Key Customer Production Forecasts

Introduction

DCS can help you improve profitability by helping you receive clear and accurate forecasts. This improvement helps lower inventory costs, reduce operating costs, and eliminate "surprises" by keeping you informed of upcoming inventory requirements.

Overview

We have worked with several companies to improve their businesses. Here's how it's done. Most start with a Forecast Team - the CFO, the IS manager, the sales manager, the production manager, and the customer service manager. The goal - work with the Top 10 customers to receive a clear, accurate and timely forecast. The challenge - each customer is somewhat unique, so you'll have to receive their forecast in the form they prefer to send. Only over time can you move to standardized formats such as EDI. Do not propose to management a one flavor software solution.

The technical challenge is twofold: To provide an alert about quantity changes in distant weeks and to provide forecast histories to counter chargebacks.

Conclusion

Here's how we can help you: DCS should be a member of the team, to show you how others have accomplished similar tasks. We know customers are reluctant to issue forecasts, that it takes them extra work, and that maybe they don't know how to do them properly. We can provide a checklist and plan, then trouble shooting, documentation, professional training, and more. All large companies create forecasts, the challenge is to obtain them