Demand, Sales and Workload Forecasting Software

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Forecasting TCO

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) includes the direct and indirect costs common costs associated to a software. Lokad through its on demand pricing and its hosted design aims to be order of magnitude cheaper (considering the TCO) than traditional data mining tools.

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Business Benefits of Forecasting

Improper business planning leads to massive cost overheads

Inventory optimization

Too much inventory
  • your working capital gets too large.
  • your stocks get depreciated quickly.
  • no room left to store the inventory.

Not enough safety stocks
  • sales opportunities are lost.
  • customer satisfaction drops.
  • opportunities for the competition.

Get just enough inventory through sales forecasting

Capacity utilization and staff scheduling

Too much capacity/staff
  • employees stay idle and feel useless.
  • money is wasted paying too much staff.
  • capacity is used inefficiently

Too few staff
  • customer and employee satisfaction drops.
  • cost increases.
  • business opportunities are lost.

Get just enough staff through demand forecasting

Complexity and time investment

Manual forecasting
  • high planning complexity
  • significant time investment
  • "specialists" with lot of experience needed

Lokad forecasting
  • automatic "one click" forecasts
  • increased forecast accuracy in many cases
  • reduced planning complexity and time

Reduce complexity and time investment with "one-click" forecasts