Demand Planning

DELMIA Demand Planning analyzes historical demand and market intelligence to help accurately forecast and determine how to profit from it. Through improved statistical forecasting, users can collaborate more effectively with internal sales teams and external customers and explore demand scenarios to increase sales and organizational efficiency. In addition, demand-sensing provides the ability to revise forecasts immediately whenever market conditions change or new intelligence becomes available. DELMIA Demand Planning statistical forecasting automatically calculates the optimal forecast by analyzing events, trends, and seasonal changes. This process leads to improved collaboration by creating a demand forecast with input across the enterprise - sales, finance, marketing, and other key areas - for simultaneous access to the most up-to-date plan. Additionally, its real-time analytics and time disaggregation capabilities provide an understanding of the forecasting challenges and track how forecasts change over time, enabling forecast accuracy.

Key Benefits:

• Increases planner efficiency

• Reduces obsolete inventory 

• Improves customer satisfaction and on-time order fulfillment

• Lowers inventory costs

• Decreases expedited shipping costs

• Increases revenue and profit margins