Demand Planning

You need to forecast and sense demand with greater accuracy to:

  • Drive downstream planning accuracy
  • Increase sales revenue
  • Minimize freight expediting costs
  • Improve customer service and reduce inventory costs

Key Challenges

  • Insufficient forecast accuracy - Customer behavior is often erratic and without reliable demand data from within and outside your organization, it is difficult to generate an accurate forecast resulting in decreased profitability

  • Seasonality and demand spikes - Overlooking seasonal inventory requirements or new trends results in stock outs and a fall off in sales for your enterprise

  • Increasing customer expectations - Your customers now expect and even demand stock availability and on-time deliveries to ensure a positive customer experience

Capabilities

  • Statistical forecasting
  • QAD’s solution addresses complex seasonality, external factors and trend analysis with an auto-selection of best-fit algorithm and an expert library of forecasting methods for every possible sales profile.
  • Demand sensing
  • You can utilize real-time customer demand signals to drive a short horizon demand management approach.

  • Dimension flexibility
  • It does not matter how different stakeholders need to work with the forecast, you can manage the forecast in days, weeks, or months; by SKU, category, brand, customer, warehouse, region; in units, pallets, kilograms; or by other dimensions.
  • Management by exception
  • Your organization can manage large product portfolios and ensure your planner’s efforts are focused on those events where the most value can be achieved.

ARaymond Redefines Business Processes for Its Supply Chain

The leader in the automotive market achieved greater reliability in forecasts, cost savings and improved collaboration with QAD Demand Planning, Distribution Planning and Production Planning.

ARMOR Benefits from Wider and Clearer Vision of Customer Demand

With Demand Planning, the inks and printing technologies specialist absorbs a 400% growth in product range with no additional headcount.

Further Information

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Demand Planning Key Features

Another reason for our choice were the ergonomic aspects of the Demand Planning tool, its powerful modeling as well as its collaborative capacities for validating forecasts between forecasters and subsidiaries.

Sales Forecast and Planning Manager – Dorel Group

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