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Maintaining enough inventory to meet demand is an important part of business. Being able to forecast that demand enables you to maintain the right amount of inventory. The Comergent eBusiness System provides you with the tools to track your partners' inventory and to forecast demand.
An important demand signal that manufacturers use to determine future production is the quantity of inventory that is held by their sales partners. The Comergent eBusiness System enables you to gather information about inventory held by your partners. You can select which sales partners to poll and receive inventory information from them.
The Comergent eBusiness System enables you to automatically send messages to the distributors containing a list of products. The distributor enters the inventory information for each product. The manufacturer can set up an automated process to receive inventory reports from these distributors.
Enterprises can make use of the Comergent eBusiness System to forecast demand for their products through their sales channel. By requiring resellers to submit periodic forecasts, the enterprise can aggregate these demand signals to gain a clear picture of future demand.
Resellers can submit forecasts in the form of a tab-delimited text file through their browser interface to the Comergent eBusiness System. Resellers can create these tab files using a text editor or by exporting the data from a database or a spreadsheet. If the reseller uses a spreadsheet, then they must first save the spreadsheet as a CSV file before uploading the file to the Comergent eBusiness System.
In general, the enterprise is responsible for specifying when forecasts should be submitted by their resellers. This release supports the submission of quarterly forecasts.
Once forecasts have been submitted by the resellers, the enterprise can make use of the reporting capabilities of the Comergent eBusiness System to analyze the forecasts. See Data Analysis Using C3 Analyzer for further information about the available reports.
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