Inventory Demand Forecasting Apps
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Link | Inventory Planner | SkuVault | Finale Inventory | ForecastR | Lokad | Open to Buy | Streamline | frePPle | Brightworks | Demand Solutions | Data Profits | BlueRidge | Syncron | SkuBrain | Skubana | RightSizedInventory | ForecastPro |
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| Website | inventory-planner.com | skuvault.com/... | finaleinventory.com | forecastrx.com | lokad.com | opentobuywizard.com | gmdhsoftware.com | frepple.com | scmfocus.com/... | demandsolutions.com | data-profits.com | blueridgeglobal.com | syncron.com | skubrain.com | skubana.com | rightsizedinventory.com | forecastpro.com/... |
| Online Account | inventory-planner.com/... | skuvault.com/... | forecastrx.com/... | lokad.com | frepple.com | ||||||||||||
| Pricing | about $150/m to $300/m depending on number of Channels | $149/m 2 users <5000 orders per month $300/m 3 users, unlimited orders and skus BUT $2000 one-off onboarding charge (possibly negotiable) | $400/m $4000/y for Enterprise version and up to 10,000 SKU's | from $150/m $1440/y software only £2500-£3300 per month including 'engineer' | $400/m for 1 user $1356/m $1118/y for 5 users | $970/m | |||||||||||
| Pro's | Seemingly quite flexible and versatile at an affordable price. Seems to do most of what is needed and can possibly be adapted to do more. Good communications and support. Use of tags, options, etc Cloud-based Easy data updates at any time Excel import (not just csv) Automatic overnight upload of data Ability to combine warehouses Small business solution supplier and therefore possibly more speedily amenable to sensible ideas which might enhance their software. Easy export of data to excel. Better use of categorisation than ForecastR (I think). Also seems to be slightly more logical. Unlimited user accounts. Integration with many platforms (albeit not the ones we currently use). A lot of data such as Tags, Brands, Options can be created pretty much on the fly without needing to create the header records first - makes ease of use that much more straightforward. | Seems very comprehensive | Seemingly quite flexible and versatile at an affordable price. Seems to do most of what is needed and can possibly be adapted to do more. Good communications and support. Use of tags, options, etc Cloud based. Seems to have comprehensive help support. | Seems like a very comprehensive system but typically comes with an 'engineer' support at a rather high price tag. Unlimited users. Cloud-based. | Integrates with Odoo | ||||||||||||
| Con's | Help and FAQ's are rather thin on the ground (but what's there is quite good). Does not offer anything clever as regards warehouse and container space planning or budgeting. | More of a complete WMS and so not easy to immediately see how to get the benefits of the system without the complete system. | The cost - assuming you include the engineer they recommend. But if you have quite a high turnover even the software-only price tag gets quite high. Looked really great on the demo but a bit disappointing on the trial, especially that when you click on the various metrics etc it just opens up a large image rather than any kind of drilldown. It also does not feel very intuitive in real-time use. Seems very unintuitive | Very expensive Desktop-based | Expensive compared with other systems. Seems very unintuitive and complicated to get the hang of | ||||||||||||
| Users | Unlimited | Depends on price | 5 | Unlimited | |||||||||||||
| Multi-store | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| Multi warehouse | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| Ability to group warehouses | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Delivery note upload | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Purchase Order Upload | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| API | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Auto-Update | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Low Stock Alert | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Years of history it uses | 3 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| Can products easily be grouped by categories and other factors (tags, colours, size, etc) | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Is it easy to compare various standard periods? | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Does the system take account of Out of Stock Days? | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Does the system take account of seasonality? | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Easy manual forecast adjustments | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Logical/Intuitive UX | - | ||||||||||||||||
| Reasonably quick | Yes | No | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| Good filter system | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Good Help / Knowledgebase | - | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| Good support | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Contractual Commitment | Monthly | Monthly | None | ||||||||||||||
| Link to Google Analytics | Yes | No | |||||||||||||||
| Cloud-based | Yes | Yes | No | ||||||||||||||
| Cubic measurements | No | - Say included | |||||||||||||||
| Product Weights | No | - Say included | |||||||||||||||
| ODBC Connector | No | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| Magento Interface | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Amazon Interface | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Odoo Interface | No | ||||||||||||||||
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| Can you set review periods per supplier? |
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