Epicor now brings a suite of SaaS offerings to manufacturing and distribution leaders looking to proactively plan demand, balance tradeoffs, optimize stock levels, and drive more effective outcomes for their businesses.
Choose the Right Solution For You
Epicor Demand Planner is a consensus demand planning solution. You can create accurate forecasts of any level of your product hierarchy. The collaborative workbench enables forecast overrides to be imported, applied, and approved by authorized users driving the consensus plan. Forecast accuracy is measured at every level, helping ensure that the best possible forecast is delivered to the business at both the aggregate and item mix levels.
Epicor IP&O is an integrated set of native web applications, including Epicor Demand Planner, that enables a single, easy-to-use, scalable environment with field-proven inventory and forecast modeling that optimizes inventory stocking policy and improves forecast accuracy. You’ll move planning from spreadsheet-based functional silos to a collaborative platform enabling executives to shape policy while empowering inventory planners to make it so.
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Key Features
| Data Import/Export | |
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| API-based ERP integrations | |
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| File-based integrations | |
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| Data Capacity & Management | |
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| Number of time series supported | |
| Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Unit of measure conversions | |
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| Forecasts Methods and Automation | |
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| Automatic forecasting | |
| Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Broad range of statistical forecasting methods | |
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| "Best pick” model selection | |
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| Custom model specification | |
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| Trend dampening | |
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| Non-statistical methods (e.g., same as last year, average, same as last month, etc.) | |
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| Forecast Management Features | |
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| Configurable forecast horizons and historical start dates | |
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| Auto saving of overrides | |
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| Auto archiving of statistical forecast | |
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| Filtering and sorting | |
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| Overrides for Adding Judgement to Forecasts | |
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| Forecast overrides in table and graphically | |
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| Historical overrides in table and graphically | |
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| Override commenting with audit reports | |
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| Forecast Reporting and Accuracy | |
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| Numeric reports and graphic displays | |
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| Forecast vs. actuals | |
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| Forecast vs. forecasts | |
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| Forecast bias | |
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| Manage and track multiple forecasts (sales customer, statistical) | |
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| Multi-Level and Consensus Forecasting | |
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| Save multiple versions of the forecasting | |
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| Reviewing colleagues’ forecasts and make changes | |
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| Multi-level forecasting (by family, region, group, etc.) | |
| Fully Customizable Hierarchies | Fully Customizable Hierarchies |
| Customer level forecasting | |
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| Pivotable hierarchies (change roll ups on the fly) | |
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| Time fences | |
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| Project aggregation (combines projects into a master project) | |
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| Import external forecasts from Excel | |
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| Advanced Data Management | |
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| Product supersession (link old items to new) | |
| Customizable | Customizable |
| Combine low volume customers and other time-series into "all other" category | |
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| Combine demand from multiple locations to the preferred location | |
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| Import and display future sales orders | |
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| Data transformations | |
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| Custom UOM conversions | |
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| Demand history composition | |
| Customizable | Customizable |
| Inventory Management and Optimization | |
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| Safety stock, reorder points, order quantity, and min/max recommendations | |
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| Optimization logic that prescribes most profitable stocking policies | |
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| “What If ” scenarios that predict impact of changes to service levels, lead time, days of supply, and order quantities | |
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| Service level and days of supply targeting | |
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| Key performance predictions of shortage costs, ordering costs, holding costs, and inventory value | |
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| Multi-echelon planning (hub and spoke planning) | |
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| Lead time analysis | |
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| Projected inventory on hand and sawtooth reporting | |
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| Supply planning and order management | |
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| KPI Reporting | |
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| Current and historical on hand inventory levels and turns | |
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| Historical service levels, fill rates, out of stocks, and time-to-ship | |
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| Supplier and product lead times | |
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| Dashboards | |
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| Custom reporting | |
| Requires BI Studio Add-On | Requires BI Studio Add-On |