Demand planning

Do you need en effective demand planning software for your business

Demand planning

Business need

Spreadsheets are great tool for planning when your manufacturing or distribution company is small and manages only a few parts. As your company grows, those planning spreadsheets can quickly become a burden and increasingly difficult and time consuming to accurately forecast sales and plan inventory.

Organizations today are turning to best-in-class demand planning software that can help them overcome the challenges of accurate sales forecasting and planning for meeting customer demand on time. Rising complexities of businesses, multiple-channels, various SKUs and focus on the bottom-line make this task increasingly complex and companies looking for the right demand planning software will come out on top.

Solution overview

FForce replaces your planning spreadsheets with a full-featured and affordable cloud-based demand planning software that seamlessly integrates with your ERP system. The result – improved forecast accuracies, lower inventories, satisfied customers, and a happier you!

The objective of demand planning software is to accurately forecast future demand and enable proper inventory planning for improved revenues, service levels, decreased inventory and stock-outs. Our demand planning software enables you to make profitable decisions about purchasing cycles and quantity levels, from product roll-out to product retirement with its ad-on solution purchase management. FForce reduces juggle of the purchase manager and streamline the purchasing workflow. The ad-on solution helps purchase manager by automating the processes of identifying potential suppliers, suppliers evaluation, suppliers quote evaluation, forwarding purchase orders to the suppliers, and billing processes.

You’ll have the ability to boost customer service, ensure successful promotional support, and stay on top of market changes. Collect internal and external demand streams, analyze their input, and use the resulting insight to create rational demand plans and update them as needed. Integrate internal and external demand data across sales and supply functions as a foundation for trade promotion activities and other means of demand shaping.

Benefits

  • Increase demand visibility across the entire trading network
  • Create one synchronized view of consumer demand
  • Improve forecasting performance and accuracy
  • Optimize inventory levels and increase inventory turns
  • Give companies centralized and real-time control of all purchase activity
  • Increase awareness of purchasing policy through the organization and ensures its compliance
  • Delegate the administration/responsibility to those making the purchase while retaining control by management
  • Eliminate wasteful purchasing
  • No software to install or maintain