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Plan - Perform - Respond with DemandCaster

Plan… Turbo charge the data in your ERP and move beyond spreadsheets to develop robust Demand Planning, Supply Planning, and Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) capabilities, in house. With DemandCaster’s intuitive layout and design, you can turn your internal data into optimized demand and supply plans that can be tied back to your S&OP meetings to answer the increasingly complex questions you face every day.

• Combine forecasting capabilities with automated Kanban sizing, MRP modeling, and analytics to easily identify and optimize non-optimal ERP operating parameters.
• Generate optimal safety stock and reorder point calculations using Forecast Pro technology.
• Set demand-plan policies based importance, order frequency, and forecastability using three-dimensional product segmentation.
• Dynamically manage multi-level stocking and common part analysis across locations.
• Optimize readiness with supply-chain extensibility and integration, integrated project and task management, custom report creation.
• Remove silos internally and collaborate to address operational issues. Actively communicate with customers and suppliers. Where possible integrate data externally –interconnect demand to supply.

Perform… Enhance your competitiveness with a full understanding of what drives value in your business. DemandCaster® helps you perform optimally, every day. 

• Work from one, coordinated plan using multiple dashboards, modeling, and reporting capabilities that facilitate Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP).
• Develop optimized forecasting models based on operational priorities.
• Easily connect to ERP systems and other data sources to support end-to-end supply chain planning.
• With embedded analytics and reporting functions, gather in-depth and timely insights into all aspects of your business to help you respond to customer needs.
• Initiate periodic planning and review process following Plan-Do-Check-Act logic or as part of your Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes.

Respond. . . Whether you want to improve services delivery to gain a competitive advantage, respond to a new sales opportunity, improve financial performance, or just deal with changes in demand patterns due to supply-chain disruptions, DemandCaster® can help you respond more effectively.

• Dynamically adjust operating parameters to deploy resources optimally—testing new policies against actual performance to assure demand and supply are conforming to plan.
• Proactively and optimally manage process bottlenecks, and align lead times with changing circumstances.
• Measure impact of planned shop orders on capacity to identify future bottlenecks and constraints with integrate capacity analysis.
• Keep company-wide systems current and accurate by feeding forecast and other necessary information into corporate ERP systems, end-to-end supply chain extensibility and integration, and XML data sharing.