Forecast Pro, You can have your Sausage and Eat it
A great Forecast Pro success story is the Oberto Sausage Company. Oberto Sausage Company is a leading manufacturer of meat snacks and sausage products. Based in Washington, USA, the family-owned company has been in business for more than 85 years. Oberto sells its products directly to mass merchandisers and major supermarket chains.
What took Oberto to Forecast Pro was they were dealing with consistent double-digit growth and where event-driven demand is always present; Oberto needed a forecasting system which would allow them to do the following:
- routinely model and forecast ongoing "base" demand
- easily incorporate field-based knowledge of expected deviation from base demand
- keep track of changes to the forecast along with the assumptions underlying those changes
- develop consumption-based forecasts for key business segments and integrate those forecasts into the overall forecast, and
- maintain an optimal balance between forecast quality and the complexity, cost and resources devoted to generating the forecast.
Forecast Pro was the only solution that could deliver for their requirements. At Oberto they have a full compliment of Forecast Pro products. Oberto are using Forecast Pro as the main foundation for their demand forecasting process—it’s where the forecast is generated and maintained. After the forecast is established in Forecast Pro, it is fed into their ERP system where it drives procurement, planning/ scheduling and plant execution.
Forecast Pro has delivered results back to Oberto. After initially employing a more complex and widely-deployed forecasting process and system, Oberto has opted for a more focused and streamlined approach using Forecast Pro as its backbone. Oberto points out key benefits of the forecast process and Forecast Pro is that they have been able to sustain years of double digit growth while inventory value has remained constant. Oberto with Forecast Pro has also been able to strategically identify potential gaps in our plans where we may have shortfalls with important customers and move proactively to fill those gaps.
Overall Forecast Pro is used for everything from planning/scheduling all the way up to revenue projection by the executive team. To understand the power of Forecast Pro try a free month’s trial of Forecast Pro for your own company.