Solutions

Accurately Predict Demand in Volatile Markets

What if you could accurately predict demand in a way that reflects what is actually happening with your customers, suppliers and the market as a whole? What if you could navigate volatile markets with a supply chain that could sense market shifts and react in time to ensure on-shelf availability and profitable growth?

There are many kinds of demand signals available to manufacturers to help better determine what customers will order – inventory positions, which products are selling well, the time of year, what is popular at different retailers, etc. Terra Technology will take you there with a new class of applications that use modern mathematics to convert this plethora of daily demand signals into accurate forecasts and tangible business benefits.

Learn how Terra's solutions are helping consumer products companies to:

  • Improve supply chain planning
  • Improve free cash flow
  • Promote profitable growth
  • Exceed corporate sustainability goals.

Demand Sensing

Confidently navigate volatile markets with accurate forecasts that reflect current market realities. Demand Sensing monitors daily demand signals from across the value chain and decreases forecast error up to 40%. This complements existing demand planning systems to create an agile demand-driven supply chain. Demand Sensing has helped many of the world’s largest consumer products companies - including Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Kraft Foods - significantly cut forecast error and inventory.

Inventory Optimization

Increase free cash flow and lower working capital requirements by replacing rules of thumb with specific inventory strategies for each SKU and material across all echelons of the value chain, including retailer locations. Multi-Enterprise Inventory Optimization software optimizes all classes of inventory from raw materials to finished goods to safely cut inventory while protecting or increasing service levels. Using Terra’s solutions, Unilever removed 3 days of inventory and Campbell Soup cut inventory levels by 20%.

Transportation Forecasting

Transportation has never had the kind of forward-looking view of consumption and capacity that supply chain planning provides for finished goods. Instead, planners only have visibility into orders on hand, so even next week's requirements are a mystery. Transportation Forecasting changes that by predicting future shipments by lane/mode/carrier/day. Transportation Forecasting provides advance visibility into promotions, the ability to proactively identify capacity issues and the means to improve strategic sourcing processes, carrier collaboration and intermodal use. Transportation forecasts are synchronized with the S&OP forecast and current product supply strategy, ensuring that the entire company executes against the same demand plan. Kraft Foods and General Mills are examples of companies using Transportation Forecasting.