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