Frequent production disruptions, high setup costs due to the stock out, inadequate inventory mix and delivery delays: these are the factors that often compromise company performances. A poor inventory turn and a low-level client service are the immediate consequences. All this results in losses caused by the lost sales and high inventory and reorder costs. Very often these problems are caused by wrong and unreliable forecast generations.

To meet these needs we have designed and developed Manufacturing Forecasting (MF), the only forecast management tool currently available on the market, designed for the manufacturing companies. The MF features enable the integration of the historical data with the acquired portfolio and negotiations, as well as the checking of the forecast feasibility on the basis of the production capacity. Thanks to MF it is possible to generate differentiated forecasts for the product aggregation according to the time horizon and integrate different forecast plans. As regards the warehouses, with MF it is possible to speed up the production of the semi-finished products without creating excessive stock and dimension the safety stocks according to demand. Furthermore, MF can be easily integrated with all main ERP systems.

With the help of MF, our clients have:

• Increased the client service level
• Increased the turnover through reduction of the lost sales
• Increased the productivity
• Reduced the stock- and obsolescence-related costs
• Reduced the forecast management costs