AI-Powered Demand Forecasting
Key Capabilities for Demand Planners
Configurable Forecast Alerts
Configurable Forecast Alerts
- Configure alerts to be notified when new forecasts are available, new forecast pipelines have been deployed, or a new forecast triggers an exception
Prioritized Forecast Review and Evidence Packages
Prioritized Forecast Review and Evidence Packages
- Quickly review new forecasts in prioritized order
- Deep-dive into new forecasts with intuitive interpretability and context to understand the “why” behind a forecast
Ad-hoc Forecasting & What-if Scenarios
Ad-hoc Forecasting & What-if Scenarios
- Modify input data and generate new forecasts; compare to AI baseline
- Run “what if?” scenarios to generate new forecasts under simulated conditions
Bi-directional Integration with ERP and Other Planning Systems
Bi-directional Integration with ERP and Other Planning Systems
- Automatically, in bulk, and individually “push” approved forecasts into downstream planning systems
Collaboration with Modelers
Collaboration with Modelers
- Provide in-app feedback to Modelers on forecast pipeline outputs
Forecast Health KPI tracking
Forecast Health KPI tracking
- Monitor configurable demand forecasting KPIs globally, and for specific products, geographies, and customers
Key Capabilities for Forecast Modelers
Comprehensive, Unified, and Up-to-date Data Image
Comprehensive, Unified, and Up-to-date Data Image
- Leverage all relevant enterprise and external data in forecasting demand
- Save time wrangling data - integrated data is pre-modeled, normalized, and time-aligned for segmentation and forecasting use
AI-based Data Cleansing
AI-based Data Cleansing
- Utilize AI-based anomaly detection & imputation techniques to improve input data quality
AI-based Segmentation
AI-based Segmentation
- Employ AI-based time series clustering to dynamically segment across products, locations, and customers
- Tailor forecasting approaches across segments
Automatic Feature Selection
Automatic Feature Selection
- Automatically down-select best performing features
- Store, share, and version features in a feature store
Advanced AI-based Forecasting
Advanced AI-based Forecasting
- Choose from over 20 out-of-the-box advanced AI forecasting algorithms including autoregressive machine learning and deep learning techniques
- Easily integrate any other open-source or proprietary algorithm
Forecast Model Operations
Forecast Model Operations
- Easily deploy new segmentation and forecast pipelines
- Deploy “challenger” pipelines that run alongside live pipelines to compare performance over time
- Monitor pipeline performance with configurable scoring & alerting
Scope
C3 AI Demand Forecasting can be flexibly deployed across a wide range of use cases and industries.
Granularity
Global, regional, facility location-specific
Product family, product, SKU
Customer, customer region, customer location-specific
Any interval (e.g., intra-day, daily, monthly)
Use Cases
Long Range Forecasting
Planning Horizon Forecasting
Demand Sensing
Industries
Retail
Consumer Packaged Goods
Industrial Manufacturing
Energy
Petrochemicals
Aerospace & Defense
Utilities
Healthcare
Benefits for Supply Chain Professionals
Planning Executives
Maintain near-real-time enterprise-wide visibility into demand forecast accuracy and efficiency; rapidly identify problem areas.
Demand Planners
Improve baseline forecast accuracy and increase operational efficiency to reduce planning cycle times.
Forecast Modelers
Collaborate with Planners to dynamically configure, deploy and maintain forecasting pipelines and continuously improve forecast accuracy.
Data Architecture
