Accurate demand forecasting is the foundation of effective production and inventory management. FlexiEPM provides tools for precise sales planning across products, customers, distribution channels, and markets — helping organizations achieve their business goals.
The system fills the gaps left by traditional ERP solutions by adapting demand forecasts to the specific needs of each company. With advanced analysis and planning features, FlexiEPM streamlines operational processes, eliminates inefficiencies, and increases forecast accuracy. It combines demand forecasting with process optimization, giving you full control over business performance.
Accurate demand forecasting starts with a deep understanding of historical data. Identifying market trends, seasonal variations, and customer or product dynamics enables better, data-driven decisions.
FlexiEPM offers advanced financial controlling tools customized to your organization’s requirements, delivering detailed reports with key performance indicators such as gross margin or net profit.
The system allows the creation of a dedicated Sales Forecasting Data Lake, using a robust analytical model designed for demand planning. It offers detailed insights at the transactional level, covering both sales history and open orders.
FlexiEPM integrates seamlessly with accounting, ERP, and CRM systems, as well as other tools used by sales departments. This flexible integration enables automatic data imports and updates, ensuring consistency and accuracy across the organization. Data can be refreshed several times a day, allowing teams to work with real-time information.
The FlexiEPM Demand Forecasting module includes predefined planning templates that simplify the management and analysis of forecasting processes.
Users can analyze historical data across different time horizons and enter forecasts by product, distribution channel, and customer. Templates also support additional dimensions, such as ordered quantities, expected demand, regular vs. promotional sales, or bonus items.
FlexiEPM makes it easy to compare current demand forecasts with budgets and previous sales plans, providing insights into trends and deviations at various levels of detail.
The system supports key KPIs such as sales dynamics, deviations, and average prices. Its flexibility allows customization of templates to specific business models, ensuring full control over demand forecasts and sales performance.
FlexiEPM gives you the freedom to design planning structures that fit your organization’s logic. You can create separate forecasts for top customers (e.g., top 50) while grouping others into broader categories.
Mapping customers from ERP systems and defining hierarchies according to your needs is intuitive. The same applies to managing regions, territories, and distribution channels.
The system supports detailed SKU-level planning, automatically synchronized with the ERP product master data, ensuring that planning is always based on the most up-to-date information.
You can model rolling forecasts over 12 or 18 months, or define shorter cycles (weekly or 10-day periods), aligning the forecasting horizon with your business rhythm.
FlexiEPM delivers complete demand forecasting capabilities — combining quantitative and financial perspectives. It provides production and procurement teams with detailed forecasts by volume and assortment, while management receives financial projections of turnover and margins.
The system adapts to your product structure, allowing forecasts in units such as packs, kilograms, or cubic meters. Quantities are automatically converted into values using current price lists and promotions, ensuring an accurate representation of market dynamics.
Parameters can be entered manually or imported from ERP and controlling systems, maintaining data consistency between operational and financial forecasts.
FlexiEPM enables flexible modeling of planning structures and advanced analytics during demand forecasting. Key metrics can be shown or hidden depending on the user’s needs, improving visibility and focus.
The platform supports OLAP analysis and ad-hoc reporting, allowing users to explore data by products, clients, regions, or time. This gives marketing, sales, and management teams comprehensive insight into performance and trends, facilitating fast and accurate decision-making.
FlexiEPM combines analytical depth with user-friendly flexibility, making data exploration intuitive and decision support more powerful.
FlexiEPM stores historical forecasts and measures deviations based on production or supply cycles. You can compare past forecasts with actual results to assess forecasting accuracy.
For companies with 3–4 month production cycles, the Forecast Accuracy Index is calculated using current and historical forecasts, helping identify patterns and improve precision over time.
Reports on forecast accuracy help optimize the demand planning process, while forecast versioning ensures transparency and traceability. This enables root-cause analysis of deviations and faster adaptation to market shifts.
With its analytical and reporting tools, FlexiEPM empowers organizations to continuously improve demand forecasting — enhancing accuracy, operational efficiency, and decision-making quality across the entire supply chain.
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