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Maestro

4.5

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Pricing

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About Maestro

Delivered as a set of configurable applications, Kinaxis RapidResponse is a supply chain management solution that helps large enterprises and logistics service providers with planning and execution. Kinaxis offers organizations the supply chain planning, execution, and analytics capabilities they need to manage multiple interconnected supply chain planning and execution processes.

Kinaxis connects data, processes, and people in a single environment to assist with operational and financial performance. Kinaxis is used by shippers and logistics service providers (LSPs), as well as organizations across a range of industries, including aerospace and defense, automotive, industrial, high-tech (consumer electronics and semiconductors), life sciences and consumer products.

Applications include multi-enterprise visibility, order management, transportation management, returns and spare parts management, demand planning, supply planning, inventory management, order fulfillment, capacity planning, master scheduling, S&OP, supplier collaboration, material requirements planning and more. Organizations typically enter into customized subscription agreements with Kinaxis based on the number o...

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Maestro Pricing and Plans

Starting price: CA$30,000.00

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Maestro Features

Popular features found in Demand Planning
Data Visualization
Demand Forecasting
Historical Reporting
Supply Chain Management
More features of Maestro
API
Capacity Planning
EDI
Forecasting
Inventory Auditing
Inventory Management
Inventory Optimization
Kitting
Manufacturing Inventory Management
Multi-Channel Management
Order Fulfillment
Order Management
Reporting/Analytics
Routing
Sales & Operations Planning
Scheduling
Supplier Management
Transportation Management

Maestro User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

58%

38%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.5

Value for money

4.6

Customer support

4.2

Functionality

4.7

SEBASTIAN Z.

Verified reviewer

Medical Devices

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2018

Rapid Response Review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

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Pros:

It maked it easyer to forecast and aim inventory projections.

Cons:

Its not as rapid as it claims. Its pretty heavy and it takes too long to update.

Arun D.

Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2017

Its a user friendly Supply Chain tool which makes planners life easy

I worked as a material planner for the first 5 years of my career and the last 4 years I am working as a Rapid Response Author and Administrator. During the first 3 years, i struggled to do the material planning as we are doing all the planning related things manually using the excel sheets. Then we adopted Rapid Response and it helped me greatly in preparing the shortage reports and plan the Production lines. Earlier I used to take 2 days to prepare some complex reports and with the help of rapid response, I was able to do that within 1 or 2 hours. Also, it helped me to plan the inventories and mange the excess. I helped me do the what if impact analysis Whenever there is a fluctuation in demand(Increase or Decrease). Also normally we used to do the planning for 13 weeks,With the help of rapid Response we were able to do the planning for the next 1 year. It improved the long term visibility. I have used several planing tools and there is no best tool than this for a material planner. As a developer also now I can easily implement the supply chain solutions to my customers. Keep updating the tool and add new functionalities in the upcoming days. Happy to be a kinaxis user as well as a developer.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

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Pros:

It is a very user Friendly Easy to navigate since it looks exactly like working in excel sheet Long term Visibility of demand and supply. We can easily do the What if analysis in case of increase or decrease in demand and plan the materials based on that. Very Helpful in Excess and inventory management. From the Software perspective The coding is less complicated and easy to understand. We can easily implement modern supply chain functionalities. Scorecards and dashboards are an added advantage which helps the management in decision making.

Cons:

Sometimes I feel like I don't have all the training materials to keep me up to date with all the functionalities that kinaxis offers to the customers Due to this most of the time we say no to the customers although there is a way to implement the requested functionality in Rapid Response. Please make the training materials more accessible so that the developers can implement the requested solutions. Also, we feel the training cost is a little high for small companies to afford. From the software perspective Sometimes when we use the heavy tables in the workbooks it will take more time to load.It will be good if the tool performs a little faster. Also please make sure to keep adding updates to the mobile application and also take steps to create awareness to promote the mobile application.

Adnan B.

Verified reviewer

Wholesale

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Mixture of a spreadsheet software and a reporting tool!!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

If your business focuses on a lot of different reports then this is the software to purchase. It has several spreadsheet based dashboards which can segregate your inventory and supply chain management. It can help you plan your future buying according to the forecast rules you set.

Cons:

Although it looks like an Excel spreadsheet, however, it will not give you the functionalities that Excel can so do not use Excel commands on it as most of them might not work. It is not easy to find the correct training material for the task on hand. Not easily integrated with other interfaces. A lot of manual work is required compared to other software for the same purpose in the market.

Sudharsan R.

Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2017

Kinaxis RapidResponse is so fast

The Kinaxis Rapid Response is a very helpful and effective tool. It enables the user to monitor the performance of his business and keep him updated in every transaction. It works effectively even on complicated business environment. It is worth to keep.

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Value for money

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Pros:

Single Solution - RapidResponse is a single product that supports a complete end to end process and is fully integrated. There is no need for batch schedules to run to sync data between the capabilities of the solution. The S&OP, demand planning, supply planning, capacity planning, inventory optimization, collaboration, allocations, and what-if scenario planning are all within a single data model with a single user interface. Rapid Scenarios - Within RapidResponse, any user can run a scenario in seconds. RapidResponse has a unique capability where the demand and supply balancing engine is always on and it runs in memory. This empowers users to be able to take a virtual copy of the entire database in a second, change any type of demand, supply, lead time, on hand, costs, etc. and run a the new plan within seconds. Embedded Analytics - RapidResponse natively has dashboards that are drillable and are based in memory on the live database - there is no need to push data out to a data warehouse for analytics. Flexible Exceptions - RapidResponse allows you to build your own exceptions and alerts to help with planner productivity. You aren't limited to the native exceptions within the planning tool - any sort of exception that you can define a rule can be easily deployed and users can be alerted via dashboards and alerts to their emails when the exceptions occur. Integrated Financials & KPI Scorecards - Many planning tools can help planners answer the question whether they can support a plan, however, RapidResponse helps planners take that a step further and answer the question of which strategy should you plan to based on your KPIs important to your business. These KPIs can be financial based such as revenue, margin and costs or they could be numerical based such as fill rates, on time delivery to request percentage, or key constraint utilization.

