Demand forecasting for agri-inputs.
Forecast fertilisers, crop protection and seeds apart. Each follows the sowing calendar, and the calendar follows the rain.
The app, in your trade's words.
This demo carries 720 wholesalers and 55 months of invented history.
What the pack sets.
- Who plans
- Commercial and logistics planner
- Business
- Fertilisers, Crop protection, Seeds
- Sales tree
- Zone, State, District and Wholesaler or Distributor
- Supply tree
- Plant or port and Warehouse
- Catalogue
- Products and packs in five families, such as Urea, DAP, NPK complexes
- Units
- MT and rupees crore; KL and rupees lakh; Packets and rupees lakh
- Calendar
- Sowing onset by zone, not known ahead.
- Review steps
- District sales officer, then State marketing manager, then Commercial planner
- Output
- Monthly supply plan and liquidation tracker
What is hard here.
- Sales follow sowing, and sowing follows the monsoon. A late onset moves the whole season.
- Placement into the channel is not sale to the farmer.
- Seed sells in a few weeks of the year.
Try this in the demo.
- Switch the business to Seeds and look at May and June.
- Read Calendar drivers for the sowing onset.
- Open a state and read its districts.