Clarity in planning. Confidence in acting. Turning data into decisions.
Sales Planning & Forecasting
VISTAlution Sales Planning & Forecasting offers you, as an automotive supplier, an unparalleled view of your company’s future - with a level of precision and depth of detail that was previously unattainable.
Experience a planning environment that gives you a complete understanding of your entire supply chain - from individual bill-of-materials components to the finished vehicle - across the entire project lifecycle.
Discover how transparency and intuitive data management boost efficiency, foster collaboration, and increase motivation within your team.
Challenges to Overcome
Complexity, Interdependencies, and Standards in Sales Planning
Your company manages thousands of part numbers—and that number grows every year. The biggest challenge is maintaining an overview to ensure precise and accurate planning. It’s about assigning parts to the right projects, understanding which components replace others, in which vehicles they are installed, and what impact changes in quantities and prices have.
This data must be continuously maintained, as it forms the foundation of your strategy and decision-making processes. Therefore, changes should be automatically incorporated into your forecasts whenever possible. This can only be achieved if your planning is based on clear standards and all team members work from the same data source.
VISTAlution offers the tools and intelligence to achieve exactly that through a streamlined and efficient process.
Integration
Structure
Forecasting
Versioning
Intelligence
Data Integration
High-quality raw data from internal and external sources - the foundation for accurate forecasts
VISTAlution integrates all relevant data from your ERP system and other sources. This gives you a comprehensive overview of your business’s past and present - combined with a clear view of future projects - all in one central tool.
Based on consistent assumptions, you can analyze your business proactively and make data-driven decisions.
With VISTAlution, you can focus on strategic issues - instead of wasting time on manual data preparation.
VISTAlution supports various data integration methods and formats
Structure and Consolidation
Data Optimization for Intuitive Management
VISTAlution brings intelligent structure to your data - vertically across the entire supply chain and horizontally across the entire project lifecycle.
By consolidating part numbers at the project level, you gain valuable insights that were previously hidden - thereby strengthening communication with your customers and within your team.
You simply plan the total volume of a project - VISTAlution automatically assigns the quantities to the correct part numbers.
Continuous 360° Forecasting
Our unique forecasting approach - designed to help you overcome your planning challenges
Good data is the key to success. With a continuous forecasting process, you’ll always have up-to-date, high-quality data for your planning and decision-making. This allows you to identify cost-saving opportunities across all areas of your business and capitalize on them effectively.
Many companies use different systems and processes for forecasting, budgeting, and strategic planning. This takes time, ties up resources in the sales teams, and often leads to subpar results.
VISTAlution integrates forecasting into a continuous process - combining bottom-up and top-down planning - and thereby resolves all challenges related to data quality and consistency.
In detail:
In the short and medium term, planning can be based on delivery quantities and customer call-offs for individual part numbers. Intelligent algorithms then help optimize the allocation of planned quantities while taking SOP and EOP dates into account.
In the long term, planning can be based on the integrated vehicle production volumes for the respective vehicle model, which are then applied to the corresponding part numbers.
Versions - Forecast, Budget, Strategic Planning
Freeze and compare forecast versions - with just one click
VISTAlution allows you to freeze various planning stages, such as a sales budget or a 9+3 forecast.
These versions can be compared to the live forecast under the same assumptions - variances become immediately apparent and can be traced transparently down to the finest detail.
Any necessary adjustments can be implemented in a targeted manner at any time.
Business Intelligence
Custom BI Dashboards for Strategy, Analysis, and Clear Decision-Making
VISTAlution offers powerful business intelligence features.
Filterable dashboards let you analyze and compare forecast versions - giving you a deep understanding of your business processes and helping you better interpret correlations.
Simply select the widgets you want and place them on your dashboard using drag-and-drop - no programming knowledge required.
Make informed decisions faster - with reliable, real-time data
Sales Reporting & Controlling
Predefined Sales Reports - Get a Better Overview with Just One Click
VISTAlution offers flexible pivot reports for all your needs. Create your own custom reports using drag-and-drop, and save your preferred setup as a favorite.
Compare versions, analyze changes and discrepancies, define exchange rates, or apply different weightings.
With VISTAlution, there are no limits to your data analysis.
Next Level Forecast Alignment
through collaborative planning
Imagine that your sales team updates the sales forecast, and the changes are automatically reflected in a procurement forecast at the bill of materials level and a capacity forecast at the machine level.
All forecasts remain aligned at all times and are broken down to the required level of detail. Time-consuming S&OP meetings based on aggregated data are a thing of the past. Every change is documented and traceable.
VISTAlution achieves this by directly linking bill of materials and production equipment parameters to each project. As early as the initial phases of the APQP process, all relevant inputs are aligned and uniformly structured.
This alignment is maintained throughout the entire project lifecycle, regardless of any changes made.
You work with consistent, reliable data as the basis for strategic decisions.
Essential Planning Features
One-Page Project Overview
Complete project data on a single page - enables easy access, data maintenance, and efficient planning
Lifecycle Key Dates
Understand where you stand in the project lifecycle. Keep key deadlines up to date and consistent across your entire company
Versioning
Freeze different versions of a plan or forecast with just one click. This enables comparisons and a detailed understanding of variances
BI Dashboards
Gain in-depth insights into your business with filterable, dynamic dashboards featuring charts, tables, and KPIs. Helps you stay on top of your planning
Real-time Reports
Reports based on real-time data with a single click. All updates are immediately reflected in your next report
Executive Summaries
Project summaries that can be shared and exported with a single click. Always up to date and in a consistent, clear format
User-friendly Data Input
Consistently predefined fields, helpful input wizards for quantities and prices, and intelligent algorithms for processing your entries. Clearly structured and easy to understand at a glance
Role based User Access
Grant users from other departments access to project data and planning, either with full access or with access restricted by individual access rights