Enhanced Workspace
A fast planning grid with forecast, statistical baseline, customer forecast, and prior approved side by side. Choose columns, filter, and search without leaving the screen.
BUILT FOR MICROSOFT DYNAMICS 365 BUSINESS CENTRAL
Smarter demand plans. Inside Business Central.
Paralax360 Demand Planning gives planners a working grid at the grain they actually plan at — customer, location, item, week — with live order variance, explainable recommendations, and a full audit trail. The approved plan publishes straight to the Business Central demand forecast.
Customer & Location GrainOrder VarianceDemand EventsAudit TrailFood & BeverageManufacturing
THE PLANNING GAP
Business Central forecasts by item. Your customers order by DC.
The standard demand forecast has no customer dimension. So the moment one retailer takes the same item into six distribution centres at six different run rates, the plan moves into a spreadsheet — and the spreadsheet quietly becomes the system of record.
Paralax360 Demand Planning keeps the full grain — customer, demand location, item, variant, bucket — and collapses it only at the moment of publishing. Nothing is lost on the way in.
KEY CAPABILITIES
Built around how planners actually work a week.
Order Intelligence
Open sales orders resolved to the right customer and demand location through ship-to mapping, bucketed against the plan, with past-due handled by policy rather than guesswork.
Variance You Can Act On
Orders against forecast, colour-coded to your own thresholds. Coverage gaps surface as recommendations you accept in a click — no switching views to retype a number.
Demand Events
Promotions, assortment changes, distribution gains, and phase-outs recorded with dates, reason codes, and notes — so next year’s planner knows why the number moved.
Forecast History
One line per quantity change: old value, new value, who, when, source, and reason. Reason codes can be optional, required on large changes, or always required.
Publish to Business Central
The approved plan writes to the standard demand forecast, aggregated to item, variant, and BC location. Every publish keeps an immutable snapshot you can point at later.
PLANNER IN CONTROL
The plan changes when a planner decides it changes.
Recommendations are explainable rules, not a black box. Each one shows the evidence that produced it — the forecast, the orders, the gap — and nothing reaches the plan until a planner accepts it.
- Coverage gaps where booked orders exceed the plan.
- Unconsumed near-term forecast, bounded so it never fires on weeks the orders simply have not reached yet.
- Data quality flags for blocked items, unresolvable prices, and invalid unit conversions.
- Freeze windows and reason code policy apply to every acceptance, including bulk.
HOW A CHANGE MOVES THROUGH THE SYSTEM
From open order to published forecast, with the reasoning kept.
1
See the evidence
Forecast 478, open orders 700, a 46 percent coverage gap in week 26. The numbers sit on the row, not behind a dialog.
2
Accept, adjust, or reject
Take the suggested quantity, override it, or reject it. Rejected suggestions stay rejected and do not return tomorrow morning.
3
Record why
Reason codes attach to the change and land in forecast history, alongside the demand event that explains the season.
4
Publish with confidence
Preflight catches unmapped locations before anything is written, and an immutable snapshot is kept for every publish.
WHY PARALAX360
Demand planning built from Business Central reality.
Connected planning platforms live outside your ERP, which means a second system to log into, a sync window where the two disagree, and a separate subscription to justify. Paralax360 Demand Planning is native: Business Central tables, Business Central permissions, Business Central dimensions.
- No second platform, no nightly sync, no separate login.
- Designed alongside food and beverage teams whose plans change inside the same week they ship.
- Installs from AppSource into the Business Central you already own.
- Every quantity change carries who, what, from what, and why.
READY TO GET THE PLAN OUT OF THE SPREADSHEET?
Let’s look at your demand planning process together.
Whether you are implementing Business Central, migrating from a legacy ERP, or replacing a forecasting workbook nobody can safely hand over, Paralax360 can help align demand planning with how your Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, or perishables operation actually runs.