Planning and forecast tasks

Planning tasks:

• Short, medium, and long-term sales planning for all customer segments
• Planning of sales, revenue, costs, contribution margins as well as purchasing
• Top-down and bottom-up planning and comparison including probability checks and defined prerequisites
• Evaluation, analysis and management of targets
• Sales controlling and management

Forecast tasks:

• Time series management
• Creation of top-down and bottom-up forecasts
• Creation and representation of scalable sales portfolios with flexible definition of customer and regional structure
• Support of all state-of-the-art forecast procedures (regression analysis, automated search for reference days (reference day method, extrapolation, artificial neuronal networks, standard load profiles)
• Manual, automatic and batch forecast
• Periodical recalculation of the forecast for direct portfolio update