Demand planning software helps businesses forecast customer demand, optimize inventory levels, and improve supply chain efficiency. It uses historical data, market trends, and predictive analytics to generate accurate demand forecasts. These tools assist in reducing stockouts, minimizing excess... Read more
Researched and Edited by Rajat Gupta
Last updated: April 2025
Demand Planning Software overview
Researched and Edited by Rajat Gupta
Last updated: April 2025
Common Features
Demand Forecasting
Planning Dashboard
Historical Reporting
Supply Chain Planning
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Recurrency is a purpose-built revenue automation platform that empowers distributors to modernize their inventory, demand planning, and purchasing processes. With real-time inventory reporting, users gain immediate visibility into KPIs and inventory performance across locations, with flexible ...
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Recurrency offers custom pricing plan
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Recurrency connects effortlessly with existing ERP systems, enabling businesses to unlock real-time inventory insights without disruptive implementations or lengthy setup periods.
The platform provides instant visibility into inventory KPIs, allowing users to proactively identify issues and make data-driven decisions across multiple locations.
With support for up to 18 months of forecasting, demand classification, and scenario tracking, Recurrency significantly enhances planning precision and responsiveness.
Features like smart lead times, min/max optimization, and hub-and-spoke replenishment streamline complex purchasing and inventory strategies across distributed operations.
While effective for distributors, Recurrency may lack advanced supply chain modeling or cross-functional planning seen in more comprehensive platforms.
The platform does not mention features for managing product lifecycle stages, which may limit its scope for manufacturers or product-centric industries.
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The Aftermarket Service Lifecycle Management Platform is the leading solution for manufacturers seeking to optimize their aftermarket operations. Featuring a single, integrated, and scalable architecture, the platform combines advanced AI capabilities with native data connectivity to drive ...
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Syncron Service Lifecycle Management offers custom pricing plan
Pros & Cons
The platform’s unified design enables manufacturers to manage the entire aftermarket lifecycle efficiently, allowing for seamless expansion as business needs evolve.
Out-of-the-box AI models enhance precision in parts management, pricing, and forecasting, significantly reducing planning errors and improving operational outcomes.
Companies can deploy their own machine learning models within the platform, making it flexible for organizations with internal data science capabilities.
The platform fosters cross-functional collaboration with a dedicated space for data scientists, allowing teams to explore, build, and refine predictive models together.
While BYOM is powerful, leveraging it fully demands in-house data science talent, which may be a barrier for smaller organizations.
The platform’s comprehensive capabilities may involve significant upfront investment in integration, training, and change management.
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Lokad’s AI Pilot is an advanced supply chain optimization platform that leverages artificial intelligence to automate and enhance inventory forecasting, pricing strategies, and decision-making. Designed to surpass traditional human-driven processes, it enables businesses to service more clients ...
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Starts from $3500/month when monthly
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Lokad’s use of probabilistic forecasting provides a deeper understanding of demand variability, leading to more precise inventory planning and fewer stockouts or overstock situations.
By robotizing routine supply chain tasks, Lokad drastically reduces manual intervention, improving speed, consistency, and resource allocation across the supply chain.
Lokad enables real-time pricing strategies that allow businesses to stay competitive while protecting margins—ideal for markets with frequent pricing shifts.
Businesses can manage more products with lower inventory levels, leading to reduced holding costs and improved service levels across customer segments.
Lokad’s proprietary Envision scripting language can be challenging for teams without strong technical backgrounds, requiring initial investment in training and support.
Unlike some supply chain platforms, Lokad does not focus on user-friendly drag-and-drop interfaces or standard dashboards, which may hinder non-technical users.
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Absolute Value Demand Planning is a modern solution designed to enhance inventory efficiency and supply chain responsiveness. Featuring built-in dynamic controls, the platform allows businesses to rapidly adapt to shifting demand patterns, enabling real-time adjustments to inventory ...
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Absolute Value offers custom pricing plan
Pros & Cons
The platform's real-time adaptability to shifts in demand helps businesses quickly recalibrate inventory replenishment, minimizing stockouts and overstock situations.
Absolute Value works seamlessly with existing ERP systems, allowing organizations to enhance demand planning capabilities without the need for complex system overhauls.
With full multi-location inventory visibility, users can identify excess or surplus stock and rebalance supply more effectively across their network.
