Demand Planner: Forecast & Manage Your Demand
We provide the best in class supply chain planning solutions for enterprises. Our solutions are designed to streamline your company’s supply chain, giving it an edge over your competitors. We offer customised solutions, tailored to meet your needs and help you achieve your business goals.
Sense
• Track sales signals near real-time & marketing
inputs periodically
• Analyse, interpret & provide actionable
insights; prepare data for forecasting
Integrate
• Push consensus demand plan into key S&OP processes & planning systems – inventory, supply / replenishment planning)
Forecast
• Create multi dimensional segmented forecasts
based on customized statistical techniques
• Incorporate business relevant causals
(promotions, events, etc.) into forecasts
Collaborate
• Review previous period forecast
accuracy in S&OP demand review
• Get inputs from sales, supply chain &
finance to drive consensus demand plan
Improve your Forecast Accuracy
A comprehensive range of supply chain services
Complete Demand Planning Architecture
- Comprehensive “data models” to represent historical sales, statistical forecasts & stakeholder inputs
- Dimensions (product, geography, channel, etc.)
- Hierarchies (SKU – product family, territory – region, etc.)
- Measures (units, financials, percentages, etc.)
- Causals (promotions, events, etc.)
- Align data capture, analytics, aggregation / disaggregation logics & forecasts with relevant “demand data models”
Platform for Demand Planning Process
- Framework for process governance for structured stakeholder inputs, change management & operating rigor
- Gateway for easy data ingestion, quality checks (missing data, errors, etc.), identify outliers & drive resolution
- Enables authorized views, controlled inputs & annotations for specific business and product segments
- Allows users to filter, drill down, search audit history & logs to analyse & understand various “forecast segments”
- Helps assess “forecast quality” across segments & planning horizons; highlight key drivers & provide learnings
The Demand Planning Engine
- Leverage inbuilt statistical forecasting algorithms
- Hook onto industry standard algorithms (R packages, Prophet, Python libraries, etc.)
- Customize algorithms built for specific demand patterns
- Perform what-if analyses based on business specific aggregation & disaggregation logic
Robust & Scalable Solution
- Effective representation of business structure (product lines, business units, planning horizons, functions, etc.)
- Scalable solution supporting multi-user, departments, geographies, combinations, etc.
- Provide backbone for a comprehensive demand planning part of S&OP process
- Performance … comprehensive statistical techniques, data analytics, workflows, etc.
Agility in Demand Planning leads to agility in Supply Chains
Designing the future of your supply chain
Spashta Demand Planner
- Simultaneous planning of materials & capacities
- Algorithms … display & understand solution output and
- Interactive management of data inputs, business rules, constraints and output
- Scenario planning … get up & running quickly … use “ondemand” based on business needs
- Execution systems … easily customizable for multiple manufacturing environments with unique requirements