Solution: i2 Demand Manager

Reduce inventory requirements, increase customer service, and improve sales and profitability

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i2 Demand Manager

i2 Demand Manager™ can provide a comprehensive closed-loop approach for the development of accurate forecasts that sense and adapt to changing trends, performance management, and demand-influencing price and promotional activities. By improving these processes, companies can reduce inventory, improve customer service, and increase sales and profitability.

“Because we are trying to understand our global business for the next 5–10 years, we need to understand what all of our locations are doing. With Demand Manager, we now have all of our information in one place, which means we can better understand the market in which we operate.”

Juanita Quintana
Logistics Optimization Director

The key to effective demand management relies as much on human judgment and communication as it does on pure quantitatively based forecasting algorithms. To address this need, i2 has developed the following set of role-based solution workflows that combine demand management best practices with the latest in software technology.

Solution Capabilities

Adaptive forecasting. i2 Demand Manager enables a sophisticated micro-segmentation of demand patterns and attributes using industry-specific libraries to continuously optimize and adapt forecasting models with changing market trends.
Event-based planning with real-time data availability. To ensure that the demand plan is in sync with a fast-changing, highly variable demand signal, planners can constantly monitor the current demand plan for changes against key demand indicators and quickly make appropriate adjustments.
Lifecycle forecasting. i2 Demand Manager has strong built-in capabilities to support lifecycle forecasting. With short product lifecycles, the ability to track the actual demand against forecast and make rapid course corrections is extremely important.
Collaborative forecasting. Through targeted role-based views into the demand management process, i2 Demand Manager synchronizes the demand plans among all the stakeholders by dynamically linking data between different views.

i2’s Differentiation

Event-Based Planning with Real-Time Data Availability
Develop Tailored and Adaptive Forecasts Based on Unique Business Requirements
Apply Market Intelligence to Improve the Forecast Accuracy
Demand-Supply Matching

Benefits

With its advanced statistical forecasting and quantitative analytics, i2 Demand Manager can improve forecasting accuracy and consumer demand visibility. The solution can enable companies to constantly monitor and dynamically adjust their plans accordingly to increase customer satisfaction while minimizing inventory-carrying costs.

By allowing planners to conduct product lifecycle forecasting, i2 Demand Manager can increase inventory turns. The solution can apply market intelligence to improve the forecast accuracy and ensure a faster response to changes in the demand signal. The business improvements enabled by i2 Demand Manager can result in increased sales and profitability.