
Retail & Consumer Goods Solutions
Demand Planning
Automate and accelerate demand planning insights across your supply chain.
How SAS® Enables Better Demand Planning
SAS provides collaborative forecasting and demand planning steps, transforming demand planning into a continuous, flexible process.
Cloud native forecasting for any size company
- Automatically generate statistically driven, weighted consensus forecasts.
- Monitor forecast performance to understand value added or lost at each step.
- Use out-of-the-box modeling strategies with predefined models.
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.
Optimized transportation costs
- Adopt enhanced end-to-end supply chain execution.
- Connect demand plans to products and freight on the move.
- Reduce transportation costs while increasing agility.

FEATURED SOLUTION
SAS Intelligent Planning Cloud
Get hyperaccurate demand planning and forecasting in a flexible, scalable cloud analytic service. Now available for both consumer goods and grocery sectors.
Why choose SAS for demand planning?
Automate and optimize inventory distribution by calculating optimized inventory levels and order quantities for every SKU, location and channel.
Improve forecasting accuracy
Model and forecast all your products and selling locations with a patented statistical forecasting engine that uses advanced forecasting methods.
Optimize inventory & reduce stockouts
Use analytics to drive product where it's needed most to meet customer demand while managing the overall costs of inventory.
Take the guesswork out of forecasting
Use retail forecasting models that include underlying trends, seasonality, promotions, etc. Automated, large-scale forecasting selects the best-fit model based on individual time series.
Customer Success
Working Smarter With SAS
Become a supply chain superstar with demand planning from SAS.
Related SAS Retail & Consumer Goods Solutions
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- SAS® Intelligent Planning CloudEnsure on-shelf availability through a hyperaccurate demand planning service.
- SAS® Intelligent DecisioningEasily create, manage and govern robust, analytically driven business rules to power decisioning at scale.
- SAS® Data ManagementEnsure better, more reliable data integrated from any source.
- Multichannel Marketing Hub | SAS® Customer Intelligence 360Individualize every customer interaction in real time with a modern multichannel marketing hub.
- SAS® Visual Data Mining and Machine LearningSupport end-to-end data mining and machine learning processes with comprehensive visual and programming interfaces for users of all skill levels.