FORECASTING & DEMAND PLANNING
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Quick guide – Improve forecasting in your supply chain
This quick guide will introduce you to inventory forecasting. Learn three key steps that will help you more accurately predict future sales and avoid incurring excess stock and stock-outs.
What you get with Netstock’s Forecasting and Demand Planning
Predictability
Eliminate guesswork with accurate forecasts that anticipate dynamic market demand & supply risk
Simplicity
Easily run forecasting models for best and worst-case scenarios
Speed
Integrate order data with ERP systems for smarter, real-time demand, inventory, and production visibility
Build better
forecasts — faster
Netstock automatically assigns the best demand forecasting models for each item, customer, region, unit, price, cost, or margin. Smart analytics engines “learn” over time to improve forecast accuracy. Quickly review or adjust forecasts for individual SKUs, any level of product, or channel aggregation. Factor in lost sales, promotions, and other non-recurring events to produce better sales, inventory, procurement, and manufacturing plans.
Integrate and accelerate planning
Get a deeper level of forecasting granularity with exclusive Pivot Forecasting®. Forecast at any level, including by sub-SKU attributes, channel, customer, or region, and work in any unit of measure. Plan on multiple dimensions to generate product and channel-specific forecasts weekly or daily creating symmetry between forecasting and planning executives in your business.
Drive smarter decisions across your business
Netstock automatically generates inventory plans and product orders, and directly ports order information to your ERP. Make multi-item manual adjustments to forecasts and corresponding plans and synchronize sales forecasts with inventory, procurement, operations, and finance teams.
Out-plan uncertainty and drive continual improvement
See the direct impact of forecasting inputs, by running “what-if” scenarios and create strategic plans for best- and worst-case scenarios to maintain optimal fill rates in the face of dynamic demand and supply lead time.
See everything Netstock can do for you
Inventory optimization
See all your inventory KPIs in a single dashboard and get prescriptive and prioritized recommendations on SKUs important to your growth. Model the impact of various inventory policy decisions and measure the outcome of each scenario.
Forecasting and Demand Planning
Enhanced with machine learning, generate improved forecasts that factor in trends, seasonality, promotions, and supply chain disruptions.
Replenishment and Distribution Planning
Generate recommended orders to restock products across your network and create a balanced inventory holding. Create risk-optimized orders for each SKU and automatically send them to your ERP system with a single click.
Sales and Operations Planning
Break down silos and create a central source of truth to drive confident, synchronized decision-making. Align operations and supply chain plans with sales, marketing, and financial strategies.
Performance Analysis
Monitor and measure product-specific lead times and overdue orders. Leverage supplier performance metrics to negotiate terms that reduce lead times and mitigate supply risk.
Manufacturing and Capacity Planning
Optimize production plans and view real time visibility. Work with multi-level bills of material, resources, and kits. Create multiple demand-supply scenarios to easily distribute important data to stakeholders.
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