Meeting customer demand while keeping inventory costs manageable has never been harder. Today’s supply chains are more volatile, customer expectations higher, and demand patterns less predictable. With Epicor IP&O’s powerful forecasting capabilities, you can take the guesswork out of demand planning.
Epicor IP&O empowers enterprises to automate inventory forecasting and identify the right policies to improve service levels and minimize excess stock. With the help of IP&O, you can accurately gauge complex demand scenarios and test proposed policies, empowering you to create profit-maximizing stocking policies.
Benefits
Epicor IP&O addresses all types of demand including seasonal, trending, intermittent, and cyclical patterns and selects the right technique automatically.
IP&O generates thousands of realistic demand and lead time simulations for each item to reflect real-life uncertainties. It stress-tests current and proposed policies yielding accurate predictions of future costs, inventory value, and service levels that enable you to make fact-based inventory policy decisions.
IP&O’s patented bootstrapping method for intermittent demand has been added to the automatic forecast selection along multiple proprietary enhancements.
To maximize the functionality and efficiency of Epicor IP&O, it integrates seamlessly with these products out of the box.