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Seasonal Demand Planning
Mastering Seasonal Demand with AI-Powered Planning
Seasonal peaks and promotional events are critical to your business, but their volatile nature often leads to inaccurate forecasts, costly stockouts, or crippling overstock. PartnerLinQ's AI-Powered Seasonal Demand Planning transforms this challenge, moving your business from reactive guesswork to proactive, data-driven precision.
Our solution provides a dedicated framework to handle the nuances of seasonal trends, ensuring your business is always prepared for the next surge in demand.
PartnerLinQ provides complete ecosystem that delivers on this vision through four core capability pillars:
End-to-End
Connectivity
Our out-of-the-box connectors integrate with your ERP, CRM, and SCM systems, and pull in external and partner data, creating a holistic view of the demand signal.
Granular Control
Towers
PartnerLinQ's intuitive control towers empower your teams with the autonomy to fine-tune AI models and integrate real-world factors with agility.
Agentic AI
Built-in platform AI agents help your organization continuously evolve its demand planning by assisting in retaining of AI models and providing recommendations, enabling an unprecedented pace of adaptation to changing market conditions.
The Composable Enterprise
As a composable platform, PartnerLinQ puts all capabilities directly in the hands of your teams, allowing them to move fast and digitally evolve your processes and solutions in-house with greater autonomy.
Features & Capabilities
PartnerLinQ provides a robust set of features to support your immediate and future planning goals, seamlessly integrating with other supply chain functions and extending to your external ecosystem.
AI-Driven Seasonal & Event Forecasting: Our AI models automatically detects and complex seasonality and event-based demand patterns. It can learn from multiple years of data to accurately predict demand for recurring events like holidays, product launches, or annual sales.
Granular, Week-Level Planning: Plan at the most granular levels—down to the SKU, location, and week—to precisely capture demand spikes and allocate inventory where it's needed most.
"What-If" Scenario Analysis: Run unlimited demand scenarios to test alternative strategies. Model the impact of a new marketing campaign, a competitor's promotion, or a potential weather event to identify the most profitable path forward.
Promotional Planning & Uplift Modeling: Seamlessly integrate promotional calendars and marketing activities into the planning process. Our AI models analyze and quantify the expected demand uplift from each promotion, providing a single, consolidated view.
Downstream Planning Integration: The final demand signal is seamlessly integrated with your ERP and WMS systems to drive execution, ensuring that your procurement, production, and logistics plans are perfectly aligned with the forecast.
Market & External Signals: Automatically ingest real-time external data—such as weather forecasts, social media trends, competitor promotions, and market sentiment—to dynamically adjust your seasonal forecast and stay ahead of the curve.
Our platform ensures real-time collaboration is effortless, consolidating marketing plans, sales forecasts, and operational constraints into a single, unified view to react quickly to unexpected changes and prevent silos during your most critical periods.
Unified Workbooks: Enable collaborative forecasting with role-based inputs and transparent adjustments, bringing sales, marketing, finance, and supply chain teams into a single shared environment.
Partner Collaboration: Extend planning and decision-making to your external trading partners, providing a single source of truth for all stakeholders.
Real-Time Visibility: Supports real-time commenting, transparent overrides, and plan versioning to ensure full traceability and accountability for all adjustments.
Advanced Scenario Planning: Run "what-if" scenarios for different demand, price, and promotion assumptions to test alternative strategies.
AI-Powered Recommendations: Leverage AI to generate meeting-ready insights and provide recommendations for forecast overrides, accelerating consensus and confident decision-making.
AI-Powered Natural Language Search: PartnerLinQ.IQ agent allows teams to find critical insights and data points instantly using natural language queries, enabling faster decision-making across the entire planning lifecycle.
Flexible Visualizations: Gain deep insights with visualizations, charts, plots, and customizable dimensions and metrics to understand forecast performance and trends.
Technology
A solution’s technology vision must align with your organization’s future aspirations. PartnerLinQ’s modern, composable architecture ensures a planning solution that is not only powerful today but will scale to meet your evolving needs.
Cloud-Native & Multi-Cloud Architecture: Our scalable, cloud-native architecture is built for demanding planning cycles, ensuring fast processing and seamless performance. We support multi-cloud environments, providing the flexibility to align with your organization’s cloud strategy.
Composability: Built on an API-first and microservices architecture, our platform provides the extensibility and flexibility to adapt to your unique needs, helping you achieve a truly composable enterprise.
Intelligent Data Applications Framework: Our framework allows you to easily onboard and enrich external data sets and factors with AI-based predictions, creating a richer input signal for your demand planning process and accelerating the evolution of your digital intelligence with ease.
Extensive Prebuilt Adapters: We offer prebuilt, composable integration adapters for over 80 enterprise platforms, including SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Business Central, Manhattan Active Omni, and Salesforce.
