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The secret to excellence in demand planning is all about fundamentals. Real-time, continuous, and fully-automated data pipeline across sales, inventory, and procurement functions.
Our Approach
- Consolidate sales data from every channel where your products are sold.
- Pull inventory data from all locations where you and your distribution partners "buffer" or hold stock.
- Create simple demand snapshots on a cadence that automatically queues POs to suppliers.
Consolidate demand
Whether you're doing $2M or $200M.... the hardest part of demand planning is the getting all your order data in one place.
The good news is that DossARP makes this easier than ever before.
Prebuilt Integrations across E-Commerce, EDI, and Point-of-Sale platforms to keep track of your sales channels regardless of where they are.
Branching and If/Else Capabilities that allow you to check for all kinds of order or customer conditions and take corresponding actions.
Do we have enough inventory to meet this demand?
Once demand is KNOWN, teams need to assess:
- What’s in stock right now across 3PLs, in-house warehouses, and retail locations?
- What inventory is scheduled to arrive from suppliers and leave for distributors?
- Where are the gaps that need immediate attention?
Executing against a Demand Plan
Easily overlay demand and inventory data to build a composite Demand Plan which stays up to date in real-time.
With this, your team can start scenario planning and take snapshots based on various conditions:
- What if we adjust this SKU for this promo we're running?
- Do we have enough for X/Y/Z SKUs in these geos? I think we need to 2.2x volume.
Automate the execution phase by scheduling POs, aligning promotions, and syncing distributor activities.
The mechanism that used to be driven by days of manual report scrubbing is now almost entirely hands-free. The power of nailing the fundamentals and closing the loop is how we put Demand Planning on Autopilot.