To satisfy your demand forecasting, demand planning, and inventory optimization needs

Whether you’re a new planner or an experienced manager, SmartForecasts® handles your toughest forecasting and planning challenges and delivers bottom-line results you can measure immediately. SmartForecasts is designed to produce fast, accurate forecasts of sales, product demand, safety stock, inventory levels and other key business variables based on its powerful, automated set of statistical forecasting capabilities and your business judgment.

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Manufacturers, distributors, and retailers can easily create accurate demand forecasts for each product item they produce and sell. They can also optimize their inventories with accurate reports of item-specific safety stock requirements necessary to hit the inventory “sweet spot” –the amount of inventory which minimizes costs while satisfying service level goals. SmartForecasts accomplishes all this at processing speeds exceeding 250,000 items per hour on a standard Windows workstation.

In addition, SmartForecasts helps to meet the needs of today’s complex business planning environment by integrating your company’s forecasting and planning processes. You can integrate SmartForecasts directly with all major ERP and SCM systems, as well as host databases such as Oracle, SQL Server and IBM DB2. You can share forecast results easily with all facets of your corporate planning system, and in a form your company can readily use in all its planning processes. As a result, you identify problems faster, make better use of resources, and develop plans that lead to better decisions and better management of corporate assets.

All the tools and capabilities you require
SmartForecasts’ impressive capabilities are designed to handle nearly every forecasting and demand planning scenario your business might encounter.

For starters, SmartForecasts’ Automatic statistical forecasting capability provides fast, accurate forecasts for huge numbers of product items—at the click of a mouse. SmartForecasts selects the best forecasting method for your data and handles all the math, automatically accounting for trends and seasonal patterns. The special promotion planning and modeling capability measures the effects of promotions and other special events and incorporates them into future forecasts. And, if your company experiences irregular, “slow-moving” demand for its service parts or finished goods, SmartForecasts’ patented intermittent demand forecasting technology provides the best forecasting and planning solution on the market today.

In addition, with SmartForecasts’ interactive “eyeball” graphics and Trend Hedging features, you can easily adjust statistical results directly on-screen based on your business knowledge and judgment, leading to more realistic forecasts and informed planning decisions.

A full suite of advanced planning and system integration tools provides the power you require. To see a list of SmartForecasts’ key product features and capabilities, please click here.

Powerful yet easy to use
Users of SmartForecasts rave about its familiar Excel-like user interface, which is exceptionally easy to learn and use. The interface includes the following:

• Synchronized windows displays to simultaneously view product data, forecast graphs and reports
• Full Excel file compatibility and Copy/Paste capabilities to transfer data to and from other Windows applications
• Built-in email links to distribute results to your colleagues
• Context-sensitive Help system to explain not only how to use a program feature but also when and why to use it.

To satisfy different business needs, SmartForecasts is available in two powerful editions:

• SmartForecasts Enterprise, Smart Software’s flagship product, provides full forecasting functionality, database connectivity, intermittent demand planning capability, inventory optimization, and unlimited data capacity for companies managing thousands or even hundreds of thousands of product items.
• SmartForecasts Commercial is a complete sales and demand forecasting solution that is designed to handle smaller forecasting jobs quickly and automatically.

To find out which edition of SmartForecasts best suits your needs, please contact us.