Seamless Data Flow: Our bi-directional integration capabilities with ERP, POS, Online Commerce, and WMS systems ensure a continuous flow of demand data for a single source of truth.
Trading Partner Network: Our native integration with your trading partner network allows for real-time data capture, ensuring your plans are always informed by the most current market signals.
Custom Algorithm & Model Development: The platform provides a unified environment for in-house development of custom algorithms and models, giving your teams the tools to continuously evolve the solution.
Third-Party Analytic Integration: Easily integrate third-party analytics and leverage public APIs to expand the planning model and connect with external data sources.
Industry Knowledge Graph and Data Models: ParnterLinQ’s industry data models and supply chain knowledge graph instantly enable out of the box reporting, search and planning capabilities to a whole new level of sophistication and extensibility.
User Experience
A powerful solution is only effective if your teams adopt it. PartnerLinQ’s intuitive and unified user experience is designed to drive rapid adoption, increase productivity, and empower users with the insights they need to make confident decisions.
Unified Experience: All planning activities—from data ingestion and analytics to demand planning and workflow configuration—take place within a single, unified environment, eliminating the need for separate tools.
Interactive Planning Grids: Highly configurable and interactive planning grids allow users to personalize dashboards and visualizations, ensuring data is presented in the most meaningful way for each role.
Generative AI Insights: Our generative AI provides narrative summaries of forecast drivers, risks, and opportunities, helping planners and stakeholders understand the "why" behind the numbers.
Natural Language Query: PartnerLinQ.IQ allows planners to ask questions using natural language to search for insights and share them with stakeholders via interactive dashboards, fostering transparency and trust in the forecast.
Autonomous Updates: The platform can apply autonomous plan updates based on predefined thresholds and exceptions, freeing up your team to focus on high-value tasks.
Recommendations & Actions: The system provides actionable recommendations that can be applied with a single click, automating routine decisions and accelerating the planning cycle.
Implementation Advantage
Unlike traditional, rigid approaches, PartnerLinQ enables agile and rapid implementation. With our composable platform, prebuilt solution templates, supply chain knowledge graph and proven AI models, your company can go live in as little as six weeks, evolve fast, and achieve unprecedented speed to value. Our modern approach makes a highly sophisticated demand planning solution highly affordable, eliminating the long timelines and prohibitive costs of traditional enterprise software. Our proven implementation process is designed for a fast, seamless transition:
- Agile Business Process Mapping: We begin with a collaborative business process analysis and mapping. We use standard templates that can be quickly configured to fit your unique needs and workflows, ensuring the solution fits your organization like a glove.
- Streamlined Data Onboarding: Our composable integration capabilities and prebuilt adapters simplify and accelerate the data loading process. This agile data ingestion, combined with our industry-specific semantic model, ensures data flows to the planning grids in a fluid and streamlined manner.
- Configurable Security & Control: The implementation includes the setup of robust, role-based security and controls. This ensures that downstream integrations and associated actions are tightly governed and aligned with your business rules.
- Expert Guidance & Self-Service: Our expert consulting team leads the implementation and provides comprehensive user enablement. This focuses on building self-service capabilities within your team, ensuring they have the tools and knowledge for continuous digital evolution.
End Result & Business Benefit
PartnerLinQ’s agile implementation process leads directly to rapid value realization and tangible business benefits, including:
- Accelerated Time-to-Value: Go-live happens in weeks, not months or years, allowing you to start realizing ROI and competitive advantage faster.
- Unprecedented Efficiency: Automation of routine tasks, data ingestion, and security configuration allows your teams to focus on strategic planning rather than manual work.
- Scalable Digital Evolution: The composable foundation and self-service enablement empower your business to continuously adapt and evolve without constant reliance on external consultants.
- Reduced Risk: A streamlined, predictable implementation process minimizes disruption and ensures a smooth transition to our new planning environment.
Pricing Model
PartnerLinQ provides overall business value and industry specific cutting technology solutions for both current and future needs. We offer a modern pricing model that provides predictability and transparency, empowering your business to invest with confidence.
- Tiered, Usage-Based Pricing: Our model is simple and transparent. You only pay for the tier that matches your actual transaction volume each month, so you are only ever paying for what you use.
- Unified & Transparent Cost: Our unified pricing covers all core capabilities—including integration, data processing, the planning application, and the embedded AI—eliminating hidden costs.
- Simplified Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): By consolidating all key functions into a single, usage-based model, we eliminate the hidden costs of managing multiple vendors and disparate systems, ensuring your investment delivers both immediate and sustainable business value.
PartnerLinQ gives you the precision, agility, and control to turn seasonal volatility into a competitive advantage. Contact us to schedule a demo and see the difference.
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