Forecasting and Planning

Maintain supply plans for every item and location, incorporating current customer orders, supplier orders, and sales forecasts. Changes trigger immediate evaluation, adjustment, and action for optimized supply planning.

Achieve true inter-enterprise collaboration by synchronizing your supply plan with trading partners in real time. Automatic alerts and notifications facilitate communication and enable timely adjustments to the plan based on supplier responses.

Define comprehensive planning rules for each product, supplier, and location, including facility calendars, lot sizing, safety stock policies, and lead times. Quickly adapt plans to seasonal or promotional requirements for accurate modeling.

Scale your planning environment across multiple servers to efficiently model complex, multi-level supply chains. Slingshot's scalable architecture ensures unlimited capacity for future growth.

Enter forecasts for each item and location, leveraging historical demand data and forecast models to generate accurate demand forecasts. Utilize forecasting algorithms and review tools to adjust and improve forecast accuracy.

Generate planned orders for purchases, warehouse transfers, or assembly work orders based on demand. Explore multi-level bills of materials and resources to ensure efficient resource allocation and component planning.

View future transportation requirements across your supply chain, evaluate alternatives, and optimize transportation costs. Monitor the number of loads, weights, cubes, and pallets for effective logistics management.

Use Slingshot's Supply Chain Explorer to view thumbnail inventory and resource projections. Color-coded graphics highlight shortages, excess stock, and resource constraints for quick analysis and decision-making.

Easily trace supply and demand transactions to identify the source of shortages or excess inventory. Pegging provides visibility into customer orders, forecasts, lot sizing, and safety stock requirements impacting supply.

Automate plan exception notices, including stock-outs, overdue shipments, excess inventory, and forecast review requirements. Planners can quickly address notices and take appropriate actions to maintain supply chain efficiency.

Build inbound and outbound loads, optimize capacity utilization, and balance shipments. Generate manifests and load sheets for accurate picking, shipping, and logistics management.