Manage your demand with greater precision using demand planning software powered by artificial intelligence.
Forecasting demand is becoming increasingly complex.
Seasonality, promotions, product launches, special events, and changes in purchasing behavior: many factors can create a gap between your forecasts and actual demand.
When forecasts lack accuracy, the consequences ripple through the entire supply chain: stockouts, excess inventory, tied-up cash, reduced product availability, and an increase in manual adjustments.
The Demand Planning software integrates into a comprehensive supply chain solution to turn your data into forecasts you can use right away. Thanks to artificial intelligence and advanced predictive models, it detects trends, corrects historical biases, and tailors forecasts to the specific characteristics of each product and each location.
This gives your teams a more reliable view of future demand so they can better anticipate needs, improve inventory management, and plan procurement and supply flows more precisely.
Analyze sales history, trends, seasonality, promotions, and special events to better understand fluctuations in demand and anticipate their impact.
Take advantage of more than 60 statistical and artificial intelligence models. Optimix automatically selects the models best suited to the characteristics of your products and your retail locations.
Automate the correction of historical data, the calculation of forecasts, and the analysis of their reliability. Your teams can devote more time to exceptions and high-value decisions.
Turn your demand forecasts into operational decisions so you can adjust your inventory levels and procurement to meet future needs.
Create forecasts tailored to your organization and drill down to the product-site level to accurately identify local variations in demand.
Promotions, holidays, weather, product launches or replacements, and new store openings: enhance your forecasts with variables that may impact your sales.
Move from Forecasting to AI-Driven Demand Planning
A statistical forecast is no longer sufficient when demand changes rapidly.
Optimix Solutions combines statistical models, machine learning, and data analysis to develop forecasts that can be tailored to the specific characteristics of your business.
The solution analyzes your historical data, identifies trends and seasonal patterns, takes sales events into account, and automatically selects the most accurate forecasting model.
This gives you a dynamic forecast that directly informs your supply chain decisions.
Automatically identify seasonal patterns and long-term trends so you can adjust your forecasts to reflect changes in your sales.
Take into account the impact of promotions and one-time events to prevent them from causing a lasting bias in your forecasts.
Incorporate product launches and replacements into your forecasting process to anticipate demand even when historical data is limited.
Enrich your analyses with variables such as weather, holidays, or other external events that may influence demand.
Adapt the models to local conditions and gain a detailed view of demand at the level relevant to your operations.
Regularly compare your forecasts with actual demand to identify discrepancies and continuously improve the quality of your projections.
→ More sales made Anticipate demand early enough to improve product availability and minimize lost sales.
→ Less tied-up capital Adjust your inventory levels to match projected demand and reduce costly excess inventory.
→ Faster decision-making Give your teams a shared, up-to-date view of demand to facilitate operational trade-offs.
→ More time for analysis Reduce repetitive tasks and allow supply chain teams to focus on exceptions and strategic decisions.
Demand planning is most effective when it is integrated with operational decisions.
The APS Optimix solution allows you to use demand forecasts to inform the other stages of your supply chain planning.
Generate accurate forecasts using statistical and machine learning models that can account for historical data, trends, seasonality, and events.
Adjust your inventory levels to match anticipated demand in order to strike the best balance between product availability, costs, and tied-up capital.
Convert forecasts into procurement requirements and plan your supplier orders based on expected changes in inventory levels.
Anticipate future demand and improve the coordination of your procurement and deliveries.
Don’t let fluctuations in demand get the better of you.
With Optimix Solutions, turn your data into reliable forecasts and your forecasts into faster, more informed supply chain decisions.
Our customers are our first ambassadors
Reduced out-of-stocks → Increased salesFewer products missing from shelves or online, resulting in more sales.
Reduced inventory → Improved cash flowLess tied-up capital and better inventory turnover.
Improved product availability → Better customer satisfaction The right products, in the right place, at the right time, for a seamless customer experience.
Discover how Optimix Solutions can help you improve the accuracy of your forecasts and transform your demand planning into a true driver of supply chain performance.
FAQ
Demand planning software helps companies anticipate future demand by analyzing historical data and factors that may influence sales. The resulting forecasts can then be used to plan inventory, procurement, and supply chain operations.
The primary purpose of sales forecasting is to estimate future sales based on available data.
Demand Planning uses these forecasts as part of a broader planning process: analyzing demand fluctuations, taking business events into account, and using forecasts to guide inventory and procurement decisions.
In particular, Optimix analyzes historical data, trends, seasonality, and sales events. The solution features more than 60 statistical and artificial intelligence models and automatically selects the appropriate model for each product, location, or segment.
Yes. Optimix can account for seasonality, promotions, and various one-time events to prevent them from skewing the demand analysis.
Yes. Factors such as the weather, holidays, product launches or replacements, and the opening of new locations can be taken into account in the forecasting process.
Better demand forecasting allows for earlier adjustments to inventory and procurement. It thus helps minimize stockouts while avoiding the need to offset uncertainty with excessive inventory levels.
The Optimix solution is designed to address the challenges faced by companies dealing with a wide range of products, locations, distribution channels, and fluctuations in demand, particularly in the retail and distribution sectors.
