Demand Forecasting
Predicting future demand to guide purchasing and inventory decisions.
Also known as: demand planning, forecasting
What is Demand Forecasting?
Demand forecasting is the practice of predicting future product demand — by SKU, channel, and period — to drive purchasing, production, and inventory decisions. It blends historical sales, seasonality, promotions, and market signals into a plan that the whole supply chain leans on. A forecast is only as useful as the clean, unified sales data feeding it, which is why fragmented systems produce bad forecasts.
How Endless handles it
Endless feeds unified, multichannel sales history — including wholesale and 852 sell-through — into forecasting, so demand plans reflect the whole business, not one channel.
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