BlueSky Demand Planning & Forecaster automatically creates a forecast for you. It can forecast off shipments, orders or actual sales. When forecasting off actual sales, it looks at each items seasonality, velocity and historical sales. It then dynamically selects the forecast model most appropriate for that item and generates an optimistic, pessimistic and realistic forecast for you. Results can be written back to the database for futher reporting. For example to align forecasts with promotions. Forecasts can also be adjusted.
It's easy to learn and easy to use because it was designed using Microsoft Office 2007 motif. In fact, using BlueSky Demand Planning & Forecasting’s Intelligent Selection mode, you can create accurate forecasts in minutes - even if you don’t have a background in forecasting or statistics! Powerful enough to take on all of your forecasting challenges, BlueSky Demand Planning & Forecasting provides a complete range of forecasting models and all the diagnostic tools you need for forecasting demand/consumption, sales or budgets.
With BlueSky Demand Planning & Forecasting, you can do it all - generate accurate forecasts quickly, make adjustments based on your business knowledge, collaborate with colleagues, create dazzling presentations, work with your existing data and interface directly with other systems. BlueSky Demand Planning & Forecasting will save you time and money while improving your planning and decision making.