Reviews of Avercast

"The Avercast program has many features that I use on a daily basis. Once I understood how the progr"

Pros: Avercast gives you the ability to make forecast plans and events on several levels. It allows you to not only plan demand at the SKU level, it has the ability to roll that demand up to different levels, allowing you to get a high level view of the total demand and overall trends. The built in forecasting methods are a covenant when you want to automate some of your forecasting. The data extract and import modules are very convenient when you are maintaining your items, or updating a large number of forecasts at one time. The program overall has helped us reduce our overall inventory levels, as well as helped us gain better access and visibility into our supply and forecasting plans.

Cons: Because Avercast has so many built in fuctions, and the Avercast team continues to improve the functionality of the program, one of the difficulties that we see are, whenever there is a new version roll out there are several customizations that we have built into our version that need to be rewritten and rebuilt into our new versions in order for our program to run correctly again. Although the use of built in forecasting methods makes forecasting convienant, it is often difficult to know which forecasting algorithms are being applied to the forecast and what data they are being derived from. It would be nice if Avercast gave you an idea of what forecasting methods are being applied and how to interpret the out put of those forecasting algorithms.

"Avercast's tool is already robust, but they are next level when it comes to cutting edge development"

Overall: We've not only seen generous financial gains from the reduction of excess inventory as a by product of implementing the software but also a major improvement in our processes, collaboration, and general understanding of our mission as planners for the company. Our team now spends the appropriate amount of time analyzing the data, putting into practice the adage of "work smarter, not harder." Avercast is the tool that will allow our company sustainable growth for decades moving forward.

Pros: Flexibility, customer service, openness and follow through to develop enhancements, consistent and easy implementation, quick ROI

Cons: I have little to no complaints, this should be a software solution that is on everyone's list when considering purchasing a demand planning software system.

"The Avercast team is incredible. Always on the cutting edge."

Pros: Avercast makes planning so easy. Because they can have it work with my system, I can easily integrate it and use it in many ways. I loved how easy it was to get to the data and use it with Business intelligence. It allowed us to manage our Sales and Operations in a way that was out of this world. Most importantly, they take care of us. If we had questions or needed help they were right there. They are a classy team that treat you like family.

Cons: I was really hoping they would work to make entering forecasts by sales reps easier. I believe they are coming out or have come out with a solution.

"Easy to use, good GUI, love the graphs, easy to use!"

Pros: Ease of use is important, great results are more important. We get them both with Avercast. Outstanding support is another feature that makes this a smart choice. It something needs tweaking to better serve your business, they are there to get it done quickly. No SOW, no exhorbitatant fees, just excellent service and results.

Cons: I wish there was another dimension available for safety stock that focused on variability to compliment the magnitude aspect of stratifying items into ABC. A variable A item should have higher SS than a predictable one...having this analysis would add another level of refinement to inventory planning.

"Powerful tool. Allows me to forecast and scale up in an economical way. Sets up company for growth."

Pros: Forecast algorithms! Visual graphs and different choices for graphs. Customer support and hands on approach by the entire Avercast team!

Cons: Integrating it with D3FO. Response time to getting it integrated was slow for awhile, but the team has picked up the pace these past few months and things are moving along now. But I am still worried how Avercast will push forecasts through to D3FO because I have been unable to do so.

"Avercast is customer focused."

Pros: I like that the Avercast is fast. It doesn't take too long to run reports and review our items on Summary Forecast. The "Flag Action Messages With" section quickly shows what needs attention.

Cons: I would like to see if there is a way to have list of all the tables that could be pulled from Data Extract with each table's corresponding columns.

"A challenge to learn/navigate at first but very useful overall."

Overall: Streamlined pipelines among customers. Visibility of inventory/open to buy across various vendors, channels and customers.

Pros: Being able to run difference forecast modules simultaneously. The ease of producing pipeline with a click .

Cons: You have to wait to the system updates to see forecast changes and any pipelines or open to buys or any reports for that matter will be inaccurate untll that point.

"Very good. Very easy, and helping us improve inventory planning and cash flows"

Pros: Ease of use and integration with our business systems is a great strength. The data mapping was painless, and we were able to get value from the product more or less immediately

Cons: Nothing - great product. We have been amazed at the ease of use, and I can't really say a bad word about the product.