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Forecast Pro Unlimited
Forecast Pro Unlimited is designed for larger-scale
forecasting jobs, collaborative forecasting, working with complex
hierarchies, maintaining multiple forecast overrides, documenting your
forecasting sessions and integrating with other systems. The all-new
Forecast Pro Unlimited Version 6 is a comprehensive state-of-the-art, flexible forecasting system that is extremely powerful yet surprisingly affordable.
With
Forecast Pro Unlimited, forecasting thousands of SKU's is as easy as
selecting a data file and clicking the forecast icon. With a few
additional clicks of the mouse, you can graph the results, view
forecast reports, make judgmental overrides and save the results.
Create Accurate Forecasts Automatically
Forecast Pro Unlimited’s Expert
Selection mode analyzes each item and selects the appropriate
forecasting method automatically. If you prefer to specify the
forecasting approach, Forecast Pro Unlimited provides a complete range
of forecasting methods and all the diagnostic tools you need.
Add Your Judgment and Collaborate With Others
Incorporating business
knowledge is often essential to establish the final forecast. Forecast
Pro Unlimited's override facility allows you to adjust the statistical
forecasts in a spreadsheet-like display which shows both the historical
data and forecasted values. You can adjust single points, ranges or
totals, using percentages, increments or by simply entering new values.
If you've defined a multiple-level hierarchy, adjusting a value at any
given level will automatically adjust all appropriate levels.
Working with colleagues can also improve the forecasting process. Using
up to ten customizable override rows and handy comment fields, you can
easily collaborate with your colleagues and document your changes to
foster a truly collaborative forecasting process.
Integrate Smoothly with Other Systems
Integrating Forecast Pro Unlimited with your
existing software systems is very straightforward. You can import data
in a variety of flexible, easy-to-create formats including Excel and
Lotus spreadsheets, text files and ODBC. You can also customize the
content and format of the output. Whether you need a flat file to feed
your ERP system, a spreadsheet for a colleague or a
presentation-quality report to pass around the board room, Forecast Pro
Unlimited's flexibility makes it simple to get the information you
need.
Formalize Your Forecasting Process
Most forecasts need to be updated on a regular basis
(often weekly or monthly). Forecast Pro Unlimited allows you to save
and restore your forecasting sessions including the forecasting models
used, the forecast overrides and their associated comments, and all of
your reporting options. Returning to your forecasting session at a
later date to continue your work, updating your forecasts when new data
become available and sharing your work with colleagues—it's all a
breeze with Forecast Pro Unlimited.
Forecast Pro Unlimited lays a solid foundation for a well-defined forecasting process by providing:
- a consistent, objective approach to analyzing historical data;
- documented visibility into forecast adjustments; and
- a sustainable forecasting system that can be easily transferred to new team members.
Forecast Pro Unlimited Collaborator licenses
Forecast Pro Unlimited Collaborator licenses, provide an
easy and affordable way to collaborate with colleagues.
Offered at a fraction of the cost of Forecast Pro Unlimited Forecaster
licenses, Collaborator licenses allows others to view your
forecasts—including graphs and reports—add overrides and comments, and
save the results.
Forecast PRO TRAC
Forecast Pro TRAC is the
newest member of the Forecast Pro software family and our most
comprehensive product yet. TRAC is the perfect solution for a broad
range of business forecasting needs including demand forecasting, team
forecasting or forecasting and reporting in support of your
organization’s S&OP process.
Built on a Solid Proven Foundation
Forecast Pro TRAC
is built on the Forecast Pro Unlimited framework and combines all of
the forecasting, graphing, reporting and adjustment capabilities found
in Forecast Pro Unlimited with the advanced data visualization and
analytic tools you need to execute a complete world-class forecasting
process.
This Web page highlights the features in Forecast Pro TRAC that are NOT included in Forecast Pro Unlimited. Specifically:
- Multiple Units of Measure
- “Shuffling” (on-the-fly hierarchy changes)
- Exception Reporting
- Accuracy Tracking
- Team Forecasting
View your forecasts any way you wish
Forecast Pro TRAC
allows you to view your data and forecasts in any units of measure you
wish. A simple drop-down menu lets you instantly switch among those
units of measure that are important to your business—such as dollars,
units sold or pallets.
