Release 5.0. SMART Demand Forecast: A New Level of Demand Management

In today’s world, where forecast accuracy directly impacts profitability and competitiveness, SMART Demand Forecast continues to evolve. With Release 5.0, we have significantly expanded the solution’s capabilities, making it more intuitive, flexible, and accessible for companies of any size.

This release delivers major UI enhancements, extended analytics, and new functionality that enable users to track product lifecycle directly in the interface, manage promotional activities, and generate forecasts for companies operating across multiple markets.

Redesigned Navigation

We have completely reworked the navigation system, introducing a modern side menu with quick access to profile, settings, and key pages. Users can now see indicators of active processes and explanations for blocked pages, as well as switch between collapsed and expanded menu modes. This improves navigation speed, increases system transparency, and provides a unified, modern look and feel for the interface.

New Product Management Page

This release introduces the Assortment Management page for controlling product lifecycle and creating dummy products. With advanced filters, product history, and an interactive Gantt chart, users can easily monitor product statuses over time. This simplifies assortment planning, reduces the risk of errors, and accelerates business processes through automation and flexibility.

New Promo Tool Page

We have added a unified interface for creating, editing, and analyzing promotional campaigns. The Promo Tool enables users to manage promotions and discounts while minimizing manual work. It supports building various promotional scenarios — from campaign periods and product selections to discount depths — to model their impact on demand.

With these new capabilities, users can test different scenarios, compare their effectiveness, and optimize promotions that directly influence sales and customer engagement.

Interface Localization

With added support for Polish and Spanish, SMART Demand Forecast becomes even more accessible to a broader user base. Each user can select their preferred language in their profile, and the system will automatically adapt the interface and analytics accordingly. This opens up new market opportunities and improves user satisfaction by providing a familiar language environment.

New Levels of Business Aggregation

Release 5.0 introduces forecasting capabilities across multiple countries as well as by different sales types. This enables international companies to generate forecasts for several markets simultaneously and to analyze cross-channel relationships within a single store in greater detail. Such granularity expands analytical horizons and supports more accurate decision-making by showing how demand shifts under the influence of various factors — seasonality, promotions, cannibalization, or weather — across online and offline sales, deliveries, and more.

Optimization of Core Computational Processes

We have migrated all computational processes to Databricks Workflows, reducing execution time and lowering resource costs. In addition, this new approach improves customization options for process runs and enhances overall system scalability.

Adaptive Data Display

Different business departments operate with different planning horizons: manufacturing and logistics typically work with monthly timelines, while sales and finance may rely on weekly periods. The most complex situation arises when a week overlaps two months, creating a risk of distortions in forecasts and plans. Clear aggregation rules are therefore essential to ensure data accuracy and consistency across departments. With the new functionality introduced in this release, the system automatically adjusts data distribution based on seasonality and the logic of your operating period, ensuring accurate monthly reports without skews or inconsistencies.

SMART Demand Forecast 5.0 is a major step forward — helping companies forecast with higher precision, manage data more efficiently, and scale their business faster.