Learn how North American retailers can maximize SAP UDF with proven best practices, real-world insights, and actionable guidance to elevate forecasting performance.

SAP Unified Demand Forecast -
Accurate forecasting has never been more critical

For north american retailers, ensuring product availability across every channel at the right time and place is critical. Customers expect immediate access, while growing complexity in assortments, promotions, and omnichannel fulfillment increases pressure on forecasting accuracy. Errors in demand models can quickly result in lost sales, excess inventory, and margin loss.

SAP Unified Demand Forecast (UDF) addresses this challenge with highly accurate, daily forecasts across all channels. Built on advanced statistical methods, powered by SAP HANA, and integrated into the SAP CAR landscape, UDF enables better planning, replenishment, and demand transparency for north american retailers.

While SAP UDF is already widely adopted across Europe, many retailers in the United States have yet to unlock its full potential.

Benefits of SAP UDF

Proven Business Benefits retailers achieved with SAP UDF

 

  • Global experience from 20+ SAP UDF engagements across multiple markets and retail environments

  • Forecast accuracy improvements of 8+ percentage points, reaching up to 35% in key product categories

  • Inventory holding reduced by 8.6M AUD within six months through improved demand planning and replenishment

  • Seamless rollout with zero operational disruption, ensuring continuous business operations throughout the implementation

What you'll learn

Webinar: Why leading Retailers are turning to SAP UDF for Forecasting

 

  • The key forecasting challenges facing today’s retailers — and how SAP UDF addresses them

  • Why retailers worldwide have successfully adopted the solution and the value they achieve

  • A focused solution overview, including core functionality, business benefits, implemen- tation approach, and time to value

  • Real customer success stories and lessons learned

Why attend

Exclusive Webinar designed for North American Retailers

 

  • Proven success: SAP UDF already widely adopted by retailers across the world delivering measurable business value

  • Valuable insights from European implementations and established best practices

  • Actionable guidance for both first-time evaluation and optimization of existing SAP UDF setups

  • Untapped potential for SAP UDF in the North American retail market

Webinar: Why leading Retailers are turning to SAP UDF for Forecasting
Wednesday, March 25th, 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET

The implementation of Unified Demand Forecasting has genuinely transformed how we serve our customers. By integrating this solution, we’ve created a more coherent and optimised technology platform that’s not only grown our capabilities, but also delivered precise, actionable insights.
This shift represents a critical step in our ongoing journey to not just meet, but exceed, the evolving demands of the retail market, ensuring we continue to innovate and serve the South Island as best as we possibly can.

Foodstuffs

Shayne Tong,

Chief Digital Officer

[English]

We extremely value retailsolutions for their expertise in helping organisations like ours to maximise the return on investment from SAP CAR and SAP F&R implementation.

We are continuing an ongoing engagement with them to achieve further system efficiencies.

API

Kosta Ouskov,

Operational Excellence Manager –
Systems Optimisation

What Foodstuffs South Island says about working with retailsolutions
 

In this video, Shayne Tong, Chief Digital Officer at Foodstuffs South Island, shares how their long-standing partnership with retailsolutions has delivered real impact — from improving systems to enhancing the way they serve customers every day.

Watch the full video to hear why this collaboration matters – today and for the future.