Use historical data, seasonal fluctuations and common sense to forecast demand.
If you are not psychic the forecasting module uses historical sales data, mathematical calculations and human intuition to forecast future inventory requirements and allows adjustments for seasonal fluctuations, thus ensuring that forecasting matches the natural curve of your business demand. You can make manual adjustments for unusual events or unseasonal demand so you’re always on-track.
This is an easy to manage process, as once you have established your criteria the forecast is automatically generated for you. Forecasts can be used to feed into the MRP module’s processes, providing a base to build the material requirements planning on.
Integration with other Greentree modules:
Greentree ’s modular system builds upon and integrates with all other modules to ensure that every drop of business intelligence is extracted from every transaction right across the business – nothing goes to waste. This translates into aggregated business value and you need to only purchase modules that perfectly suit your business.
All aspects of the MRP and forecasting modules are fully integrated to the inventory, purchase orders, bill of materials/factory orders and general ledger modules. This provides an up-to-date and accurate picture of inventory balances, purchases and movements as they happen and how these affect the financial side of the business.
Key features:
- Four demand generation options
- Forecast and MRP by inventory trees
- Can also be used by purchasing and distribution-only businesses
- System generated suggested action messages
- System generated purchase and factory orders
- Simple to use MRP review form
- Drill down to analyse source requirement
- Maintain multiple forecasts
- Process multiple MRP runs
- Ability to flag items as critical
- Option to include or exclude hold and do not commit orders
- Kitset requirements included in the generation process
- Visual manufacturing planning board with export to Excel
- Powerful reporting