Oracle Demand Management

Sense demand to improve visibility

Manage multiple demand signals

Assimilate internal, customer, and marketing signals to create a holistic view of demand.

Dynamically segment demand

Use business rules to assign groups of items and locations to segments that share common demand characteristics.

Analyze demand

Monitor business KPIs to detect changes in market conditions and assess the impact.

Capture business insights

Drive accountability by documenting plan discussions, decisions, and assumptions.

Predict demand to manage variability

Generate accurate forecasts

Improve forecast accuracy by evaluating baseline, trend, seasonality, and causal forecast components by segment.

Enhance planning with built-in intelligence

Improve plan accuracy with built-in machine learning that evaluates intermittency, collinearity, anomalies, level shifts, price changes, holidays, and events.

Create a robust demand plan

Enhance your baseline plan by adjusting your forecast to incorporate business knowledge and address exceptions.

Forecast configure-to-order products

Improve customer service by simulating the impact of changes to model forecasts and calculate attach rates.

Measure and track forecast accuracy

Monitor and diagnose the root causes of forecast errors and track improvements by demand segment.

Intelligently shape demand to achieve business objectives

Forecast new products

Manage new product launches by learning from similar products. Add new channels, customers, and geographies.

Simulate forecast scenarios

Make more informed decisions by simulating and comparing multiple forecast scenarios.

Collaborate to synchronize demand plans

Increase responsiveness and improve availability by collaborating with cross-functional teams on planning demand and supply.

Replenish to meet demand-drive inventory targets

Tailor inventory policy planning to demand segments

Establish inventory policy thresholds for groups of item locations that have similar replenishment requirements.

Calculate demand-driven replenishments

Generate the time-phased replenishment quantities needed to keep supply within inventory thresholds.

Simulate replenishment results

Select and compare the effect of different inventory policy parameters to enhance performance.

Execute the plan

Release replenishment orders for execution based on the latest demand, supply, and policy settings.