Built-in collaborative forecasting features help cross-functional teams align on demand expectations, improving supply chain coordination and planning accuracy.
While powerful, some of the more advanced functionalities may require training or onboarding time for full adoption across teams.
The solution's performance heavily relies on the accuracy and cleanliness of existing ERP data, which may limit benefits for organizations with poor data hygiene.
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The sedApta Suite offers a comprehensive demand management solution that empowers organizations to accurately forecast sales and align operations with customer needs. By combining statistical and collaborative forecasting capabilities, the platform enables dynamic time series analysis, ...
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sedApta Demand Management offers custom pricing plan
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The blend of statistical and collaborative forecasting ensures precise sales predictions by adapting to both historical data and real-time input, significantly improving planning effectiveness.
Users can configure time series at customized aggregation levels, allowing granular visibility across departments, products, markets, or customer segments.
The platform’s ability to manually adjust forecasts for special events, promotions, or new market dynamics enhances agility and responsiveness to external fluctuations.
By aligning supply with demand, sedApta helps reduce overstocking, lowers purchasing costs, and maintains ideal inventory levels across the supply chain.
The platform’s comprehensive features and configuration options may be overwhelming without proper onboarding or training.
While demand forecasting is robust, explicit capacity planning features are not clearly defined, possibly requiring additional tools or modules.
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SAS® Collaborative Planning Workbench is a powerful forecasting platform designed to automate and enhance consensus planning across the enterprise. It streamlines the demand forecasting process by integrating internal and external data into a structured, analytics-driven workflow. By leveraging ...
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SAS Collaborative Planning Workbench offers custom pricing plan
Pros & Cons
SAS® Collaborative Planning Workbench automates the entire consensus planning process using a structured, analytics-backed workflow, significantly reducing manual effort and planning inconsistencies across departments.
By consolidating internal and external demand forecasts and applying weighted statistical techniques, it improves forecast precision and provides a more holistic view of demand.
Users can easily simulate different planning outcomes and adjust baseline forecasts, enhancing flexibility and preparedness for market volatility.
Built-in FVA tools allow organizations to quantify the impact of manual adjustments versus statistical models, enabling data-driven improvements.
The analytics-heavy interface and statistical features may be challenging for users unfamiliar with data science or advanced forecasting techniques.
As part of an enterprise-grade SAS suite, the platform may involve substantial investment, making it less accessible for smaller businesses.
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Quantics Planning is an advanced, user-friendly platform designed to empower organizations in dynamic markets to enhance their Demand Planning and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes. It unifies siloed data and cross-functional teams, enabling a consistent planning framework across ...
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Quantics Planning offers custom pricing plan
Pros & Cons
Quantics eliminates silos by enabling seamless collaboration across departments, ensuring that all stakeholders contribute to a unified and consistent planning strategy.
The platform integrates a market view into planning processes, allowing businesses to understand demand drivers and shape forecasts based on real-world influences.
Users gain access to real-time data insights that enhance visibility into performance, helping them adapt quickly to changes and optimize plans efficiently.
Quantics helps organizations manage uncertainty by continuously refining forecasts, leading to more accurate, responsive, and resilient planning.
Integrating Quantics into existing systems and processes may require significant time and effort, especially in large or decentralized organizations.
While the platform is user-friendly, some of the more advanced forecasting and analytics tools may require training to use effectively.
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HIMPACT by Herlitz Inventory Management is a next-generation demand forecasting and inventory replenishment solution designed for today’s rapidly evolving wholesale and retail environments. Leveraging daily analytics and proprietary algorithms, HIMPACT replaces outdated, backward-looking ...
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HIMPACT offers custom pricing plan
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HIMPACT’s use of daily analytics and proprietary algorithms significantly enhances forecast accuracy by continuously adapting to real-time demand signals.
The system smartly separates regular, promotional, and lost sales demand, providing a granular understanding of customer behavior and helping buyers make more informed decisions.
With automated updates and exception alerts, HIMPACT reduces manual workload and allows planners to focus on strategic decision-making rather than routine tasks.
The inclusion of Service and Lost Sales Analysis gives users a deeper understanding of customer demand changes and the root causes of missed sales, refining future forecasts.
Due to the advanced analytics and automated functionalities, initial setup and onboarding may be challenging for businesses without prior experience in sophisticated forecasting tools.