Gandhi Nathan B.

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2017

Rapid Response - A Cloud based Beast App

One of the best ever app in the market...keep rocking guys..

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Pros:

Rapid Response provides users the ability to simulate different business scenarios, test a thought out solution, collaborate and perform necessary data changes to the system in real time. Also to anticipate market demand, positioning enterprise resources to meet demand and fulfilling demand as it is realized. As it is cloud based, we can access it anywhere, anytime. No need to install the app in a different machine for the first time use. Only Java is enough. So its really a big advantage to all.The updated Version 2016.2 makes everything simpler in compared to its old versions. Things like scheduled tasks running for a long time and scenario changes and commit, etc...takes very less to time to complete in the newer version.

Cons:

1. Sometimes RR App becomes inaccessible and keeps throwing some warning msgs, when network issues like WiFi or LAN got disconnected and reconnect again. So, in this case, we are not able to continue our work and supposed to close the app forcefully and re login is required to open the app. 2. It is good if we have a chat window inside the app, with currently signed in users. 3. If possible can we have some new background theme or customized one.

Prasath K.

Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2017

kinaxis - Fast and accurate Analytical Planning

when we are using the legacy planning system, the Workflow will take nearly 9-11 hours to complete. so the user need to wait till that time to view the data. but after migrated to kinaxis it took just 1 hour to complete our workflow. Most of the calculation are performed by kinaxis using analytical engine. and the what if Analysis allows the planner to compare multiple scenarios against one scenario

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Scenario Planning Best S&OP planning tool Supporting what if Analysis Easy to integrating various Source of information Cloud based Application Strong analytical Engine Accurate calculation Provide Constraint based planning Easy to develop new process Provide ability to create Score card , Charts Support most of Statistical forecast algorithm In Memory database Supports version Control Kinaxis Support team provides high quality product supports

Cons:

we can not access/modify all the resource using Script. so some features can not be automated fully. to view any records in table, we need to create worksheet. so for debugging purpose it take more time. If they provide a way to retrieve records by using a query method , then it will be easy to debug the issue. Atleast they can provide this functionality to admin.

Siva Sankar R.

Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2017

For Planing it is very good tool

it is a very good tool for future generation.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

1.Inside the SAME tool, we have Demand Management,Master Planning and Order Promising functionality. 2.NO intermediate databases nor data transfers. 3.The "MRP Run" takes a few seconds (trademark of RR, runs in-memory) 4.Capability to simulate several MRP systems (SAP, Baan,…) 5.Capable of doing multiple simulations and seeing immediately the results (and capable of indicating the changes) 6.scenario simulation capabilities

Cons:

1.Some times in the workbook if we have more data it is throwing unexcepted error. 2.For calculation fields, we don't know how RR is calculating and giving the results. 3. some times if the script runs it is not providing profer logs.

karthick M.

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2017

Impressive Experience of Kinaxis

If possible simplifying author guide of Kinaxis would be good for more Application Users.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Constraint planning defined in very good way. Inventory control usage is high and it works properly where it is taking 30% reduction of excess. The flow of demand supply and balancing is quite good. The advantages like, User friendly, Good in speed. Hopefully, it will be one of the best planning simulation tool in upcoming years for all manufacturing industry that matters.

Cons:

Nothing much on software related. where some of the scripts are not working in only some cases. Apart from that everything is fine.

aruna r.

Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2017

Kinaxis - KNOW SOONER ACT FASTER

Kinaxis RapidResponse is at the Heart of Supply Chain Management!!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Kinaxis transforms the way companies run their supply chains and their businesses. Ease to use as it is kind of microsoft excel ,provides constraint based planning analytical .enables customers to drive tangible business outcomes by both improving and accelerating analysis and decision making within and across supply chain functions and even across organizations.THE BEST S&OP tool. provide a 24/7 support

Cons:

it is difficult to design. if we want to modify or add any new table or field in rapid response data model it need server to be restarted so we need to wait till the restart completes .Training and knowledge is costly comparatively .

Niranchan N.

Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing

10000+ employees

Used other for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2017

Kinaxis Upgradation

Im being a beginner to RR, we would like to explore and get knwoledege in it. Wondering how to start and where to start from. It would be great if we get some online free training.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Initially we were using the old version of Kinaxis 2014.6. In which our workflow took almost 6 to 8 hours to gets completed. To say DCA9 chain takes 1 hour and DCA Chain takes appromiately 3 to 4 hours. Due to this, we users were able to get their data only after 4 to 5 hours after the completion of DCA. But after the Upgradation to 2016.2 DCA9 gets completed in 20 mins and DCA gets completed in 2 Hours hardly. Due to which our workflow gets completed very soon. We are able to start our Process and the Inbounds too early and we are able to give the outputs to the downstream very earlier than before. This makes the users more comfortable and satisfying. In the next upgrade we can expect much more than this.

Cons:

Im a beginner to RR. I have just 10 months on hand experience in RR. I need to explore and get the atmost usability of RR. In such a case Training courses and online video coaching seems to be too high in cost for us to be get used of it. It would be highly helpful and encourageble if it reaches even to the Beginner level to afford for it.

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