Features
Demand Management
NetSuite’s Demand Planning module offers several ways to calculate and predict demand based on historical demand, open opportunities and / or manually entered or imported sales forecasts. Whether you want the system to review monthly or weekly demand and generate forecasts using moving average, linear regression or seasonal average calculations you will have the ability to review and edit the forecasted demand before proceeding to supply planning. Optionally you can have the system create demand based on sales forecasts.
Key Capabilities:
- Analyse Historical Demand
- Incorporate Sales Forecasts
- Update by CSV Import or web services
Supply Management
Once demand trends have been evaluated and the plan created, the supply planning process kicks in to balance demand and supply by generating purchase, work and transfer orders based on the many settings found on the item record. Period of Supply, Lot for Lot and Fixed are amongst the methods used to determine the number and size of the orders generated, while also looking at consumption, time fence and reschedule in / out parameters.
Key Capabilities
- Planned vs Actual Orders
- Multi-Location Supply Planning
- Vendor Management
