Supply & Demand Planning
Achieve profitability while meeting omnichannel customer demand, without over- or under-stocking.
How SAS Delivers Supply & Demand Planning
SAS provides a highly automated, fully integrated supply and demand planning solution that breaks down traditional barriers between planning steps, transforming planning into a continuous, flexible process.
Small-, medium- or large-scale forecasting
- Automatically generate statistically driven, weighted consensus forecasts.
- Monitor forecast performance to understand value added or lost at each step.
- Use time-series forecasting to build models that reflect your business realities.
Demand sensing & shaping
- Visually analyze demand data to spot patterns and insights related to sales, shipments, pricing, promotions, etc.
- Evaluate sales history and plan for future events – new products, locations, channel introduction – using what-if scenario analysis.
- Measure the effect of sales and marketing strategies on consumer demand using multitiered causal analysis.
Inventory optimization
- Gain near-real-time insight into supply and demand dynamics so you can avoid under- or over-stocking.
- Calculate optimal inventory policies using multiechelon optimization with state-of-the-art simulation.
- Use predictive modeling and what-if analysis to find out how different variables will affect the supply/demand balance.
Related Products & Solutions
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- SAS® Data ManagementEnsure better, more reliable data integrated from any source.
- SAS® Intelligent DecisioningEnable analytically driven real-time interactions, and automate operational business decisions at scale.
- SAS® Intelligent Planning SuiteAccurately forecast shopper and consumer demand by creating seamless merchandise and demand plans.
- SAS® Marketing AutomationGet more campaigns out the door in an automated, trackable and highly repeatable fashion.
- SAS® Visual AnalyticsVisually explore all data, discover new patterns and publish reports to the web and mobile devices.
- SAS® Visual Data Mining and Machine LearningSolve your most complex problems faster with a single, integrated in-memory environment.
- SAS® Visual StatisticsCreate and modify predictive models faster than ever using a visual interface and in-memory processing.