Dramatically Improve Your Forecasting Without Interrupting Your Processes
Forecast Server improves the quality, reliability, and speed of decision planning through:
- Improving your process's forecasting accuracy and speed with
industry-leading forecasting analytics.
- Analyzing alternatives using state-of-the-art modeling and simulation techniques to "play out" thousands of demand planning scenarios.
- Delegating and Collaborating via a Web-based interface that lets you assign each key input to the right expert anywhere in the world and facilitate real-time consensus across your entire enterprise.
- Automating forecasting and reporting between any data source and ERP system.
Improving The Accuracy and Speed of Your Forecasting Instantly
The accuracy of your forecasting determines your demand planning success. Easily improve your demand planning with the best forecasting solution on the market. Can Better Forecasting Help You?
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.
Avoid Bloated Inventories
Inadequate forecasting is forcing you to carry additional inventory in the form of safety stock. How much safety stock you carry depends on the uncertainty in your forecasts—no uncertainty, no safety stock; large uncertainty, large safety stock.
Primitive forecasting tools assume demand to ensure that materials arrive on time. When assumptions prove wrong, you're stuck with a bloated inventory of safety stock.
Forecast Server Keeps Your Bottom Line Healthy. Get the edge over the competition with demand planning forecasts that cut inventory levels in half, and pay for themselves within months. Unlock Your Profit Potential.
What are some examples of the benefits you can get from a Forecast Server implementation?
- Eliminate overstocks and lost sales by automatically simulating and evaluating all possible stocking options
- Forecast events, promotions, and new products
- Pull from any data source, push to any ERP system
- Benefit from optimal inventory measures such as reorder levels, economic order quantities, and target inventories
- Automate forecasts, inventory management, procurement planning, allocations, and replenishment
Analyzing Every Possible Alternative in Seconds
Optimizing inventory levels requires a detailed measure of the uncertainty in forecasts and the application of some very sophisticated analytics. To address this uncertainty, Forecast Server uses simulation techniques to evaluate all possible stocking options. These simulations give far better results than the usual inventory management formulas implemented by most software. As for analytics, Vanguard's forecast engine is benchmarked as the most accurate on the market and our inventory planning module is equally capable.
Delegation and Collaboration
Are you asking people to provide inputs for areas outside of their expertise? Then your forecasts are suffering.
Forecast Server's Web-based collaboration lets you assign each key input to the right expert anywhere in the world, and gives them a comprehensive toolbox of methods to forecast values for the inputs they own.
In addition, all Forecast Server users can modify inputs to perform what-if analyses separate from the authoritative database, and submit suggestions to each input owner to improve forecasts. While the inputs from your experts remain safe and secure, Forecast Server encourages collaboration and refines forecasts across your enterprise.
Automate Forecasting Seamlessly
Inventory management functions are easily integrated with Forecast Server, giving you the ability to manage each stock item in its own dashboard.
Vanguard Optimizes Your Existing Processes Without Interruption
Your demand planning process benefits when Forecast Server provides the high quality forecasts your planning applications need; and Forecast Server can take your process a step further by providing optimal inventory measures such as reorder levels, economic order quantities, and target inventories.
Pull from any data source, push to any ERP system.
Poor Forecasts Are Holding Your Profits Back
Demand planning is one area where it is relatively easy for us to estimate the cost saving you can achieve through forecast improvement. We do this by using your data and a computer simulation to "play out" thousands of scenarios for your company's future. The result will give you a detailed picture of what is likely to happen if you were to use Forecast Server as part of your demand planning process.
Call +1-919-859-4101 to speak with a Vanguard representative and schedule your free detailed assessment.
Enterprise-class Features
- The forecasting methods you need, including time-series, statistical, and model-based.
- Include business plans with overrides, adjustments, promotions, and special events.
- Collaborative fast from anywhere with an intuitive, interactive Web interface.
- Dynamic, customizable reporting.
- User authentication, access controls, and version controls.
- Integrate data and systems with any infrastructure.
- And much more...
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