Streamline your product transitions
Automatically transfer historical data and preserve forecast accuracy
Introduction
Launching a new product or phasing one out should never feel like an uphill battle. Yet every phase-in or phase-out comes with risks: stockouts, excess inventory, lost revenue, and increased pressure on teams. All of this is often made worse by unreliable data at the very moment when decisions matter most.
Our new Product Lifecycle Management module changes the game. It ensures smooth, controlled transitions with accurate forecasts available from day one. You can anticipate better, decide faster, and protect your performance with confidence.
Navigating the challenges of product transitions
Planners know it well: a poorly managed product transition can be costly.
Here are the main pitfalls to avoid:
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Unmanaged end-of-life phases: excess inventory that ties up cash.
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Underestimated new product launches: missed sales opportunities from day one.
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Channel variability: different forecasts per country, store, or e-commerce channel that are difficult to replicate accurately.
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Lack of usable historical data: making it impossible to build reliable forecasts for new products.
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Manual updates: a major source of errors whenever a product code changes or marketing adjusts the timeline.
The result is often the same: delayed decisions, reduced visibility, and reactive rather than strategic planning.
An intelligent module to manage the entire product lifecycle
Our new product lifecycle management module centralizes what planners previously had to handle manually. It connects end-of-life products with their successors while ensuring full continuity of forecasts.
Each transition becomes transparent: you can clearly visualize the links between old and new products, manage transition timelines, and keep a complete history of changes. This approach provides full control over your product portfolio, from SKU creation to product retirement.
Automating phase-in and phase-out processes
One of the key strengths of the module lies in its automation capabilities.
When a product reaches end of life, you simply assign its successor. The system automatically transfers the relevant data — including historical data and associated segments — to the new product.
Forecasting models adapt seamlessly to real-life conditions:
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Automatic creation of forecasts for the successor product
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Dynamic transfer of historical data to ensure forecast continuity
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Preservation of links between products during the transition period (phase-in / phase-out)
The result: fewer errors, smoother transitions, and stable forecasts — even when marketing calendars change.
Advanced multi-channel forecasting management
In many organizations, a single product can have multiple forecasts depending on sales channels, geographic regions, or customer segments. This level of granularity is essential, but often difficult to manage.
Our module automates this complexity.
For example, if a product has five separate forecasts by channel, the successor will automatically inherit all five. Each channel keeps its own sales dynamics, without manual duplication or data loss.
This approach preserves local accuracy while significantly reducing operational workload.
Creating new products based on existing ones
Another common use case is launching a new product that has no direct predecessor but shares similar characteristics with an existing one.
The module allows you to create a new product based on the data of an existing item, without establishing any formal link between them.
This makes it easy to accelerate product launches while starting with reliable, experience-based forecasts.
More reliable forecasts for better decision-making
Thanks to these automations, product transitions become an opportunity rather than a constraint. You gain:
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Greater accuracy, with realistic forecasts from the very first planning cycles
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More agility, through instant creation of new products
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Peace of mind, as teams no longer need to manually manage hundreds of SKUs
The results are tangible: reduced excess inventory, fewer stockouts, and improved visibility into future performance.
Conclusion
Product transitions should never put your sales plan at risk. With this new module, you can manage the entire product lifecycle from a single interface, without data loss or forecasting disruptions.
Give your products the future they deserve.
Discover the module in action and start managing your product lifecycle with confidence.