Rearrange your hierarchies.
With Forecast Pro TRAC’s powerful “shuffling”
capability, you can rearrange hierarchies on the fly with just a couple
of clicks. Need to generate a report showing product-level forecasts
broken out by customer and then create another report showing
customer-level forecasts broken out by product? No problem!
Focus on the items that need your attention and have the greatest impact.
With Forecast Pro TRAC’s flexible exception
reporting, you can automatically flag exceptions, saving you from
having to manually review a long list of items—no one likes the feeling
of searching for a needle in a haystack! The reports are easily
customizable to reflect different performance metrics—such as forecast
vs. history or whether a current forecast falls outside a pre-defined
range—and give you a quick way to identify potential problem areas.
Monitor your forecasting performance for continuous improvement.
Forecast Pro TRAC maintains an archive of your previous forecasts (both
statistically-generated and adjusted forecasts) so that you can compare
and contrast previous forecasts to what actually happened. With just a
quick glance at TRAC’s “waterfall” reports you can zero in on what’s
working and what isn’t.
Consolidate your team’s forecasts
Forecast Pro TRAC allows you to break large
forecasting projects into smaller pieces that can be worked on
separately and then reassembled into consolidated forecasts. For
example, if three demand planners are responsible for forecasting three
different geographical territories, they can work on their forecasts
separately; after they’re done, their consolidated forecast can be
viewed and further manipulated.
Forecast Pro TRAC Collaborator licenses
Forecast Pro TRAC Collaborator licenses, provide an
easy and affordable way to collaborate with colleagues.
Offered at a fraction of the cost of Forecast Pro TRAC Forecaster
licenses, Collaborator licenses allows others to view your
forecasts—including graphs and reports—add overrides and comments, and
save the results.
Forecast Pro XE
Create Accurate Forecasts Quickly and Easily
Forecast Pro XE is a
desktop analysis tool designed to satisfy both basic and advanced
forecasting needs. Using Forecast Pro XE’s Expert Selection mode, you
can automatically create accurate forecasts for up to 100 items (such
as products or SKUs) with just a couple clicks of the mouse. If you
prefer to specify the forecasting approach, Forecast Pro XE provides a
full range of menu-driven custom modeling options and detailed
diagnostic displays to support even the most sophisticated analysis.
And you can do much more with Forecast Pro XE, including adding your
business knowledge, creating dazzling presentations and working with
your existing data.
Add Your Business Knowledge
Forecast Pro XE lets you adjust your
forecasts on a graph or in a spreadsheet-like display—in either view,
you see both the historical data and forecasted values, allowing you to
easily compare patterns within the data. You can adjust single points,
ranges or totals, using percentages, increments or by simply entering
new values. If you’ve defined a multiple-level hierarchy, adjusting a
value at any given level will automatically adjust all appropriate
levels.
Make Convincing Presentations
With Forecast Pro XE, you
can create dazzling, presentation-quality reports in seconds. Four
professionally-designed standardized report formats are included as
well as a custom reporting option for maximum flexibility. You can
graph your results on a time series or year-over-year basis, choose
from several eye-catching formats including 3-D lines and 3-D columns,
and save your reports directly to Excel.
Work With Your Existing Data
Forecast Pro XE imports data in a variety of
flexible, easy-to-create formats including Excel and Lotus
spreadsheets, text files and ODBC. These flexible formats allow you to
easily import and export data from virtually any source. There is also
an on-line editor to enter your data directly, or to modify and amend
files.
Diagnose Your Models
Forecast Pro XE provides a standardized set of
diagnostic screens to help you compare and evaluate models. You get
graphs of the residuals and the error autocorrelation function, grid
displays of the correlation matrix and covariance matrix, as well as
key numeric statistics: Adjusted R-Square, MAPE, Sample Size, Mean,
Schwartz BIC, Ljung-Box, RMSE, Standard Deviation, MAD, R-Square and
Standard Forecast Error.
Evaluate Alternative Forecasts
If you define a holdout sample, Forecast Pro XE will
automatically generate out-of-sample MAPE, MAD and GMRAE statistics to
measure forecast performance. This handy feature allows you to quickly
evaluate different models and answer questions like "How accurate would
my forecasts have been had I used Forecast Pro XE last year?"
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