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ForecastPRO
Objective
To provide fast, easy and accurate
forecasting of sales, revenues, demand for service or any other
important variable in order to allow better decision making.
The Value of ForecastPRO
for SYSPRO
- Automatically provides optimum
models, providing the best available methodology without
sacrificing simplicity or ease of use
- Easily enter, graph, save and print
reports for up to thousands of items
- Provides proper forecasting tools
that benefit planning, cut inventory costs and serve to decrease
stockouts
- Instantly provides graphing and
report generation to illustrate forecasts, historic data,
confidence limits and safety stocks
- Operations are optimized to create
effective, informative reports, regardless of the amount of input,
from small to large scale forecasting jobs
- Contains a standardized set of
diagnostic screens that help to compare and evaluate models
- Graphs residuals and error
autocorrelation as well as key numeric statistics
Matching SYSPRO to Your Business
- Forecast Pro for SYSPRO imports data
in a variety of flexible, easy to create formats
- Gives results in clear,
understandable business terms, eliminating the need for
specialized training or a background in statistics
- Select a forecast model of choice
and set the parameters or allow Forecast Pro to do so
automatically
- Built-in expert system analyzes
data, selects the appropriate forecasting technique, builds the
model and calculates the forecast required in one of five
different classes of models:
-- Simple Methods for very short
data or extremely volatile data
sets, including moving average models
-- Curve Fitting for a quick identification of the general form of
a
data curve, i.e., straight line, quadratic,
exponential and
growth (s-curve)
-- Low Volume models for accommodation of low volume or
sparse data
-- Exponential Smoothing with 12 different smoothing models to
accommodate a wide range of data characteristics
-- Box-Jenkins for stable data sets which can be built completely
automatically or interactively, using a full range of
screen-oriented diagnostics
- The interface provides an easy and
efficient method to extract sales data from SYSPRO for use by
Forecast Pro, allowing data to be extracted by different criteria
and for different periods
- Through the interface, forecasts can
optionally be used to update MRP forecasts
- Adjusts forecasts graphically or in
a spreadsheet-like display
- Adjusts single points, ranges or
totals, using percentages, increments, or by entering new values
- Automatically adjusts all
appropriate levels of a multiple level hierarchy when a value at
any given level is changed
- Forecast Pro provides phone, fax and
email technical support in addition to SYSPRO’s support network
Integration
- Integrates with SYSPRO and runs on
Windows 95, 98, 2000, and NT operating systems
- Forecast Pro for SYSPRO integrates
with the Inventory Control and Requirements Planning modules
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