Why Farsight

A Demand Forecasting solution for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management that works for you

We believe Demand Forecasting must be able to not only produce accurate forecasts, but also give you the tools to manage the unexpected.

To achieve this, it must be able to be configured differently for different environments.

We enable you to:

  • Generate forecasts at a higher level, e.g. site, when planning requires forecasts at a more detailed level, e.g. site & warehouse
  • Generate forecasts in larger time buckets, e.g. months, when planning needs them in smaller buckets, e.g. weeks
  • Generate forecasts using different forecasting formulas for different items
  • Group some customers differently from other customers to produce accurate forecasts
  • Group customers differently for different items.

You can also:

  • Manually enter new forecasts for items if you wish
  • Manually adjust existing forecasts at detailed or summary level, and lock the adjusted forecasts
  • Adjust future forecasts to allow for promotions or large projects and then automatically extract the extra sales from historical demand so they don’t distort later forecasts
  • Enable users to maintain forecasts offline because their job requires them to be mobile
  • Forecast new items based on demand from existing items
  • Measure forecast accuracy and see how it affects stock levels and customer service levels
  • Perform ‘what-if’ forecasting to see the effect on storage and production capacity.

Our Advanced Demand Forecasting product is the only Demand Forecasting solution that provides this functionality in a module that’s fully integrated with Dynamics 365 for Supply Chain Management.  All other products, including Microsoft Demand Planning, duplicate data in a separate database and require it to be interfaced with D365 SCM’s database.