Ramp Up Your Demand Forecasting Accuracy With Prophecy!

Prophecy™ is a proven, easy to use Windows solution for demand forecasting and analysis Combine class-leading statistical and machine learning automatic and expert mode sales forecasting with forecaster event knowledge and judgement, within in powerful, 'pivot-table' forecast editor/reporter and analytics environment Instantly understand the financial impact of your forecasts with real-time expansions to revenue, margin, kgs etc , over hierarchies of products and customers, for multiple, concurrent forecasters Minimise training costs with Prophecy's Microsoft Office style interface

How will it help?

Capture your forecasters’ business knowledge and foresight Combine it with leading-edge statistical forecasts Extend to revenue and profit in real time, over hierarchies of products and customers

Built for sharing across business functions

One set of numbers to power your company's vision of the future! Forecast, analyse and report on demand forecasts versus previous year, budgets, targets and what-if scenarios Identify and react to exceptions and trends earlier Forecast, analyse, review, extract, monitor and control within a single, easy to use solution Optional Trade Promotions Planning module *Prophecy is a powerful, multi-user forecasting system aimed at helping real-world business people produce defensible sales forecasts. It allows them to forecast from Volumes through to Profit over hierarchies of products and customers. It has a finely granulated security model allowing multiple users to securely update the forecasts for their customers and products. Measures can also be protected or unprotected for specified groups of users - e.g. Budgets.

over hierarchies of products and customers Forecast, review, measure forecast accuracy for volumes, revenues, profit etc at any level of product and customer

Compare versus recent running rates, previous years, budgets etc instantly within Prophecy

with a few clicks Supports standard forecast accuracy measures Analyse any combination of product and customer, any measure, any horizon Learn from forecast errors, earlier Prophecy's forecasting accuracy reports provide both the detail and the summary level accuracy statistics

Choose a purpose built demand forecasting solution to increase user productivity / reduce errors versus Excel demand forecasting solutions Spot mistakes or trends earlier Eliminate all manual data loading to focus on activities that directly improve forecasting accuracy Produce defensible forecasts, quickly and effectively

Easy to use, but with all the functionality needed for successful demand forecasting

Forecast with the right methodology

Use Prophecy™ if you're forecasting with:

• Frequent and highly variable promotional activity
• Active competitors, with equally frequent and variable promotional activity
• Promotions which are (intentionally) different each time
• Promotions which occur at different times each year
• Major customers represent a high proportion of total sales

Prophecy™ helps forecasters interpret and understand the factors that statistical algorithms struggle with It helps the forecaster analyse the data in a variety of intuitive, graphical and insightful ways, detecting forecasting errors early

Prophecy also features an optional Trade Promotion Planning module, which allows itemised promotions to be planned, modelled, approved and evaluated

Aimed at the right users

Prophecy™ is for front-line business demand forecasters It helps them productively apply their specialised knowledge and judgement to the demand forecasts All within an easy-to-use, Excel type experience However, Prophecy™ goes way beyond Excel in its specialist statistical forecasting, analytic and reporting features

Prophecy™ delivers a 'live' view of detailed volume forecasts expanded through revenue, profit and any other measures you define (such as kgs, litres etc ) It consolidates all measures in real time over multi-level hierarchies of products and customers

The forecasted measures in your Prophecy™ system are completely customisable Start with volume, extend to revenue and margin, compare with budgets, plans, other versions

Integrate demand forecasting into core processes

Prophecy™ offers you much more than just volume demand forecasting

Standard costs and selling prices are pre-imported into the database (or prices and discounts can be modelled manually)

The revenue and profit impact of volume and pricing changes are instantly rolled up, in real time, over a complete hierarchy of products and customers

Prophecy fully supports 'forecast / review / re-forecast / publish' workflow

Analyse and risk-assess forecasts within Prophecy™, at any hierarchy level for volume, revenue, profit or any other forecasted measure

Track forecast vs. Plan, Last Year, Last Version...

Prophecy™ delivers control, visibility, tracking and sharing of the demand forecast Escape the 'many versions of the truth', bloat and data fragmentation issues associated with Excel demand forecasting spreadsheets

Forecast, analyse, compare with budgets, prior years or previous forecasts - for volume, revenue, profit or any other measure All within Prophecy's easy to use, multi-dimensional views and graphs

Capture and audit every forecast change in the Prophecy Tracking database - date, time, who made the change etc

Forecast accuracy analysis is important because: