Simple forecast solution for a complex situation
What do you like best?
Fashionboard are very easy to implement. The implementation we made was done in about 1-2 months and the system was almost fully integrated then.
The Planning screen are one of the best things about the system, as it easy to get a overview of all your SKU's.
You have all the information you need in one screen, which gives you a good and easy overview of all data, and saves you a lot of time at the same time, because you are saving a lot of clicks.
Fashionboard also has access to all your sales data and forecast info in cubes behind the system, which mean you can analyze all the data as you want to. This gives you the possibility to see all the things in a bigger picture and make the analyzes you need to do on a weekly basis.
What do you dislike?
One of the main things with Fashionboard is that you get a really good fell of all your items, as you need to monitor them on a weekly or monthly basis.
At the same time this also mean that you need to use the time on the forecast which are necessary, as the system don't generate any automatically forecast for you. So it's maybe not as data heavy as other solutions but on the other hand you feel you are very close to your products, because you need to calculate and use your time on the forecast.
So it's maybe not as data heavy as other software solutions regarding formulas and automatic forecasting based on historic data.
So you need to spend time on all SKU's to hit an accurate forecast but when you do you get a good feeling about the goods flow.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Before it was difficult to get an overview of the whole program, but by integrating Fashionboard, we manage to have access to all the information we needed in one place. Because of that we quickly identified where we could take actions to optimize things in general.
