It all starts with the demand forecast
Intelligent demand forecasts inform optimized downstream plans, improving financial gains and customer service levels.
Vanguard Predictive Planning™ for demand planning
Demand planning should include tools built for collaboration and analysis. Vanguard Predictive Planning has both. Advanced workflow capabilities, a market-leading Collaboration Hub, and consumable analytics enable organizations to achieve better performance.
End-user experience
By combining an intuitive user interface, a process-centric workflow and a market-leading Collaboration Hub, Vanguard Predictive Planning is continually selected by organizations due to the uniquely positive user experience. Users are delighted with Vanguard’s features, which improve their day-to-day performance. Unlike other software applications, Vanguard Predictive Planning is a native cloud-based platform built on a real-time mesh network that delivers unparalleled response time.
Demand sensing
Vanguard’s next-generation demand planning includes advanced support for demand sensing. Demand sensing requires software that can ingest and analyze a large volume of data: many times, from multiple sources. Vanguard delivers with our market-leading UHIO database, which performs such analyses in seconds from sources such as:
The goal of leveraging demand sensing is to gain early insight into potential new patterns; possibly closing any gap between your plan and reality in your supply chain. Vanguard’s vast library of mathematical models have been designed and tuned for demand sensing. Vanguard Predictive Planning ingests data at a higher frequency, in some instances, up to hourly refreshes, enabling adjustments and new insights into your short-term forecasts.
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Advanced Analytic Forecasting 
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The Business Case for Demand Forecasting
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