E2 Collaborative Demand Planning
Demand forecasts are the lifeblood of companies. They drive the financial forecasts provided to Wall Street and are the basis upon which a company will plan its manufacturing, procurement, and supply network operations. Consequently, the more accurate its demand forecasts, the better prepared a company is to match supply to demand, maximize revenue, minimize inventories and operational costs, and grow shareholder value. E2 Collaborative Demand Planning is designed to increase the accuracy of a supplier’s demand forecasts by enabling automated collaboration with customers, and by improving the quality of information used to inform forecasts.
A key measure of supplier success is how fast it can return a commit to a customer forecast. E2 Collaborative Demand Planning is designed to increase the operational efficiency and speed by which you are able to respond to customer forecasts. The result? Increased customer satisfaction and competitive advantage.
E2 Collaborative Demand Planning is able to provide these benefits by tying into all of the backend systems that house response data, and bringing this information to your fingertips without requiring any off-line processes.
Key Features
- Sales forecasting
- Order forecasting
- Promotion forecasting
- Consensus forecasting
- Exception-driven workflows and email alerts
- Aggregated data views and exports
- Sales and operations planning (S&OP)
- Consumption/build planning
- Constrained planning workflows
- Data auditing
- Data integration
Key Benefits
- Real-time visibility into partner systems
- More efficient use of internal resources
- Improved supply-demand alignment
- Earlier identification of potential problems
- Flexible integration with customer systems
- Lower TCO than competing solutions
E2 Collaborative Demand Planning enables you to manage by exception. The product tracks all of the key measures in the forecast-collaboration and commit process and alerts you to any potential issues. This way, you can run your forecast collaboration and commit process on “auto-pilot,” addressing only those issues that are flagged as exceptions.
