Garvis Updates and New Features
September 2021
What’s New:
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Garvis Advanced Forecasting Engine is now live!
- Garvis can now link sales patterns to events & promotions in the past and, and use a future looking event calendar to create more intelligent forecasts for the future.
- Garvis can also model past and future Covid lockdowns to create a picture of possible Covid related scenarios in the future and what it could mean for your business.
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Garvis enables you to visually analyze sales and forecast data on the Workbench screen, while simultaneously letting you dive into the numbers.
- A more intuitive layout and filter options mean that you can hone in on your precise view of the data.
- An updated graph lets you understand the components of your demand better - toggle between the Seasonality, Promotion and Event components against the forecast, all in one space.
- A compact workbench table lets you see varied components at different aggregate levels and for multiple time frames.
- Garvis engine can now capture a point or range of points outside the normal threshold as Exceptions in your data. You can
- resolve exceptions ( either partially or completely) at both family or single child exception level.
- assign an event (Inventory clearance, Promos, Price Change etc.) to an exception.
- step through exceptions or navigate exceptions at different hierarchies.
- Garvis now enables you to make bulk Adjustments . You can
- make multiple adjustments at one go and see the updated graph instantly.
- view the initial and overridden Sales & Forecast values for an easy comparison.
- assign an event to an adjustment.
- Garvis now gives you the means to upload your Event calendar directly through the app. You can
- see the graphical representation of events and impact of events on past and future.
- slice-n-dice event impact across hierarchy.
- view the duration of the impact for each event grouped by category or as an individual event.
- Garvis now empowers you by giving you transparency around the AI Engine through
- displaying engine capabilities
- hierarchies (view pattern recognition config, forecasting config)
- components and effects of events, promotions and other demand components
What’s Next:
Keep an eye out for the following with our next release
- Performance Dashboard to track metrics.
- Ability to Event data to Exceptions and Adjustments to enable better forecasts.
- And a more interactive Event Library