B2B2

B2B2? B2B2?  B2BB?

What are we talking about here?  A variation on the term Business-to-Business?  Business-to-Business-Squared?  Business-to-Big-Business?  Business-to-Busy-Business?  No, nothing that clever.

The title for this posting simply stands for Back-to-Business-Blogging.  My last business blog posting was in January 20, 2012.  January 20, 2012?  Oh my, that is practically six months!  That is an eternity in the world of blogging.

What happened?

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November 27, 2011 DemandCaster Updates

We have made a number of updates over the weekend that are summarized below:

• Launched Enhanced Event Modeling: We have completely revamped our event modeling process. We will be posting a detailed overview in this blog shortly.


• Modified View of Monthly Buckets in Forecast Table: We have modified the behavior of the forecast table to change to monthly buckets when the forecast graph is changed from a weekly to monthly bucket view. Previously the forecast table would only show the view in weekly buckets regardless of the forecast buckets or graph view selected.


• Changed Multi-Item Linking Behavior: Previously when linking a new item to an old item (supercession), the history table for the new item would show the customer history of the old item. Now the history shows the old item as a single column in history. This allows the user to much easily view where the old history stops and the new history starts. This is particularly helpful when there are multiple items used to form the history of the new item.


• Changed a Few Table Names: Vendors are now Suppliers, Product Classes are now Product Categories, Product Codes are now Tags.


• Locked Unknown Supplier: When an item has no designated supplier assigned (i.e. an internally manufactured item), DemandCaster assigns a default supplier name “unknown.” If a user disable the “unknown” vendor via the data maintenance, all items linked to “unknown” would also be disabled. We have now locked the ability to disable the supplier “unknown” in order to prevent any active item from unintentionally being disabled.


• Modified Selection Interface Item Link Behavior: Previously when clicking on the forecast DemandCaster icon to the left of the item number in the selection interface, the user would navigate to the items forecast list. We have changed the navigation behavior so that the user is directed to the latest forecast for the item. If the user would like to view the items previous forecast, they may click on the previous forecast link in the items forecast detail tool bar.


• Added Current Cost to Two Analytics: We have added the items current cost to stocking and reorder point analytics and reports.

Feel free to contact us with any questions by emailing our support site or calling us at 866-865-2714 between 9:00 am to 6:00 pm CST Monday through Friday.

DemandCaster Server Upgrade and Support Features

We are pleased to announce two significant enhancements to DemandCaster.

Over the weekend we upgraded our servers to improve the performance of DemandCaster. We have added faster processor speeds and increased the memory. We have done this in an effort to maintain and improve the overall DemandCaster user experience. Over the coming weeks we will be introducing further enhancements to improve the responsive of our many user interfaces.

We have also started populating our knowledge base with DemandCaster “How To” articles and general information. This is important because much of this information was previously located in the workbooks and other documents we used for training. Admittedly, we were unsure how best to share these articles. Our customers were accustomed to giving us a call or sending an email to ask a question. Though we welcomed this type of personal service, we realized that many of our customers would also appreciate the ability to answer their questions in a self service manner. As a result, we have begun to publish these articles directly to our support site.

For our DemandCaster users, we have integrated access to these articles from within DemandCaster. You can read how to directly access the help desk articles and initiate support tickets from within DemandCaster in this knowledge base posting.

We have also decided to make our knowledge base articles available to the public to allow everyone to read how DemandCaster operates. We are not afraid to share our approach because even though our customers love our technology, they love our service more. It is what our clients value most about DemandCaster and Cadent Resources.

We hope you will find these two enhancement of value. As always, please do not hesitate to let us know your questions, comments, or concerns

New Features: Automated Outlier Removal,

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DemandCaster Suggested Order Groupings and Trend Indices

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