An accurate forecast is an essential point for Supply Chain optimization. As a true collaborative sales forecast solution, n.SKEP® Demand Planning enables creation of more reliable logistic, sales and budgetary forecasts, completed with firm demand including exceptional and promotional sales events. Better forecasting ultimately leads to an improvement of sales.

Forecasting

n.SKEP® Demand Planning is an integrated solution for collaborative sales forecasts, which includes all the players involved in the sales process (General Management, Sales and Marketing, sales force, etc.) to obtain optimal reliability to anticipate demand forecasts at best.

Sales forecasts and the marketing plan are created based on historical data and on all exceptional events using the powerful and proven ‘state of the art’ statistical functions (Forecast Pro™) generating the best forecasts for each individual item. The automation and assistance possibilities provided by the system include automatic selection of the right statistical model, smoothing of historical data and determining the effect of exceptional events, special offer catalogue, automatic analysis of the seasonality and correlations among many others.

The simulation capability offered by n.SKEP® Demand Planning facilitates the evaluation of events like the launching of a new special offer, the launching of a new item or the arrival of a new customer.

n.SKEP® Demand Planning offers standard analyses like measurement of sales forecasts reliability compared to real sales, or different statistical indicators (average, trend, variability, etc.).

To develop efficient sales forecasts, n.SKEP® Demand Planning includes many decision-support functions to measure the sales value of each item or customer (ABC analysis) to apply an appropriate demand calculation method: monthly, weekly or daily sales forecasts, orders, threshold replenishment.

The powerful data model of the n.SKEP® Demand Planning solution allows sales representation on multiple item and customer axes, detailed or aggregated, finished product per customer, per market or sales family, etc. Each player within the collaborative process of demand forecasting recognizes and captures his information in the right unit and at the right level of detail.

The forecaster understands past and future sales profiles while measuring the impact of marketing and logistics events on each item or item family.

With n.SKEP® Demand Planning the different players involved in the sales process can have access to all decision elements in order to commit to a demand forecast plan.

• Control your Supply Chain:
  sales forecasts integrated into the management of whole Supply Chain
   
• Improve your customer service:
  by preventing out-of-stock, eliminating delays, better anticipation of the customer’s requirement
   
• Reduce costs:
  improved forecast reliability, inventory reduction
   
• Increase your sales:
  shortened delivery times, out-of-stock elimination, better product availability, etc.
   

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