DEMAND PLANNING
Select the forecasting method that best suits your business
Flexible forecasting hierarchies
Netstock’s unique demand planning functionality, Pivot Forecasting®, allows you to forecast bottom-up, top-down, and middle-out. Forecast 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 in monthly, weekly, and even daily buckets, creating symmetry between forecasting and planning executives in your business.
Collaborative forecasting made easy
Promote accountability and visibility. Collaborate across departments and adjust forecasts to drive continuous improvement. Create individual forecasts and integrate them into a single forecast.
Enhance financial alignment
Work in any unit of measure and align your financial forecasts and budgets with your operational forecasts. Dynamically jump between units and currencies, and change future prices and costs for different channels to predict outcomes.
Continuous forecast improvement
Track the performance of your forecasts against the actuals to evaluate the effectiveness over time. Adjust and optimize your forecasting capabilities and processes as needed to enhance performance.
Fast time to benefit
Initiative dashboards that are pre-configured and easy to use. World-class machine learning capabilities, which means no complicated calculations and out-of-the-box use.
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Enhance inventory visibility
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.
Improve forecasting and Demand Planning
Enhanced with machine learning, generate improved forecasts that factor in trends, seasonality, promotions, and supply chain disruptions.
Accelerate inventory orders
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.
Optimize manufacturing
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.
Measure supplier performance
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.
Develop scenario models
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.
Forecast demand predictably
Generate flexible predictions based on individual products, product groups, sales channels, and key customers, allowing for top-down, bottom-up, and middle-out forecasting methods.
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