Demand Forecasting easy!

S&OP and SAP IBP

Service Level

Safety Stock setup

DEMAND & SUPPLY PLANNING

We can help if you are…

Planning on implementing SAP IBP, Statistical forecasting, selling through distributors or agents or you intend to prevent lost sales from stock outages, are understaffed or resources-constrained.

GOOD PRACTICE ACCELERATOR

Implementing and deploying a best in class model builds on capabilities and requires efficient tools, good practices, performance tracking and much more. We’ll help you benchmark your business first (e.g. we estimate the value between the "TO-BE” level of inventory vs. the “AS-IS”).

S&OP, SAP IBP

We operate as trainer for SAP Education to ensure the full SAP IBP courses in Europe. During this course, we also share our implementation experiences on SAP SCM Solutions as well as our Supply Chain process knowledge.

Mitigate risks & focus on your capabilities

☆ Implementing and deploying best in class model ☆

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DEMAND PLANNING FUNDAMENTALS

Planner role in the organization, Filtering of abnormal demand, Record assumptions, Seasonality, Top-down vs. Bottom up, Statistical models
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POC (Proof Of Concept)

For a clear understanding of the way forward, it helps you define your future IS/IT roadmap. If you plan to adopt SAP IBP for your S&OP, Demand, Inventory or Supply planning, a POC helps you reduce the solution design phase.
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FUNCTION CENTRALIZATION

New organizational structure brings constraints and requirements. Head office responsibilities, subsidiary roles, definition of functions, processes and SOX compliance mapping are necessary prerequisites steps.

Quick win's

☆ Combining spreadsheet flexibility with professional planning ☆

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STATISTICAL FORECASTING

We’ll help remove outliers

It takes up to 5 calendar days to Go-Live with the Sales Forecast module and training is usually delivered in as little as six hours.
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MATERIAL MANAGEMENT

Statistical Safety Stock

Setup a quantity of products to keep in stock at all time to implement targeted service level to your customers.
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REPLENISHMENT

Time Phased Planning

Designed to help you orchestrate the flow of orders and its visibility. Capture actual orders, orders in inventories, lead times to delivery and we provide you with time-phases order plan.

Testimonials

The purpose of these statements is to highlight a few key features.

“ We’ve implemented Fastprod in parallel run over 6 months to test the benefits of cleaning actual historical data points in monthly buckets vs. weekly buckets. ”

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Function: Supply Chain ; Role: Demand Planning ; Level: ManagerSource: User "Marie Tim"

“ I wanted to connect with Fastprod consultants has they provides functional expertise, value chain basics process and methods using "Beer Game-like" simulation. ”

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Function: Supply Chain ; Role: Supply Planning ; Level: ManagerSource: User "Thierry Golo"

“ I was looking for a correct, comprehensive safety-stock calculation, not just a spreadsheet. ”

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Function: Supply Chain ; Role: Demand & Supply Planning ; Level: PlannerSource: User "Bowie Kent"

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Planning tools for everyone, bringing value to all.

Deployed by companies ranging from 50 million to 4 billion US$ (product range from 50 items to 20’000 for up to 30 warehouses).

Sales target alignment

Top down, bottom up, sales territory forecast, customer forecast, many ways to plan, one target. e.g.allow your sales managers and representatives to see key information on events, customers sales rate, PO status or inventories availability

Sales assumptions

Upscale from standard excel features and facilitate demand data accessibility.

Exception management

Change in customer demand for the top A items is key, tracking of lost sales and sharing exceptions with your team or business partners is recognized as a good management practice.

Statistical forecasting

Corridor of demand can be statistically estimated and is a proven practice facilitating sales rep. target management as well as an effective tool for sales completion tracking.

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Contact Info

  • Lausanne, Switzerland
  • +41 79 884 7325
  • contact@fastprod.com