DEMAND PLANNING OR SUPPLY PLANNING?
What exactly is the difference between Demand Planning and Supply Planning?
Simply put, it’s all about Customer Forecast versus Inventory Supply. How you manage the relationship between the two defines the value you can deliver to the demand chain.
That relationship’s complicated. It takes more hours than there are in a day to put together all the puzzle pieces needed to accurately predict how customers will act on your items, and then align supply to that demand. Blue Ridge makes this super-easy.
Blue Ridge is a unified demand planning solution that uses predictive analytics and intelligent demand planning algorithms to create the optimal supply plan based on the unique dynamics of every item, location, channel and supplier – every day.
WHAT IS BLUE RIDGE DEMAND PLANNING?
Blue Ridge is a powerful cloud-native solution to forecast, plan, collaborate and strategically execute on inventory allocations and replenishment. The system uses demand and supply intelligence with automation to create accurate daily forecasts, so you can easily spot and react to changes in customer demand.
With Blue Ridge demand planning, inventory teams can proactively forecast demand to make a material impact on service levels, sales and margins:
- Less time spent on demand exception analysis, placing POs, etc.
- Better accuracy for seasonal & intermittent SKUs
- Insight into events that affect sales, such as spiffs & promotions
- Improved demand fulfillment + significant inventory reduction
- Real ROI results in weeks, not months
Want to learn more?
Checkout Our Other Demand Planning Resources
eBook
Challenge the status
Quo
Change happens. But misalignment of inventory with customer demand is NOT an acceptable casualty of business. Embrace change, with the power of data and new models of precision in demand planning.
eBook
7 Steps To Inventory Optimization
Customer data intelligence, alignment, collaboration & precision. That’s how you will win in The Age of Amazon. Learn these demand planning steps to deliver outstanding customer and stakeholder experiences.
Industry Report
2019 State of Wholesale Supply Chain Industry
How does your demand planning strategy stack up to peers? See where advanced forecasting technologies like machine learning can offset challenges with rising costs, long lead times, supplier collaboration & more.
Ready to Transform Your Business with our Cloud-Native Supply Chain Solutions?