SmartForecasts

Use an integrated and collaborative process with finance, marketing, and sales to support company growth. Optimize your product launches and promotional campaigns and measure their ROI. Define distribution network strategies and inventory management policies that efficiently manage the delivery of products throughout your distribution network. Develop production plans that meet cost and service targets whilst conforming to capacity constraints. FuturMaster Sales & Operations Planning consolidates data relating to demand forecasting, business planning, production and supply in a single tool to anticipate and report on risks (reduced operations, risk of breakage or over-stocking, site capacity limitations) and to ensure aligned and collaborative decision making. The supply chain solution provider that helps a number of major food, retail and manufacturing companies with demand forecasting and streamlining production and supply.

Smart Demand Planner™ is a consensus demand planning and statistical forecasting solution available on Smart’s Inventory Planning and Optimization Platform, Smart IP&O. Smart Demand Planner, powered by the SmartForecasts® Engine, aligns strategic business forecasting at any level of your product hierarchy with granular forecasts of the item mix to improve forecast accuracy. It provides a statistically sound, objective foundation for your sales and operations planning process (S&OP). Smart Demand Planner’s collaborative workbench enables forecast overrides to be applied, imported, reviewed, and approved by authorized users driving the consensus plan. Forecast accuracy is measured, helping ensure that the best possible forecast is delivered to the business at both the aggregate and item mix levels. The result is more efficient sales planning, budgeting, production scheduling, ordering, and inventory planning.