Regardless of your manufacturing model, you need to know -- accurately and quickly -- what your customers want. Forecast too low and you'll have shortages and lost sales. But predict a high demand that doesn't materialize and you're stuck with excess inventory, idle lines, and damaging write-offs. Forecast accuracy is determined by input from internal and external stakeholders, along with historical demand-trend data. Using a built in library of statistical forecasting algorithms, Adexa Collaborative Demand Planning gives you timely, accurate, and aggregated demand data from sales, marketing, and customers to create a rich and comprehensive view of all demand factors and forecasts. This collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR) solution brings speed, accuracy, and simplicity to demand planning; enabling you to increase revenue, organizational agility, and customer service. - Improve forecast reliability -- even for new products
- Maintain the right inventory levels for demand peaks and valleys
- Accurately forecast revenue and corresponding resource requirements
- Simplify promotion planning and cost/benefit analysis
- Analyze profitability by channel, product, and geography
- Maximize spare parts usage and maintenance inventories
Demand Xpress: For small to medium size businesses
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Demand Planning is now as easy as 1-2-3 in 4 weeks Just because you are a small to medium size company, it does not mean your forecasting and demand management requirements are any less complicated or critical to your business. Regardless of your size or your business model, you still need to know—accurately and quickly—what your customers want. Forecast too low and you’ll have shortages and lost sales, and it’s equally as damaging if you forecast too high and orders do not materialize. What your organization needs is a solution that ties in timely, accurate, and aggregated demand data from sales, marketing, finance, and customers to create a rich and collaborative view of all demand factors and forecasts. Demand Xpress is a brand new and innovative product from Adexa, which provides small to medium size companies with a comprehensive demand planning solution. Demand Xpress offers a full range of demand planning capabilities that can be deployed in a fraction of both the time and cost of alternative solutions that provide comparable functionality. This is facilitated through the use of state-of-art technology and its' advanced modular design (Figure 1). Once the base platform has been implemented, users can activate additional value-added modules based on their business needs. Ultimately, this will provide a fully customizable and effective demand-planning solution in less time, with less cost, and with fewer resources. You can achieve the following benefits in less than 30 days: - Greatly improve reliability in product forecasts and demand plans
- Allow full collaboration between all departments involved in demand planning
- Maintain the right inventory levels by product, customer, and location
- Accurately forecast revenue and perform cost/benefit analysis
- Strengthen new/untested marketing campaigns
- Analyze profitability by channel, product, and geography
- Minimize time-to-benefit by utilizing pre-packaged business templates
Figure 1. Demand Xpress’ modular design
With pre-packaged business templates, modular software, and a streamlined implementation Demand Xpress targets the core demand planning activities that provide 90% of the value.
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