Prophecy
is a purpose-built
and proven sales forecasting solution aimed at helping business managers
produce
better, more defensible sales forecasts.
It is used
by companies world-wide to forecast sales and monitor / analyse
progress versus budgets.
It will help you get away from complex, difficult to maintain spreadsheets and home-grown forecasting solutions.
Benefits:
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Produce intelligent sales forecasts, more quickly, more effectively and with none of the tedious manual processes associated with using spreadsheets for the forecasting of demand.
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Rapid implementation. Prophecy can be implemented very quickly - it is not a major IT project! Data can be sourced from any ODBC/OLEDB data source or from flat files.
Designed specifically for business forecasting. Prophecy is currently in use in diverse industries worldwide ranging from chilled desserts, confectionary, pet foods, breakfast cereals, white goods, personal care / beauty and DIY.
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Forecast revenue and profit as well as quantities. Prophecy
allows forecasts to be made not just for volume, but also for
selling prices, cost of goods etc.. All these measures update in real
time and are available over the full hierarchy of products and customers.
Instantly understand the impact of volume changes on the revenue and
profit plan. Compare them to Budgets and previous years, all
within Prophecy's powerful (combined) forecasting and reporting
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Appropriate and proven methodology for forecasting of demand: Prophecy
offers far more relevant functionality
for business sales forecasting than solutions that
naively throw statistical algorithms at the task, are hard to
understand and
offer few alternative forecaster aids. (Statisticians
typically state that 2 years history is the
absolute minimum with which a statistical forecast can be
calculated. Consider how much your business has changed over the last 2
years and whether that history represents a valid input into a future
forecast.) Prophecy distils many years of professional
business sales forecasting experience into a proven, powerful and
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Team forecasting. Prophecy
is naturally multi-user and was designed from the ground
upwards to allow multiple forecasters to simultaneously forecast their
customers or products without the need for tedious manual consolidations
or the distribution / collection / consolidation processes
associated with sales
forecasting spreadsheets. Workflow management (i.e. forecast,
review, reforecast etc) is built in, enabling efficient coordination
of the sales forecast process. Forecast changes from multiple
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Compare the Sales Forecast with Budgets, Plans and Previous Years. Prophecy
helps you analyse forecasts versus budget and previous years
at any level of product, customer and time detail, for revenue and profit
as well as volumes. That way demand forecasting is actively integrated
into business plan monitoring and delivery. Understand customer
profitability, sales analysis and reporting etc.. Combine more
accurate forecasting of demand and more controlled delivery
of the company plan using Prophecy
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Puts forecasters and reviewers in control. Forecasters and managers will be able to identify and understand trends as soon as they start developing, spot inaccurate sales forecasts as they are entered and instantly quantify the financial impact of forecast changes at any level of product and customer detail on the overall sales plan.
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Accuracy analysis. Single-click sales forecasting accuracy analysis will help forecasters identify and learn from mistakes earlier.
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