Demand planning
built for food
& beverage
Beat perishability and seasonality. Over-forecast and product expires; under-forecast and service level, customer trust and penalties all suffer. SKU Science keeps your demand plan on the razor's edge: a solid alternative to Excel and complex forecasting software.
Perishability and seasonality, under control
Does your current demand-planning process let you meet customer needs without waste? SKU Science brings much more than forecasts: it sharpens the demand-planning that anchors your whole S&OP process.
- Avoid over-forecasting
Over-estimating demand means significant financial loss as perishable product expires unsold.
- Avoid under-forecasting
Under-estimating demand drops your service level, erodes customer trust and triggers financial penalties.
- Absorb raw-material pressure
Rising raw-material prices and tight availability squeeze margins.
Sharper forecasts ease the strain.
Improve your demand-planning process
Backed by several published books, SKU Science pairs AI-driven forecasting with a well-defined, collaborative demand-planning framework. The engine proposes the baseline; your teams enrich it with promotions, seasonality and shelf-life constraints, and own the final plan: that shared process is where accuracy really comes from.
A baseline forecast at your planning granularity
Forecasts aren't limited to item level. Plan by item × customer, item × sales channel, item × country — whatever matches your S&OP. For each series, the engine picks the best-fitting model, every cycle.
Teams enrich it with field intelligence
Your teams add what the data can't see, promotions, new customers, market signals, layering field knowledge on top of the baseline. Import external forecasts too, to compare them against the engine, side by side.
KPIs by forecast lag focus you on the right horizon
Accuracy and bias are computed at each forecast lag (M+1, M+2, M+3…) and sorted automatically, so you focus on the horizon that drives your decisions. Forecast variability is tracked too, to flag the items whose forecast changed the most since the previous cycle.
Optimize your forecasts for what matters
Supply, production and distribution each commit at a different horizon. SKU Science compares your archived forecasts at the lag that matches each lead time, so accuracy is measured where the decision was really made.
Supply
Improve your forecasts according to the lead times of your supplies, so raw materials arrive when production needs them.
Production
Optimize your forecasts according to production lead times, so the right products are built in the right quantity, on time.
Distribution
Analyze your forecasts in relation to your distribution centers' lead times, to control transport cost and delivery time.
Trusted by food & beverage supply-chain teams
"A software that meets the expectations of a mid-sized enterprise in development. The outcome is highly positive, with an improvement in accuracy of over 10% for certain classes of items."
"The customer service provided by SKU Science has been extraordinary and it's been always available for any question or assistance required to use the tool efficiently."
"The construction of forecasts is very straightforward and comprehensive, with the ability to calculate forecasts at the desired level of aggregation."
Run one cycle before you commit to anything
Upload your sales history with product reference data, and you get operational forecasts in two days: no ERP integration, no IT project. If the numbers don't convince your team, you walk away. Explore the demand planning platform or see pricing plans.
