Key Capabilities of JDA® Seasonal Profiling:
- Uses pattern analysis to identify and assign persistent seasonality at product and location level
- Traverses the hierarchy, discovering the level at which analyzing patterns is most appropriate given the characteristics of your data
- Monitors profile assignments for fitness and accuracy tracked/reported
- Provides exception management for effective profiling of outlier cases, and automation takes care of the other 95+ percent
- Accurately analyzes tens of thousands of products and locations in minutes
- Automation of pre-described scenarios makes everyone an expert
Understanding a product’s repeatable seasonal pattern is critical to interpreting historical sales and subsequently generating an accurate forecast of future demand. Achieving optimized replenishment requires accurate seasonal profiles coupled with strategic analysis. In order to follow sound forecasting practices, you must have a clear-cut representation of the selling curve for the year, for a product and for a location. Without such profiles, your forecast could confuse the elevated levels of business that might occur during the holiday season, for example, with a high growth trend, and then accelerate the receipt of products to unrealistic levels in January.
Rely on JDA Seasonal Profiling for the advanced techniques and computing power to produce profiles at low levels of the product hierarchy, on a location-by-location basis and with indications of individual location/product time curves. JDA Seasonal Profiling will also automatically revise your profiles in-season using new performance data. The numerical techniques used by JDA Seasonal Profiling allow accurate profiling even for low-volume and low frequency items, all implemented using automation for review of tens to hundreds of millions of location/SKU sales combinations.
