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Automate and accelerate demand planning insights across your supply chain

Demand planning for retail and consumer goods from SAS

Learn about demand planning with AI-enabled collaborative forecasting.



Analyze market signals to better predict product demand

Discover how you can transform demand planning into a continuous, flexible process with collaborative forecasting and demand planning.

Make faster, smarter supply chain decisions

Gain proven, reliable forecasting with scalable analytics and weekly demand planning across all stores and products, no matter your organization's size.

Provide connected demand planning business processes

Enable low-touch planning with scenario simulations to improve planning, productivity and agility with intelligent process automation driven by AI and machine learning.

Deliver trusted business outcomes that matter

Identify risk and opportunity to see the wider impact of tactical decisions on performance and make transparent, explainable decisions.

How SAS delivers award-winning demand planning solutions

  • 12.3%

    SAS helped a multinational retailer operating hypermarkets, discount departments and grocery stores achieve a 12.3% increase in forecast accuracy, reduce shipping costs and improve e-commerce fulfillment with in-store pickup.

  • Calimax, a leading Mexican grocery store chain, is focused on providing high-quality fruits and vegetables. With SAS, it transformed its demand planning strategy to deliver the right produce products at the right time and price point.

  • SAS helped Levi Strauss & Co. improve its SKU mix, increase shipments to key accounts and cluster trade areas based on profitable products.

    SAS Viya: The data and AI platform for your retail & consumer goods business

    Clean and manage data, automate highly-accurate, AI-enabled forecasts and optimize your supply chain for greater sustainability.


    Recommended resources for demand planning

    E-book

    A blueprint for demand planning evolution in four stages

    Webinar

    Think Outside the Cart: Reimagining Retail With SAS


    SAS is a leader in demand planning solutions

    SAS is a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Machine Learning Operations Platform.

    SAS is a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Retail Planning Platforms, Q4 2023.

    SAS is a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning.


    Featured Products

    Learn more about demand planning solutions from SAS.

    SAS Intelligent Planning

    Accurately forecast shopper and consumer demand to create seamless merchandise and assortment plans.

    • Develop more productive planning processes.
    • Boost your financial performance.
    • Create a better customer experience.

    SAS Intelligent Performance Management

    Reconcile and close the books faster with more accurate budgets and instant consolidations.

    • Budgeting & planning.
    • Flexible & scalable modeling.
    • Accounting logic with dynamic consolidation.
    • Analysis & reporting.