Looking for a LLamasoft Alternative?

If you're evaluating alternatives to LLamasoft or Coupa Supply Chain Design, you're not alone. The landscape has shifted since the 2020 acquisition, and a lot of supply chain planning teams are asking whether the tool still fits their situation.

Here's an honest comparison — what changed, where each option makes sense, and what Factible Tools offers if you decide to make a switch.

What Changed with LLamasoft

LLamasoft was a well-regarded supply chain network design tool — purpose-built for modeling network configurations, running scenarios, and optimizing decisions across your distribution footprint. For years it was one of the more capable options in the mid-to-large enterprise space.

In 2020, Coupa acquired LLamasoft and folded it into its broader procure-to-pay platform. Then in 2023, Thoma Bravo took Coupa private. The supply chain design module is still there, but it now lives inside a large enterprise procurement suite — with the pricing, implementation complexity, and support structure that implies.

For companies that were already deep in the Coupa ecosystem, that integration made sense. For supply chain planning teams who just needed network design and planning — the fit got harder to justify.

Head-to-Head Comparison

Who Should Stay with Coupa Supply Chain Design

To be straightforward about it: if you're a Fortune 500 company running a global procurement transformation, already committed to the Coupa platform, and have a dedicated supply chain modeling team with internal capacity to manage a complex implementation — staying makes sense. You've already absorbed the cost of entry, and the breadth of the platform has real value at that scale.

We're not trying to be the right fit for everyone. If Coupa is working for you, it's probably working for a reason.

Who Should Consider Factible Tools

Factible Tools is built for supply chain planning teams that need real answers fast — whether at a growing manufacturer or inside a large enterprise that needs a focused, deployable tool without the full-suite overhead. If any of the following describes your situation, it's worth a conversation:

• You need network design or tactical planning capabilities but not a full enterprise procurement suite.
• You can't wait six months for implementation — you need to model scenarios this quarter.
• You don't have a team of dedicated consultants to operate the tool day-to-day.
• Your data lives in Excel and you want that to be a feature, not a problem to solve with a complex ETL pipeline.
• You need both strategic and tactical planning in a single platform, without maintaining two separate tools.

Our customers range from fast-growing manufacturers to large multinationals with dedicated supply chain planning teams. What they have in common: they need to run real network design and planning analysis without waiting months for implementation or paying for capabilities they'll never use.

One Platform for Both Planning Horizons

Factible Tools includes two modules — Supply Chain Designer for strategic network decisions, and Tactical Planner for shorter-horizon planning like production scheduling, capacity allocation, and S&OP support. Both run on the same interface and the same underlying data model.

In practice, that means you're not rebuilding your model every time you shift planning horizons. Adjust the data granularity, change the time horizon, and you're ready to run. No separate tool licenses, no duplicate data entry, no context switching between systems.