Production forecasting software that feeds a schedule you can run
A forecast is only useful if it turns into a plan the machines can deliver. ProductionPlanning.ai builds a weekly demand forecast per product from your order history, keeps it separate from firm orders, and schedules both against real capacity.
Forecasting software for manufacturing, kept simple
- Weekly forecast per product from your order history
- Moving average and seasonal patterns, visible and editable
- Manual overrides for known events: a big customer order, a promotion, a shutdown
- Forecast and firm orders shown separately, so you know what is sold and what is expected
- Forecast consumed by firm orders as they arrive, without double counting
Demand forecasting is included on the Plant plan and above.
From demand forecast to production schedule
Forecast quantities become planned orders for each week. Those planned orders go through the same finite capacity scheduler as firm orders, so you see whether next month's expected demand fits your machines while there is still time to add a shift or build stock ahead.
- Planned orders per product and week from the forecast
- Scheduled with finite capacity alongside firm orders
- Overloaded weeks and the bottleneck shown in advance
- Build ahead scenarios compared as plan versions
The weekly view by product is the master production schedule, and the check against machine hours is capacity planning.
What a forecast can and cannot do
No forecast knows about the order a new customer has not placed yet. What a good forecast does is show the normal shape of demand, so the plant is ready for it, and make the gap between expected and actual visible early. ProductionPlanning.ai shows forecast error per product every week, so you know which forecasts to trust and which to watch.
See next month's load before next month
Create your account on the Plant plan, import your order history, and schedule your forecast against real capacity.
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