Predictive Forecasting: SAP + POS Systems
Can you trust your forecast for next month? askotter reads SAP and POS Systems together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does predictive forecasting with SAP and POS Systems work for a small business?
askotter reads SAP and POS Systems side by side so it can forecast with live numbers from every connected account. Forecasts that update as your numbers change, with a likely range attached.
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The owner asks follow-up questions by text.
- From SAP
- Financial accounting, Inventory and materials management, Production planning.
- From POS Systems
- Transaction data, Product-level sales, Customer identification.
- Status
- POS Systems is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
- Not for
- Replacing SAP or POS Systems. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
Can you trust your forecast for next month?
Most small business forecasts are last year's numbers in a spreadsheet. They miss that your ad spend doubled this quarter or that the busy season started early.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads SAP and POS Systems side by side, so it can forecast with live numbers from every connected account.
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How SAP and POS Systems records line up
SAP and POS Systems both store the customer's email address. askotter lowercases and trims it on both sides before matching, so the same person shows up as one customer across the two tools.
Shared between the two: the customer email address.
What predictive forecasting uses from each
Predictive forecasting needs enough history to see the seasonal pattern.
From SAP that means order history by material and region. From POS Systems it means daily sales by location and item.
POS Systems is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
What each tool sees on its ownShow less
SAP on its own
SAP holds the booked order, the invoice and the customer master. It has no record of the marketing that produced the order.
Timing. SAP data usually reaches outside systems in scheduled extracts, so it runs as current as the extract schedule your ERP team sets.
Access. Read-only OData services or scheduled exports set up with your ERP team.
POS Systems on its own
A POS sees the sale at the counter. It only knows who bought when the customer gave a phone number or email for a receipt or loyalty account.
Timing. Many POS systems settle and export transactions in end-of-day batches.
Access. The POS vendor's API where one exists, or a daily export.
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