Demand forecasting for food and beverage makers.
Forecast every family for every distributor, account and depot. Summer drinks and festive packs peak in different months.
The app, in your trade's words.
This demo carries 980 distributors and 55 months of invented history.
What the pack sets.
- Who plans
- Demand planner
- Channel
- General trade, Modern trade, Institutional
- Sales tree
- Zone, Region, Area and Distributor or Key account or Institution
- Supply tree
- Plant and Depot
- Catalogue
- SKUs in six families, such as Biscuits and cookies, Namkeen and snacks, Fruit drinks
- Units
- Cases and MT
- Calendar
- A festival window that moves with Diwali.
- Review steps
- Area sales manager, then Regional sales manager, then Supply planner
- Output
- Monthly sourcing plan and fortnightly production plan
What is hard here.
- Summer lifts drinks while festivals lift snacks and gifts. One company carries both curves.
- Plants plan in batches and depots sell in cases. The forecast has to serve both.
- Institutional buyers order in lumps.
Try this in the demo.
- Compare Fruit drinks with Confectionery across the year.
- Switch the unit from cases to tonnes.
- Open the Depot tab.