Foundation Forecasting™

Overview

Keystone’s next-generation forecasting system for discrete manufacturers. It serves as the single, authoritative forecast that connects market demand, supply execution, and financial outcomes—replacing fragmented planning with enterprise-wide alignment.

Built for complex, multi-echelon supply chains, Foundation Forecasting^TM delivers fast, probabilistic, decision-ready forecasts that integrate directly into your existing operational and planning systems.

Applications

Overview

Generate accurate, decision specific forecasts at all levels of your business - from short-horizon replenishment to long term market outlooks - with the speed and scale required for collaborative planning.

Large SKU portfolios spanning finished goods and raw materials
‍High service-level expectations (95–99% OTIF)
‍Lumpy, intermittent, or periodic demand patterns
Long lead times and costly changeovers
High variability in order size and timing
Need end-to-end integration from demand to supply execution to financial planning‍

Push forecasts directly into ERP, S&OP / IBP, and WMS systems

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Unique Features

Intermittent demand & periodic pattern recognition
Replenishment modeling
Quantile Forecasting: Risk aware planning based on uncertainty
Demand Sensing: Real-time responsiveness to short-term signals
Pooling Across Customers, Products, and Geographies
Causal Inference for Commercial Optimization

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Unique Benefits

2-3 reduction in forecasting error over legacy methods
Decision-oriented design for inventory, labor and revenue planning
Rapid forecast creation & deployment
Reusable, extensible data foundation
Handles fine-grain noise, supports executive-level strategy
Eliminate spreadsheets and manual handoffs

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About the Deep Enterprise™

Enterprises are at an inflection point. Operational and technology-driven silos hinder performance. Fragmented data, legacy Enterprise Resource Planning systems, and non-scientific decision-making has left businesses struggling to keep pace — case in point we have witnessed a 30% attrition in the Fortune 500 over the past decade.

In global supply chains, demand planners are not able to perform high-grain forecasts across SKUs, markets and seasons. As a result, inventory managers make stocking decisions based on low-fidelity insights. On commercial teams, marketers struggle to understand which promotional, pricing and media decisions will have the greatest impact. In finance, we see FP&A struggle to stitch cross-functional forecast together. Despite their interdependence, the main operating functions of a business remain disconnected.

The AI revolution changes everything. Our mission is to help our customers transform into Deep Enterprises. We define the "Deep Enterprise" as a company that embeds neural network-based AI into the core of it's decision-making infrastructure. This is the natural next step from digital transformation and it promises operational improvement, optimized financial performance and a balance of immediate results and long-term value creation.

If your enterprise is in the automotive, consumer packaged goods, financial services, healthcare & pharmaceuticals, life sciences, manufacturing & industrial goods, hospitality, or telecommunications sectors, contact us to learn more.