What is a sales forecast?

A sales forecast shows a prediction of what future sales are likely to be.
Avercast sales forecasting products use complex algorithms to produce a reliable, accurate sales forecast. Using 250+ forecasting algorithms, developed over the years, our sales forecasting tool uses your past sales data to forecast future sales for you.
The 250+ algorithms ensure utmost accuracy in our sales forecasts. Our software takes a variety of data into account when creating your forecast. This data includes past sales, market conditions, seasonal trends, consumer profiles, and more.
Your sales team can use this data to assess your product performance, understand your future sales & decide required steps to increase sales in coming time periods. At Avercast, we understand every business is different. That’s why our sales forecasting system lets you alter the forecasting methods to ensure accurate forecasts.

Who uses Sales Forecasting Software?

Businesses that want to see success, growth, and positive change use sales forecasting software. Sales forecasting can be implemented in
many different sizes and types of companies.
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A wide variety of companies use these systems including manufacturing, retail, automotive, food & beverage, and many more.
Let’s imagine that you’re a retail clothing company. Using retail sales forecasting software, you want to determine what the best things are for you to be doing. It can be hard to gauge what consumers are going to want, and how much product they’ll buy. Clothing gets tricky too, because styles are constantly changing. There’s a lot you must be aware and stay on top of in this industry.
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Sales forecasting software allows you to see projections of what your sales are going to be. With Avercast, you can forecast up to 5 years in the
future! Imagine what you could do with that knowledge.
Our customers are able to implement our sales forecasting software with any ERP system they use. Avercast offers a complete demand planning suite,
and sales are a big part of that planning.

What Sales Forecasting Software can do for your business

Sales forecasting software provides many benefits to the businesses that utilize it.

Some of these benefits are:

Offers accurate insight of future sales
A fast and intuitive user interface for efficient and effective planning
Allows users to plan to meet upcoming demand
Saves money as overstock and stockouts are eliminated
Helps you make effective budgetary plans

Why choose Avercast’s Sales Forecasting Software?

Using 250+ complex forecasting algorithms, Avercast Sales Forecasting Software ensures accurate forecasting at every step. It lets you determine accurate sales forecasts for up to 5 years in the future.
With custom forecasting, you can choose the right algorithms for your business, ensuring accurate forecasting, every time. Our team of experts are always ready to help you get the results you desire.

What You should Do!

If you have a business that offers some form of product to consumers, you could benefit greatly from our sales forecasting tool

Avercast gives you what you need, so you can give your customers what they need.

We have been in the supply chain game for a long time, and we’re confident we can help with all of your forecasting needs. Our experts would love to share more specifics with you. Feel free to contact us and sign up for a free demonstration with an Avercast professional.

"Avercast has freed up millions of dollars in inventory and allowed us to justify a new hire"

Paul Feorene

Manager - Logistics, & Parts Management

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"They used one sheet per brand... [and] we had to aggregate everything. We would pretty much use the historic numbers to try and project everything. Avercast allowed us to do more.”

Martin Toh

Executive Vice President of Operations

"One of the great things Avercast did [was give] us the opportunity to take as many SKUs as we wanted and give them historical data and run the forecast in the system and see what that output was.”

Josh Rocha

Supply Chain Manager

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"With Avercast we are able to combine both forecasting and supply planning and toggle between them easily. With the visibility gained from Avercast, our forecast accuracy has improved.”

Erica Davis

Director of Planning

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Cassidy Laudadio

Forecasting Specialist

“First, the forecasting software has helped us tremendously. In addition, the visibility into our current inventory hold has helped us very much. Without Avercast I don’t know how I would find out how much inventory I have and what I am going to end at."

Nicolette Molina

Senior Supply-Chain Analyst.

“[OOLY] was always out of stock, couldn’t deliver, and always ship backorders [where] customers had to wait forever to get their [orders].” “Within a year, we corrected our image in the marketplace. […] We were able to… optimize our [inventory turns].”

Matt Peters

VP of Operations

Sales Forecasting Software

What is a sales forecast?

Who uses Sales Forecasting Software?

What Sales Forecasting Software can do for your business

Why choose Avercast’s Sales Forecasting Software?