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Demand forecasting, so you reorder to a number not a guess.
Forecasts built from your own sales history, the calendar and seasonality, turning ordering from a gut feel into a decision you can trust.
Guessing your orders costs money twice
Order too much and you write off waste and tie up cash in stock. Order too little and you lose the sale and the customer. Most businesses swing between both because ordering relies on memory and gut feel. Forecasting replaces the guess with a number drawn from what actually happened.
What goes into a forecast
- Your real sales history, at the level of individual items
- Day of week, seasonality and known trends
- Calendar events, holidays and local factors
- Lead times, so you order in time to restock
Where it pays off most
Restaurants and food businesses cutting spoilage. Retail and ecommerce avoiding both stockouts and overstock. Any business where what you hold has a cost and what you miss has a cost.
Forecasting on its own, or built in
We can add forecasting to your existing stock process, or build it into a full operational system so the forecast becomes the reorder, automatically.
FAQ
Common questions.
How much sales history do I need?
The more the better, but useful forecasts start with a few months of clean sales data. We help get your data into shape as part of the build.
Is this AI?
Where it helps, yes. The point is accuracy, not buzzwords. We use the simplest method that gives reliable numbers for your business.
Can it trigger reordering automatically?
Yes, when forecasting is built into an operational system the forecast can become a reorder with a click, or fully automatically.
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