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sofco launch Forecast Fast the functionally rich, rapid deployed Demand Planning tool

February 2022

sofco, a leading provider of integrated and collaborative End-to-End Planning Solutions for the Consumer Goods, Manufacturing and Retail sectors, are delighted to announce the successful launch of Forecast Fast.

Drawing upon experience gained from over 20 years’ in the deployment of planning solutions, sofco’s experienced team of Application & Technical Consultants, Solution Architects, and Account Managers created Forecast Fast, a fixed price, rapidly deployed, cloud-based Demand Planning tool that is rich in functionality for the Consumer Goods, Manufacturing and Retail sectors.

sofco’s CEO, Keith Noble comments “The goal of Forecast Fast is to help companies grow their business by providing valuable information at a low monthly cost with a manageable software growth plan to enable more functionality to be added as and when required. Forecast Fast will give Planners the tools to produce an improved and reliable demand forecast, the starting point for all the successive planning activities. We are incredibly proud of our new application which complements our award winning End-to-End Planning suite, well done to everyone involved”.

Growing companies have the choice of 3 options, Lite, Plus and Professional, all supported in multi-browser and multi-language environments:

Find out more: forecastfast.co.uk

Trusted by our clients

“Greencore is involved in multiple categories, supplying a diverse range of products with different characteristics that require very different manufacturing processes. We selected sofco as they have an End-to-End planning and execution system that can be configured easily to fit these disparate demands. Our approach is much more sophisticated and collaborative now.”

Chris Chestney

IT Business Partner, Greencore

“What impressed us most about the sofco people was they understood our business, listened, and would bring a lot of experience to the project. They brought solid solutions to the issues we presented them with. It was clear from the outset that we were going to be able to work well together as a team and deliver this project. That is exactly what has happened.”

Barbara Van den Berg

Project Manager, Van Geloven

British Bakels

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