Food Services
Forecast Planning
Forecast Planning
Investing in a new system gives you a chance to improve the way you manage your inventory, forecasting, scheduling and production. When company growth and business volumes force you to stop using inefficient methods, then you’re ready for Forecasting and Planning. Our software allows you forecast sales for weeks in advance, plan your week or day based off forecast sales and schedule all activities for your operation. Our software for food service allows you to know your expected results for a day in advance.
Benefits
- Improved customer service levels
- Reduced operational costs through better planning and scheduling
- Increased FTE productivity through live job pooling
- Pack ahead planning
- Assigning the correct pallets to customer requirements to ensure maximum efficiency
- Real time information to drive on the job decision making
- Production forecasts
- Paperless floor
- Fully integrated operational cost models allowing accurate measurements on warehouse performance
- Scheduling to support 24 x 7 operations, multiple shifts, machine downtime and customer DOT
- Full real time view of daily performance based off forecast verses actual
Features
- Forecast sales volumes for 6 weeks in advance by customer and product
- View forecasts to actual orders and assign stock to these orders in different units (case, weight, fruit)
- Flexibility in creating plan - multiple customers same product, multiple products, multiple suppliers, same customers
- Full visibility of all pallets and associated accreditations to customers demands
- Easy assigning of direct pick stock and stock for packing house
- Assign jobs that needs to be done to the raw material based off real time quality information
- Provide estimate finish times based on real time data on raw material quality, machine efficiency, number of people
- Supports breaks, machine down time, changing work between lines and giving correct costs to each pack
- Highlights potential delays that can lead to issues with DOT slots
