Predictive Forecasting: Shopify + SAP

Can you trust your forecast for next month? askotter reads Shopify and SAP together and answers it for your business, by text.

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the short answer

How does predictive forecasting with Shopify and SAP work for a small business?

askotter reads Shopify and SAP 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 Shopify: Orders and revenue, Product performance, Customer profiles and segments.
From SAP: Financial accounting, Inventory and materials management, Production planning.
Status: Both connect today.
Not for: Replacing Shopify or SAP. Both keep working exactly as they do now.

the problem

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 Shopify and SAP side by side, so it can forecast with live numbers from every connected account.

A person checks the result before it reaches you. This is part of our conversion rate optimization work.

matching the records

How Shopify and SAP records line up

Shopify and SAP 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 Shopify that means daily order counts by product and inventory levels. From SAP it means order history by material and region.

What each tool sees on its ownShow less

Shopify on its own

Shopify sees the order and the landing page. It has no view of the ad impressions, emails or searches that came before that session.

Timing. Shopify writes each order the moment it is placed, including the landing page and referring site of the session that bought.

Access. Read-only access through the Shopify Admin API, approved from the store admin.

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.

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questions

Questions about Shopify + SAP

Do I need a developer to connect Shopify and SAP?

No. Most accounts connect with a sign-in, and the rest take a file export.

How is askotter's Predictive Forecasting different from what Shopify shows on its own?

Shopify only sees its own numbers. askotter reads Shopify and SAP together and can answer the question: Can you trust your forecast for next month?

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