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
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Boosting sales and gross margins by accurately predicting and planning for demand
SAS helped Levi Strauss & Co. improve its SKU mix, increase shipments to key accounts and cluster trade areas based on profitable products.
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A multinational retailer operating hypermarkets, discount department stores & grocery stores
Combining online shopping ease with the advantages of a physical store presence
SAS helped the retailer reduce shipping costs and improve fulfillment of e-commerce orders by offering in-store pickup.
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A US clothing company with the largest intimates assortment
Generating more accurate demand forecasts
SAS helped the company maximize its inventory to meet demand while minimizing risk.
Become a supply chain superstar with demand planning from SAS.
Get to know how our analytics- and AI-powered demand planning solution ensures that the right level of supply is available through the right channels at the right time – saving you capital and creating a customer experience that always hits the mark.
Explore More on Demand Planning & Beyond
Blog
Is your demand management process stuck in the 1990s?
Learn why demand management leaders are transitioning to an analytics-driven culture investing in cloud-native demand management technologies, data scientists, predictive analytics and machine learning.
Webinar
What Brands Get Wrong About Demand Planning – and 3 Ways to Make It Right
Explore how retail and consumer goods brands can use the right consumer demand signals and other critical downstream data, plus analysis and insights, to stay ahead of the demand curve.
White Paper
4 Stages to Becoming an Intelligent Demand Planning Organization
Check out this interactive guide to getting more from your data with analytically driven, real-time forecasting for retail, consumer products and manufacturing companies.
Video
Real-Time Retail: Fulfill Consumer Demand in an Unpredictable World
Discover how our demand planning and supply chain solutions use machine learning, automation and optimization to help you ensure the right level of product is available to cover demand across channels.
Related SAS Retail & Consumer Goods Solutions
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- SAS® Intelligent Planning SuiteAccurately forecast shopper and consumer demand by creating seamless merchandise and demand plans.
- 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.