The effectiveness of HIMPACT relies heavily on the availability of clean, detailed sales order data—poor data quality could hinder performance.
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Vuealta Demand & Inventory Planning is a powerful, collaborative solution designed to help organizations accurately forecast demand, optimize inventory levels, and manage costs effectively. Built on the market-leading Anaplan connected planning platform, the solution is purpose-built with ...
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Vuealta Demand Planning offers custom pricing plan
Pros & Cons
Eliminates system maintenance headaches, allowing teams to focus on supply chain performance.
Ready-to-deploy solution ensures quick time-to-value.
Facilitates confident decision-making across the supply chain.
Enables rapid responses to both planned and unexpected events.
Full functionality may depend on Anaplan subscription costs.
Advanced customer or product segmentation capabilities unclear.
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SCP by Jada Management Systems LLC (JMS) is a robust and intuitive software designed for forecasting, demand planning, and vendor managed inventory (VMI). Highly automated and user-friendly, SCP allows planners to focus on critical business tasks rather than technical complexities. With ...
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Average setup and training completed within 2-3 weeks.
Seamlessly connects with ERP, WMS, Excel, FTP, XML, and EDI.
Saves time by automating data integration, reporting, and exception management.
Easy to navigate, reducing the learning curve for planners.
No indication of demand sensing or advanced analytics like machine learning-based forecasting.
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Kinaxis Demand Planning offers a robust, AI-powered platform designed to eliminate guesswork and enhance forecast accuracy across the supply chain. By integrating inputs from sales, marketing, finance, customers, and suppliers, it enables organizations to generate precise short- and long-term ...
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Kinaxis - Demand Planning offers custom pricing plan
Pros & Cons
Forecasts promotional event impacts and helps automate promotion planning to maximize sales and minimize trade spend.
Proactively identifies risks and maximizes revenue opportunities through tight cross-functional coordination.
Allows users to simulate various “what-if” scenarios and assess the impact of events like promotions or new product launches.
Integrates inputs from multiple stakeholders (sales, marketing, finance, customers, and suppliers) for better forecast alignment.
While new product introductions are considered, full product lifecycle management functionality appears limited.
Enterprise-grade platform may involve significant investment, making it less accessible for smaller businesses.
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Intuendi is an advanced AI-driven demand planning and inventory replenishment platform designed to streamline supply chain operations and maximize ROI. Enhanced by its intelligent AI assistant, Symphonie, Intuendi offers omni-channel demand planning, enabling businesses to make informed, ...
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INTUENDI offers custom pricing plan
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Supports demand planning across multiple sales channels, enhancing flexibility and reach.
Minimizes freight costs by suggesting container-optimized order fulfillment.
Provides detailed understock, overstock, and growth analysis for better inventory decisions.
Balances inventory across warehouses and intelligently selects suppliers for cost efficiency.
Product lifecycle management and deep segmentation analysis capabilities are limited or not explicitly covered.
Capacity considerations are implied but not fully developed or detailed as a core feature.
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Arkieva is a comprehensive, AI-driven demand planning solution designed to empower supply chain professionals with real-time insights, predictive accuracy, and agile decision-making. Trusted by over 15,000 users globally, Arkieva offers a robust suite of tools, including Collaborative Demand ...
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Arkieva - Demand Planning offers custom pricing plan
Pros & Cons
Modular design ensures flexibility and seamless system integration.
Proactively detects market shifts and influences future demand.
Includes finite scheduling, replenishment, and inventory optimization.
Dynamic modeling of “what-if” scenarios enhances agility and risk mitigation.
Heavy dependence on AI and algorithms may limit user control or override business intuition.
Robust enterprise-grade features may not be cost-effective for smaller companies.
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StockWise is a powerful real-time analytics application designed to optimize inventory management and maximize sales performance. By delivering accurate daily demand forecasting at the SKU and location level, it enables businesses to align inventory with customer needs, reducing waste and ...
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Starts from $1160/store/month
Pros & Cons
Empowers businesses with actionable insights to improve supply chain efficiency and sales.
Helps reduce dead stock, overstock, and pilferage, improving profitability.
Streamlines inventory management and reduces manual effort.
Provides instant visibility into stock levels for proactive decision-making.
More complex simulations, segmentation, and predictive analytics are not detailed.
Lacks features to manage products through various lifecycle stages.
