Demand forecasting for chemicals.
Forecast by product, grade and customer account. Contract volumes are steady, and spot orders arrive in lumps.
The app, in your trade's words.
This demo carries 190 customer accounts and 55 months of invented history.
What the pack sets.
- Who plans
- Supply chain planner
- Contract type
- Contract, Spot
- Sales tree
- Region, State, Cluster and Customer account
- Supply tree
- Plant and Tank farm
- Catalogue
- Grades and packs in six families, such as Caustic soda lye, 48%, Sulphuric acid, 98%, Toluene
- Units
- MT and KL
- Calendar
- Seasons fixed to the month.
- Review steps
- Key account manager, then Regional sales head, then Supply chain planner
- Output
- Campaign plan
What is hard here.
- The plan follows the customer, not the region. One customer's shutdown is a larger event than any season.
- Tonnes and kilolitres differ by density, and density differs by product.
- Spot orders are lumpy by nature.
Try this in the demo.
- Switch the unit from tonnes to kilolitres.
- Compare Contract with Spot.
- Read Accuracy by level. It is weaker here than in other packs, and the app says so.