Cadent Resouces, Inc. is the primary process improvement resource for the Alliance for Illinois Manufacturing. The Alliance for Illinois Manufacturing helps Northeast Illinois manufacturers compete through:

• Assessment of Business Needs & Opportunities
• Business Analysis, Benchmarking and Strategic Planning
• Implementation of focused, integrated solutions that match goals for business growth with non-profit and taxpayer supported grants, loans, incentives and business services.

This relationship allows our clients to potentially subsidize some of our process improvement projects with the resources available via the Alliance. Though not all of our projects are eligible, the Alliance has numerous other valuable resources available to Illinois manufacturers and distributors.

Founded in 1986, Business Forecast Systems, Inc. (BFS), is the maker of Forecast  Pro, the leading software solution for business forecasting, and is a premier provider of forecasting education. With more than 25,000 users worldwide, Forecast Pro helps thousands of companies improve planning, cut inventory costs and decrease stockouts by improving the accuracy of their forecasts. 

When building DemandCaster we chose the Forecast Pro DLL as the forecasting engine for the system.   The Forecast Pro automatic expert selection outperformed other software approaches as well as 18 out of 19 academic teams in the Makridakis-3 study, the largest forecasting study ever performed.