SAS® High-Performance Forecasting

Produce millions of high-quality forecasts quickly and automatically to improve planning and decision making

Benefits

• Produce trustworthy forecasts that reflect the realities of your business. Automatic selection of business drivers, holidays and events aids in the forecasting process, producing trustworthy forecasts that reflect the realities of your business environment.
• Focus on what’s most important. By providing automatic, reliable forecasts on a large scale, SAS High-Performance Forecasting makes complex forecasting processes manageable so forecasters can focus their attention on the most critical forecasts.
• Reduce bias and forecasting error. Statistically sound forecasts are produced automatically, reducing the potential bias and politics of an entirely judgemental forecasting process.
• Improve inventory management. SAS forecasting provides insights into future demands for your products, enabling you to better match supply with demand, avoiding excess inventory and the associated expenses. Forecasts can be calculated for every product at each location, ensuring you are getting the right inventory to the right place at the right time. Forecasts are generated in a scalable batch process so they can be easily integrated into a production forecasting environment.
• Improve forecasts for items that rarely sell. The software includes intermittent demand models designed to forecast slow-moving goods so you can match inventory with the next spike in demand.

Download the complete SAS High-Performance Forecasting Fact Sheet.