Demand forecasting for cement and building materials.
Forecast despatches by district, dealer and depot. The monsoon arrives on a different date each year, and the forecast waits for it.
The app, in your trade's words.
This demo carries 1,300 dealers and 55 months of invented history.
What the pack sets.
- Who plans
- Sales and logistics planner
- Channel
- Trade, Non-trade
- Sales tree
- Zone, State, District and Dealer or Project customer
- Supply tree
- Plant and Depot
- Catalogue
- Plant-origin items in six families, such as PPC, PPC premium, OPC 53
- Units
- MT and Bags
- Calendar
- A festival window that moves with Diwali. Monsoon onset by zone, not known ahead.
- Review steps
- Territory sales officer, then State sales head, then Logistics planner
- Output
- Daily despatch plan
What is hard here.
- The monsoon postpones building. It does not cancel it. The trough moves with the onset date.
- Trade and non-trade behave differently. Dealers buy steadily, and projects buy in lumps.
- The same grade from two plants is two items, because the freight differs.
Try this in the demo.
- Switch the unit from tonnes to bags.
- Open the Plant-origin item tab.
- Read Calendar drivers. The monsoon onset and the festival both cut despatches.