Netstock IBP Forecasting, Inventory & Capacity Planning

Demand Planning & Forecasting

Netstock Integrated Business Planning (IBP) utilizes a world class statistical forecasting engine and allows you to forecast by customer, channel, region, or any other dimension. Statistical methods include exponential smoothing, ARIMA, Croston's Intermittent, and various other level, trended, and seasonal methods. Netstock IBP supports collaboration, monetizing and forecasting in alternative measures, scenario planning and collaboration.

Inventory Planning & Optimization

Netstock IBP lets you “what-if” alternative supply policies for a single item, or thousands of items in one keystroke. For each scenario, you can immediately view the projected production requirements, min, max, and average inventories – in units or cost, and at any level of aggregation. As part of the simulation, you can segment products into different groups according to intermittency, forecastability, ABC (on cost or volume), and any other dimensions that are useful to your business. It also creates complete, time-phased inventory plans. You can plan inventory movements through complex multi-tiered distribution channels, and it has fully support for formulations and bills of material (multi-level MRP). And, for improved use of production and storage capacity, Netstock IBP has full capabilities for finite capacity planning, strategic inventory builds and seasonal production loading.

Finite Capacity Planning & S&OP

The optional Finite Capacity planning module optimizes the assignment of production to resources and periods of time, level loading and minimizing overall cost.. The complete solution offers dashboard views for Finance, Sales, Production, Logistics and General Management to support advanced S&OP/IBP processes.