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Precision Forecasting for Better Demand Planning Your solution for a better consensus forecast to drive demand planning and your S&OP process Maximize Profits and Service Levels Getting the most from forecasting involves the ability to run analysis, share and collaborate with others, and get access to the array of metrics to evaluate and improve your results. Most systems do 2 of the 3 of these well. Halo is the first to blend an advanced forecasting engine with a simple to use business intelligence platform. With Halo, you can simply connect to and prepare any array of data from across your systems, cleanse that data, and manage your forecasting reporting. Forecasting can be done with top down, bottom up, and middle out strategies depending on the business need. Halo’s hierarchy builder enables your company to forecast from the SKU to the business level, then reconcile those results for consistency. Halo provides you the executive dashboards and reporting to drive forecast-based planning through the organization. Identify risk and opportunity from demand drivers Reduce inventory levels and stock-outs Simplify consensus forecasting in your S&OP process Most forecasting systems provide a view of the future. However, few make it easy to drill down into the drivers of that prediction. Halo Forecasting provides powerful drill-down, ad hoc and reporting features to examine forecast dynamics from any perspective. Delivering the right product at the right time to the best location is the fastest way to increase efficiencies and free up working capital. A good forecast is the foundation for solid demand planning. Omni-channel marketers can use Halo Forecasting to optimize inventory decisions by channel. A simple and flexible workflow is key to collaborating on a consensus forecast. Halo provides a single interface for establishing and managing a planning cycle with multiple participants, scenario planning, and management reporting. The Halo Data Science Advisory Services Group is available on an engagement basis for companies seeking support through the design and adoption phase. Our team includes Ph.D. analysts, actuarial analysts, and industry consultants. More Than Software On-premise, Cloud or Hybrid Scenarios

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Precision Forecasting for Better Demand PlanningYour solution for a better consensus forecast to drive demand planning and your S&OP process

Maximize Profits and Service Levels

Getting the most from forecasting involves the ability to run analysis, share and collaborate with others, and get access to the array of metrics to evaluate and improve your results. Most systems do 2 of the 3 of these well. Halo is the first to blend an advanced forecasting engine with a simple to use business intelligence platform. With Halo, you can simply connect to and prepare any array of data from across your systems, cleanse that

data, and manage your forecasting reporting. Forecasting can be done with top down, bottom up, and middle out strategies depending on the business need. Halo’s hierarchy builder enables your company to forecast from the SKU to the business level, then reconcile those results for consistency. Halo provides you the executive dashboards and reporting to drive forecast-based planning through the organization.

Identify risk and opportunity from demand drivers

Reduce inventory levels and stock-outs

Simplify consensus forecasting in your S&OP process

Most forecasting systems provide a view of the future. However, few make it easy to drill down into the drivers of that prediction. Halo Forecasting provides powerful drill-down, ad hoc and reporting features to examine forecast dynamics from any perspective.

Delivering the right product at the right time to the best location is the fastest way to increase efficiencies and free up working capital. A good forecast is the foundation for solid demand planning. Omni-channel marketers can use Halo Forecasting to optimize inventory decisions by channel.

A simple and flexible workflow is key to collaborating on a consensus forecast. Halo provides a single interface for establishing and managing a planning cycle with multiple participants, scenario planning, and management reporting.

The Halo Data Science Advisory Services Group is available on an engagement basis for companies seeking support through the design and adoption phase. Our team includes Ph.D. analysts, actuarial analysts, and industry consultants.

More Than Software On-premise, Cloud or Hybrid Scenarios

Halo delivers supply chain intelligence solutions to hundreds of enterprise customers and service provider partners in North and South America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Our customer-driven S&OP platform radically simplifies information management and operational analytics, enabling organizations to build more competitive supply chains. Halo replaces the complexity of siloed data sources and disparate applications with a single-purpose platform that lets firms analyze, decide and plan faster than ever before.

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Halo Forecasting is the first solution to combine a powerful statistical modeling engine with a complete business intelligence platform. This approach means you get the best forecasting solution while radically reducing the manual and labor-intensive steps traditionally required for data preparation, management reporting and collaboration. Integrate with any enterprise planning system, spreadsheet and external data source to improve your results fast.

Automated Tournament Modeling Data Integration and Cleansing

Market Factors Analysis

Accuracy and Bias Metrics

Hierarchy Manager

New Product and Transition Product Forecasting

Tournament modeling is designed for situations where a data expert isn’t available or there are simply too many SKUs to forecast manually. Control your selection criteria and choose from among multiple accuracy metrics.

Halo provides a full range of statistical metrics to monitor your forecasts and determine where to spend your time for the best results.

Perhaps the most over-looked process of superior forecasting, Halo quickly prepares your data for analysis with vital data integration and cleansing capabilities.

Covariate analysis enables you to model the impact of promotions, weather and other factors on your forecasts.

Build product hierarchies from SKU to category level and generate forecasts that reconcile at any level.

Use historical actuals from analog products, or create predictive models using a machine learning option.

Automated forecasts

Customized to your data

Tournament modeling of historical data predicts sales for every SKU by every customer.

Easily modify and control date ranges, dimensions, granularity and algorithms.

Quickly make manual adjustments to your baseline forecast and visualize potential outcomes for any situation.

Simplified what-if scenarios