WorldCLASS:: Demand Forecaster

"Effective Supply Chain Management"

  • Our business is, to a great extent, driven by forecasts, but we have a real struggle with forecasting accuracies.


  • We operate on a very short lead time, demand is very erratic, making it difficult to manage stock and to produce the right product items at the right time.


  • Do you want to cut your inventory levels without compromising service?


  • Do you want your production plans to incorporate forecast data fed back from sales & customers… in units and in revenues… down to the SKU level?


    • Is this you? As customer demands get more stringent, issues like these are becoming increasingly urgent to address.

    WorldCLASS::APS believe Forecasting is a cornerstone of effective supply chain management in replenish to stock (rather than make to order) manufacturing businesses.

    The WorldCLASS::Demand Forecaster provides a solution to help companies deal with complex demand management issues, to ensure the most effective forecasts are available, providing the means to less stockholding, increased stock turn, reduced cycle times, and improved customer service.

    "The WorldCLASS::Demand Forecaster"

    # Easy to use functionality
    # Self adjusting statistical models
    # Low user intervention
    # Exception reporting
    # Top down and/or bottom up forecasting
    # Different Units Of Measure
    # Management Intelligence






    Microsoft Visual Studio.NET Forecasting Product Functionality:

    · Best-fit statistical methods of generation

    · Control of trend exceptions

    · Hierarchies: Multiple hierarchies and ability to view/change forecasts at any level of the hierarchy

    · Groupings: The ability to group items into bespoke groups on the system for analysis and forecasting

    · Multiple units of measure for forecasting and reporting: Sales value £· Sales volume Litres· Sales volume Units· Sales volume Tonnes· Sales volume Pallets· Sales volume - other· Price· Material Cost· Processing Cost· Product Cost (Material cost + Processing cost)· Gross Margin (Price - Product cost)· Gross Added Value (Price - Material cost)

    · Revenue, Cost and Profit forecasting

    · Maintenance of forecast pricing and cost data

    · Minimum of 2-year history to use in statistical modelling at a monthly level

    · Minimum of 2 year rolling forecast

    · Monthly to Weekly: Weekly splitting of data to manage monthly profiles· Ability to handle typical 4-4-5 periods or a user defined split

    · Super-session of history from one product to another

    · Super-session of forecast from one product to another

    · Events management by % adjustment and volume

    · Seasonality profiling for new products based on groupings of existing products

    · Management of a large number of products in a timely manner· Ability to manage large volumes of data by system exception reporting

    · Understandable, easy to use and manipulate data

    · Graphical and tabular capability for data manipulation

    · Manipulation of historical data: Post promotional history adjustment to strip out promotional effects

    · Direct input of causal factors through management information

    · Interactive changes and forecast regeneration and pass up/down

    · Effects register - to record all management information inputs

    · Import of customer forecasts

    · Ability to hold multiple versions of the forecast for measures and comparisons

    · System accuracy measures and performance reporting

    · Weekly import of actual sales - management of erratic/exceptional demand patterns. Weekly tracking of sales and comparison to forecast

    · Sales Analysis: Multi dimensional analysis of sales history and forecast· Ability to model the total UK/European/World market

    · Export and interface of data to other systems


    Please contact the WorldCLASS Sales Office for further information, on:
    +44 1386 871904

    or e-mail us