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Manufacturing Industry:

To be competitive in today's manufacturing marketplace, companies must be thinking lean. Good forecasting and inventory planning tools are essential components to any lean strategy. A lean production plan is always product demand centric. Produce what the customer wants, when the customer needs it, with just the right amount of safety stock to cover unforseen demand.

Avercast's Solution:

For manufacturing companies that need a lean, demand centric production plan with optimized safety stock levels, we recommend Avercast Business Forecasting (ABF) and Avercast Supply Planning (ASP) to specifically:

• Analyze Demand History
  
• Evaluate multiple forecast formulas
  
• Forecast on an item by item or summary basis
  
• Allow adjustment at any level
  
• Present data graphically
  
• Plan in monthly, weekly, or daily time periods
  
• Nets Requirements from Multi-level Warehouses
  
• Quick Identification of Action items