Product: Demand PlanningGP

• Statistical Forecasts
• Lead-time Forecast Error
• Lost Sales & Demand Filtering
• History & Forecast Management

Advanced Features

• ​Attribute Forecasting
• Seasonal & Lifecycle Profiling
• Supersession Management
• Demand Sensing

Advantages

• Fit the forecast level to your product, product/customer product/region/customer, etc.
• Utilize our lower level component forecast bypassing the need to purchase a full Materials Resource Planning (MRP) module
• Improve your forecast accuracy by linking similar item sales history as revisions are made to the product
• Manually create forecasts with your unique insight or let PlanningEdge automatically do the work for you
• Provides a forecast change audit report so you know who changed the forecast, when, and by how much
• Forecast and track multiple size/color combinations with our matrix forecasting functionality
• Provides an unlimited number of demand aggregations for high level visibility
• See the big picture when creating your forecast: PlanningEdge supports the display and import of multiple forecast series-statistical, operational, sales, financial, Point-of-Sale (POS), etc.
• Flexible forecasting to meet your specific needs-use monthly, weekly, or dynamically switch back and forth with tools to justify the choice
• Configure the forecast level to your business-item-centric, customer-centric, or a blended hybrid model
• Take seasonality into account with auto-detection or use your unique insight to enter an index

Benefits

• Minimized inventory and quicker inventory turns with increased customer service levels
• Decreased stock-outs, overstocks and lost sales
• Increased planner productivity with exception-based reviewing and automated plans for increased forecast accuracy