Zemeter Demand Planner users can easily analyze & understand the company’s sales patterns through a comprehensive analysis of relevant data. Users can quickly & efficiently compare the forecast with actual sales. They also can share demand plans with multiple stakeholders throughout the organization & encourage a much higher degree of collaborative planning. It generates alerts & warnings throughout the month when orders or shipments vary significantly from the forecast & when business-defined triggers are exceeded. Early warnings allow planners to react to changes in time to supplement supply or avoid overbuilding inventory within the month.

Key Demand Planner Capabilities

Automatically generates a baseline forecast with a level of detail and aggregation meaningful to each individual user.

Collects corrective inputs from team members in ways most convenient for them: web, excel, or offline desktop application.

Manages a variety of variables such as the effect of price changes, promotions, and new product introductions.

Updates actual metrics and continually highlights potential disruptions in orders, shipments, and inventories.

Data from the Demand Planner is seamlessly passed to and integrated with the Zemeter Supply Planner and Inventory Planner.

Demand Planner User Benefits

Increased sales because the entire supply chain commits to a single plan.

Reduced inventories of up to 15% across the supply chain, while simultaneously reducing late shipments by as much as 20%.

Cross-functional buy-in that supports process improvement.

Provides the flexibility to easily act on and adapt to new business opportunities.

One Version of the Truth

Getting to a single set of numbers is a big task. It requires not only technology to support statistical forecasting, but also a tool that minimizes the effort necessary to regularly contribute to a demand plan.

Zemeter does the up-front work by providing a baseline forecast in views that are meaningful to the various users. Sales may want to monitor and provide input only on top customers, whereas the organization’s demand planner will use Zemeter to identify the most significant sources of variability and focus on correcting these problems. Zemeter provides both a statistical starting point and functionality that helps draw the team’s attention to areas costing the company money – due to lost sales and unprofitable decisions.

The Zemeter Demand Planner makes reporting, analyzing, and contributing to a final demand plan an extension of current business decision making. Price changes, marketing promotions, new product introductions and the opportunity to accept a significant new client order can represent either threats or opportunities. Zemeter examines them quickly, calculating the overall financial impact of alternative responses.

Collaboration makes it possible for any employee with knowledge to contribute, from a sales representative to a marketing executive. Because access to data is controlled at the user level, every input and forecast is saved for later comparison against what actually occurred.

Features that optimize the Supply Chain

Advanced Methods

Business Intelligence

Adaptive Collaboration