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Forecast Pro is a powerful off-the-shelf forecasting solution designed for business forecasters across industries. Trusted by over 12,000 organizations and 40,000+ users worldwide, it combines AI, machine learning, and advanced statistical methods to deliver accurate, data-driven forecasts. ...
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Starts from $1995/user/year when yearly
Pros & Cons
Easily integrates with broader planning systems and offers SDK for developers.
Manages complex data structures and multiple units of measure.
Tracks performance and highlights variances for better decision-making.
Easy-to-use interface with fast deployment—operational within hours or days.
Limited built-in dashboards and simulation features compared to enterprise planning suites.
Lacks real-time data processing for agile demand sensing.
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SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) is an integrated supply chain management solution designed to optimize demand and supply planning across complex networks. It offers robust demand forecasting, supply network planning, and production scheduling capabilities, ensuring higher ...
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SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization offers custom pricing plan
Pros & Cons
Facilitates efficient data sharing and real-time visibility across supply chain operations.
Offers heuristic, rule-based, and optimization-driven planning, enabling scenario modeling and simulations.
Ensures reliable order commitments with advanced rules-based ATP and multi-level BOM checks.
Supports lifecycle, promotion, and collaborative demand planning for accurate forecasting.
Lacks explicit, advanced demand sensing and automated segmentation functionalities found in newer solutions.
Extensive features and technical depth may challenge new users and require expert training.
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EazyStock’s demand forecasting software leverages AI and machine learning algorithms to deliver highly accurate forecasts that account for seasonality, trends, promotions, and market volatility. Designed to move beyond basic ERP functionality and manual spreadsheets, EazyStock helps businesses ...
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EazyStock - Demand forecasting offers custom pricing plan
Pros & Cons
Provides ready-made KPIs and visual dashboards for easy inventory monitoring and decision-making.
Improves supplier relationships by generating demand projections and providing early visibility into order schedules.
Adapts forecasting models based on item lifecycle stages and supports new product launches.
Calculates optimal order quantities, reorder points, and safety stock, saving time and reducing manual errors.
Offers projections but lacks full-scale advanced scenario planning and simulation capabilities.
Does not explicitly support complex multi-channel demand management requirements.
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Blue Yonder’s Cognitive Demand Planning software leverages advanced AI, machine learning, and patented algorithms to deliver highly accurate, unbiased demand forecasts with clear business impact and risk analysis. By ingesting hundreds of demand-driving variables, it enhances planner ...
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Blue Yonder Demand Planning offers custom pricing plan
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Supports inventory reduction while maintaining service levels and increasing margins.
Enhances cross-functional collaboration, improving transparency and alignment.
Achieves a 75% boost in planner productivity and substantial cost reductions.
Speeds up decision-making and reduces manual efforts with automated predictions.
AI-driven functionalities may demand training for optimal use.
Advanced features may come with a premium price tag.
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o9 Demand Planning Software empowers enterprises with AI-powered insights to transform traditional planning processes into agile, integrated decision-making. Built on the o9 Digital Brain platform, it enhances end-to-end demand planning by breaking down silos and enabling real-time ...
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o9 Solutions - Demand Planning offers custom pricing plan
Pros & Cons
Efficiently manages demand across various channels and customer segments.
Interactive dashboards provide real-time insights and historical reporting for better visibility.
Connects demand planning, supply chain, capacity, and product lifecycle management seamlessly.
Enables better decision-making through what-if analysis and risk evaluation.
Advanced features and AI-driven models may require training for full utilization.
The platform’s robust capabilities may come at a premium, making it expensive for smaller businesses.
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SO99+ is an AI-powered dynamic supply chain planning solution designed to help businesses navigate uncertainty and make faster, smarter decisions. Leveraging advanced statistical, optimization, and heuristic algorithms, it delivers accurate self-adaptive, frequency-based probabilistic ...
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Service Optimizer 99+ offers custom pricing plan
Pros & Cons
Balances inventory investment with high service levels and reduced working capital.
Supports faster and smarter decisions with advanced algorithms and automation.
Covers demand sensing, promotion management, replenishment, and production planning.
Optimizes inventory positioning across the entire supply chain network.
Users may require significant training to leverage AI-driven features and forecasting models effectively.
Advanced features may come with a high price tag for small to mid-sized companies.