The Foundation of Business Planning
Virtually all business planning starts with a forecast. Whether you are planning production, promotion, or cash allocation, the quality of your plan is directly related to the quality of the forecasts on which the plan is based. Unfortunately, most enterprise planning systems have very primitive forecasting capabilities—if any at all. This is where Forecast Server comes in.
Vanguard Forecast Server offers a pioneering set of features that are specifically designed to facilitate and improve the forecasting process. These features include:
- An intuitive, easy-to-use Web interface,
- Cutting-edge forecasting analytics,
- Smart, collaborative workflows, and
- Multiple options for integrating with business systems and data sources.
Forecast Server can be configured to run stand-alone or as a component in your existing ERP system. Stand-alone, Forecast Server can manage the entire process from SKU-level forecasting to the generation of optimized production plans and financial projection. As part of your ERP system, Forecast Server can be configured to feed forecasts directly into your database in support of existing planning processes.
Enterprise-Class Abilities
Vanguard has the analytic power to handle your most complex forecasts, the capacity to handle large-scale batch runs, and the flexibility required to allow many individuals to collaborate in the forecasting process.
Vanguard's features include:
- A wide variety of forecasting methods including time-series, statistical, and model-based.
- Support for overrides, adjustments, promotions, and special events.
- An intuitive, interactive Web interface.
- Dynamic reporting.
- Networked for geographically dispersed user groups.
- Support for collaborative, distributed forecasting.
- User authentication, access controls, and version controls.
- Support for data and systems integration.
Quick Views
Vanguard finds the best forecast method to fit your historical data automatically. You can apply a wide variety of special filters, overrides, and adjustment models.
Vanguard builds reports on-demand to help you visualize your forecasts, understand portfolio effects, and see the impacts of hypothetical scenarios.
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