International Trading
Forecast Planning
Forecast Planning
In terms of planning and forecasting you need to be able to plan, manage and control costs in your fresh produce business. Planning and forecasting expands your supply chain capabilities, helping you to improve service and increase efficiency leading to reduced costs for your business.
Investing in a new system gives you a chance to improve the way you manage inventory, forecasting, scheduling and production. When company growth and business volumes force you to stop using inefficient methods, then you’re ready for planning and forecasting. Our software allows you forecast sales for weeks in advance, plan your day or week based off forecast sales and schedule all activities for your operation allows you to know your expected results for a day well in advance.
Benefits
- Improved customer service levels
- Reduced operational costs through better planning and scheduling
- Accurate yields based off net weight of product on intake
- 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
- 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 packhouse
- 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
