Would you like to improve your company's sales forecasting?
Are you struggling with complex, difficult to maintain
sales forecasting spreadsheets and manual processes?
Prophecy
will transform your sales forecasting!
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Produce defensible sales forecasts, more quickly,
more effectively and with none of the
tedious manual processes associated
with using spreadsheets for sales forecasting.
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Appropriate approach to sales forecasting: Prophecy
offers far more relevant functionality
for business sales forecasting than solutions which naively throw statistical algorithms at the task
but offer little else to help the
forecaster.
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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 are available over
a full hierarchy of products and customers.
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Comparisons with Budgets, Plans
and Previous Years. Prophecy
lets you analyse forecasts versus budgets and previous years at any level of product, customer and
time detail. Forecasts are actively integrated with business
plan monitoring, customer profitability analysis, sales analysis and
reporting etc..
Get more accurate forecasts
and more controlled delivery of the company plan via
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 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. Prophecy will help you
avoid making the same mistake twice!
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A versatile software tool. Empower your forecasters to productively forecast, plan and re-plan
sales, prepare budgets, forecast/reforecast, monitor, review and report.
All within a single, easy to use system. Take
time out of the forecasting process and minimise the
mundane, non-value added activities
previously associated with sales forecasting.
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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
distribution/collection processes of
sales forecasting spreadsheets.
Rapid implementation. Prophecy can be implemented very quickly - it is not a major IT
project!
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Proven software and approach to sales forecasting. Prophecy's approach to forecasting is based on many years of successful,
hands on, full time sales forecasting experience
in major companies, as well as the valuable feedback of many Prophecy
users in the UK and across the globe.
Download a demo system,
view our on-line product tour,
go direct to the 'Benefits and Features' page,
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Proven sales forecasting methodology...
Prophecy is especially suitable for
forecasting sales where:
- Short to medium term forecasting is
required for purchasing, production and inventory
as well as financial planning / managing delivery
of the sales plan against budgets.
- The market is volatile and hard to forecast.
Lots of promotional activity / competitive activity.
- The '80:20' rule applies - i.e. 80% of your business goes to 20%
of your customers. And, these are the customers which are hardest to
forecast because they are the ones who run big promotions etc. and where
competitor activity is most intense.
- The Major Account Managers or Marketeers are the people in your
organisation in the best position to forecast these customers.
- You want to provide non-technical business users, such as Major
Account Managers, with an easy to use tool to productively
forecast and plan their sales....
- ... whilst at the same time providing
management with a 'top down' review and analysis
process, possibly extended to revenue and profit
in the same system, with comparisons to
recent running rates, previous years and budgets
etc..
- Where a financial, as well as a volume
perspective is required. Where planning
for revenue and profit as well as getting
the volume forecast right, is a strategic goal.
Prophecy will allow you to do all these things, is competitively priced,
is easy to implement and and
is proven in practice.
The business case for Prophecy is compelling, based on features, fit
with difficult to forecast real-world markets, ease of use
and low purchase / implementation costs.
Easy to use...
- All our customers confirm that Prophecy is the easiest to use sales
forecasting software solution they've seen. If your users can
use Microsoft Office products then they will be comfortable using Prophecy.
- Please read our
sales forecasting case study to learn how one company implemented
Prophecy. Or read a collection of real
user quotes about the benefits obtained from Prophecy, made once
the system was up and running.
- You can assess Prophecy's ease of use and power right now.
Click this link
to view our zero-install, self-running on-line demos in your web browser.
Integrate forecasting,
business planning, tracking and reporting...
- Volume forecasting should be integrated with financial forecasting,
ongoing sales analysis and review versus plan, so that everyone is managing
to the same operational and financial goal.
- Prophecy lets you integrate volume demand forecasting with revenue
and profit contribution planning and monitoring. Track forecasts
versus Budgets and previous years within the same system for quantity,
weight, revenue, gross profit or any other measure you need. Encapsulate
the budget / plan / forecast / monitor / re-plan cycle within a single
system.
- Use your own range of business measures for selling prices, costs,
alternate unit measures such as weight or litres etc.. All these
'facts' are modelled in Prophecy over your full hierarchy of products
and customers.
- Forecast. Then compare sales to date and future forecasts
with previous years, budgets or targets using Prophecy's integrated
pivot table style reporting, analysis and forecast update screens.
At any combination of detail for products and customers.
Easy to implement
and deploy...
- Prophecy is an 'easy win '. It is focused on a high-profile,
specific business area, is a self-contained sales forecasting and budgeting
solution and is exceptionally easy to implement. Most organisations
will get a positive ROI from Prophecy within the first year.
- Load your historical actuals etc. via flexible 'learn by example'
imports from any ODBC/OLEDB source or via delimited text files.
No rekeying required!
- Prophecy runs on any Windows platform, including Vista and Windows
7. It fully supports multiple user read-write operations against
a single Prophecy database. It has no technical dependencies on
other databases or software, other than the ability to source historical
data from your core systems.
- However, if you prefer to store your Prophecy database in a Microsoft
SQL Server database instead of Prophecy's native database format then
that too is possible.
- Prophecy's granular security model allows by product, by customer,
by measure level security to be applied for each user.
Developed in the UK.
Used across the world...
- Prophecy is developed by
Data Perceptions, a privately owned UK company. In addition
to customers in the UK we have users within Europe, Asia and also in
Australia.
- Prophecy can be implemented quickly. We can provide consultancy
and training to help you optimise your implementation, either on-site
or via the internet. Typical implementation timescale is from
2 to a maximum of 10 days, including training, depending on the complexity
of your database, data sources etc.. Please contact Data Perceptions
if you would like to discuss this element, or any other aspect of Prophecy
further.
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