Relying on Machine Learning, Forecast at Scale and Trade Promotions Management technological capabilities, FuturMaster’s Bloom Demand Planning solution is a unique platform. When combined with data and business expertise, it will not only make an accurate demand plan but will also transform forecasting into a competitive advantage.
FuturMaster’s Bloom Supply Planning solution relies on digital twin modelling and global optimisation algorithms to leverage all the possibilities of your extended supply networks and achieve an edge over your competitors.
Bloom Trade Promotions or TPx stands for Trade Promotions Planning, Management, Optimisation, Execution and Analysis. Relying on Machine Learning algorithms, Bloom TPx transforms the management of promotional activities to make sure it will drive trade promotions that will achieve the sales and financial objectives of the company.
Bloom Sales and Budget Planning allows you to make live simulations and scenarios at scale and translate them into data and dashboards to plan the go-to-market strategy and observe its impacts. This plan is then shared with all stakeholders and drives the business execution of operational processes.
Advanced Launch Management
FuturMaster Advanced Launch Management enables effective management of launch campaigns from marketing brief to the end customer. This solution considers customer habits and input from key stakeholders in the creation of precise launch plans which can be modelled, monitored and analysed.
Demand Management
FuturMaster Demand Management allows you to enhance your demand forecast from launch to the end of product lifecycle; using an integrated process and sharing a common set of data with stakeholders, improves the forecast reliability.
Trade Promotion Management
FuturMaster Advanced Promotion Management improves the efficiency of promotional campaigns by increasing the reliability and visibility of information, whilst closely monitoring promotional performance.
Distribution Planning
FuturMaster Distribution Planning manages every level of the distribution chain, developing realistic scenarios (considering distribution network, supply constraints, shutdowns, etc.) and optimising your existing operations (quality of service, stock availability, waste, logistics-related costs).
Production Planning
FuturMaster Production Planning manages every stage of your production process (finished products, semi-finished products, raw materials and components), develops realistic plans (considering capacity and flow synchronisation) and optimises your operations (quality of service, use of resource, stock availability).
Procurement
FuturMaster Procurement manages the procurement of both end products and components in line with supplier constraints, availability targets and quality of service requirements.
Sales Planning & Budgeting
FuturMaster Sales Planning & Budgeting consolidates data from multiple sources, shifts focus to value adding tasks, validates scenarios and enables annualised sales planning & budgeting.
S&OP / IBP
FuturMaster Sales & Operations Planning consolidates data relating to demand forecasting, business planning, production and supply in a single tool to anticipate and report on risks (reduced operations, risk of breakage or over-stocking, site capacity limitations) and to ensure aligned and collaborative decision making.
Bloom Platform
FuturMaster’s Bloom Platform enables our customers to thrive in this challenging era by gaining competitive advantage, agility and resilience while reducing total cost-to-serve.
Our Bloom platform enables them to build horizontally-integrated optimised plans that take into account their extended supply network. The Bloom platform also builds vertically-integrated long-term, medium-term and short-term sales, demand and supply plans aligned with the company’s strategy.
Markets are moving fast, and demand is volatile. Agility, reactivity, adaptability: these are some key qualities competitive companies must have. The global strategy must be closely monitored and confronted with the actual performance and results.
Supply network optimisation consists of defining an optimal configuration of available supply chain facilities: plants, warehouses, available suppliers, outsourcers and Third-Party Logistics (3PL). It allows the definition of inner capacities, negotiation of contracts with third parties and definition of sourcing
Customers’ demand diversification and economic uncertainties have started to put a huge strain on supply chains. Finding the balance between serving customers and managing costs is more complex than ever. This challenge is one reason why the supply chain is an essential element for companies to be at the edge of competitiveness.
