Oil Gas and Chemicals

Demand Forecasting and Order Generation

Description The value of a automated replenishment solution is to generate optimized deliveries on a ‘Just In Time’ basis while smoothing the daily variations in transportation demands. Our transportation and logistics solutions will help you to streamline your supply and distribution – even when facing a large numbers of orders and order diversity.

Challenges How can you forecast your demand?
How can you use that forecast to optimize your route planning?

Solution ORTEC’s Demand Forecasting and Order Generation solution is designed to provide automated stock replenishment as part of a customer service strategy for product delivery. It enables suppliers to manage customer stock levels with clear benefits for both supplier and customer. ORTEC supports making deliveries on a just-in-time basis while smoothing out variations in transportation demands. For each customer demand profiles can either be calculated or predefined. Furthermore ORTEC provides a selection of order generation strategies, e.g. full truck load or equal days replenishment.

The following aspects are taken into account:

  • Open and close times of customer locations
  • Customer delivery windows
  • Customer demand per time of day and day of week
  • Flexible delivery periods (for example 4, 72 or 120 hours)
  • Minimum and maximum drop size
  • Safety stock levels
  • Seasonality
  • Calendar events such as public holidays, Christmas etc.
Benefits:
  • Increase in customer service
  • Increase of average drop size
  • Decrease of delivery frequency
  • Less out-of-stock situations
  • Enhanced marketing & sales capabilities