QAD Demand Management

QAD Demand Management — with its Demand Management Engine, Collaborative Portal, and Inventory Optimization components— encompasses all areas of demand management from creation of forecasts and tracking of errors, optimizing of inventory levels, to collaboration with supply chain members, flexible reporting of demand activities and integration with QAD Enterprise Applications.

Collaboration is allowed with all demand sources, leveraging sophisticated forecasting methods, and detecting fluctuations in forecasts and demand as soon as they happen. Exceptions can be communicated enabling the optimization of production and fulfillment.

The Collaborative portal function provides the platform for Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) commonly used in consumer products supply chains.

The Value of QAD Demand Management

• Optimizes supplier efficiencies by providing more accurate predictions of customer demand
• Automatically calculates economic order quantities, lead times and inventory levels using the intelligent planning advisor and user defined business rules for inventory optimization
• Optimizes safety stocks, service levels, reorder points, periods of coverage and lead times to ensure peak inventory management performance
• Supports Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment as driven from major retailers, allows seasonal trends and external data such as scan data to be input as causal factors to build forecast by territory, brand, product SKU, etc.
• Supports the complexity related to 'daily fresh' forecasting

QAD Demand Management Engine

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