Product Comparison
Both Forecast Pro and Forecast Pro TRAC are powerful, accurate, easy-to-use business forecasting tools – the right edition depends on your business needs.
Compare the features in this table to find which Forecast Pro edition is right for your organization, or contact us to speak with one of our forecasting experts.
| Key Capabilities | Forecast Pro | Forecast Pro TRAC |
|---|---|---|
| Data Capacity | ||
| Number of Items You Can Forecast Per Project | no limit | no limit |
| Command Line Operation | X | X |
| Tools for Creating Accurate Forecasts | ||
| Broad range of forecasting methods | X | X |
| Machine learning models | X | X |
| Automatic “best pick” model selection | X | X |
| Custom model specification at any level | X | X |
| Overrides for Adding Judgment to Forecasts | ||
| Up to 11 retainable override rows | X | X |
| Overrides at any level with reconciliation | X | X |
| Override commenting with audit reports | X | X |
| Team Forecasting | ||
| Review colleagues’ projects & make changes | X | X |
| Excel-based collaboration | X | |
| Forecast Pro-based collaboration | X | |
| Flexibility for Working with Forecasts & Reporting | ||
| Numeric reports and graphic displays | X | X |
| Inclusion of history and/or forecasted values | X | X |
| Customizable reports with filtering | X | X |
| Safety stock and reorder points | X | X |
| ABC/Pareto analysis | X | X |
| Multiple units of measure | X | |
| Hierarchy “Shuffling” (multiple hierarchies) | X | |
| Time fences | X | |
| Status assignments | X | |
| Product mapping | X | |
| Forecast Accuracy Measurement & Tracking | ||
| Out-of-sample simulation | X | X |
| Forecast archive database | X | |
| Forecast Value Add reporting | X | |
| Waterfall reports for analyzing accuracy | X | |
| Exception Reporting | ||
| Forecast vs. actual reports | X | |
| Forecast vs. history reports | X | |
| Forecast vs. archive reports | X | |
| Forecast range reports | X | |
| Waterfall reports | X | |
| Customizable Forecast Worksheets | ||
| Integrate multiple forecasts for S&OP | X | |
| Import pertinent outside information | X | |
| Calculate new rows based on existing rows | X |
“Forecast Pro is so easy to use that we were able to create forecasts on the first day that it was installed. Within the first year, Forecast Pro helped us to reduce our forecast error to single digits.”
WENDELL HULL
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS
“Forecast Pro is one of the quickest yet accurate forecasting tools that I have ever come across.”
OSMAN MUSTAFA
FRITO-LAY, INC.
“Our forecasts are used for everything from planning/scheduling all the way up to revenue projection by the executive team. We have a full compliment of Forecast Pro products at Oberto.”
ERIC KAPINOS
OBERTO SAUSAGE COMPANY
