multimedia Thompson Consumer Electronics Timken Bearings Timken Steel Trus-Joist MacMillan United Technologies UPM VF Corporation Vacuumschmelze VAW Aluminum AG Visteon Automotive Systems Leading apparel manufacturer Warner-Lambert Company Canada Whirlpool Corporation Worlds Leading Semiconductor Manufacturer