Give us your toughest portfolio and planning problems. We know how to solve them.

Whether you are looking for quick wins or transformational change, Digital Tempus uniquely blends planning specialization, an analytical approach, deep knowledge of enterprise applications, change management expertise, executive perspective and thought-provoking leadership to get you there. With a focus on Planning for Growth, Digital Tempus helps global companies implement demand-driven business strategies and improve working capital efficiency through process optimization, talent development, and effective analysis of demand data.  We deliver step-changes in business planning and forecasting performance through our Consulting and Business Intelligence Services.

At Digital Tempus, we do more than ask you questions about your people, processes and technology and deliver recommendations supported by anecdotes. We utilize a deep analytical approach to model planning structures and demand data, evaluate the information with our propriety Business Intelligence capability, and collaboratively work with you to evaluate fact-based scenarios, understand performance potential, and target improvement opportunities.  We rely heavily on a team of Principals, who are seasoned, insightful professionals, and structured analysis using our Business Intelligence capabilities, rather than a people-intensive, brute-force approach to analysis. This enables us to scale our expertise to fit your global needs, deliver insights supported by facts, and accelerate benefits.

The high-impact consulting services that we provide include:

Strategy Development – Demand-driven.  The concept makes sense -- move from an ‘Everything to Everybody’ approach to a tailored, customer-driven model.  As a result, be more responsive, provide better service, and lower your inventory and costs.  But how do you get started?  Digital Tempus can help you to figure out the right demand-driven business strategy and operating model for your business.

Capability Assessment – You’re responsible for planning. Your CEO is preaching ‘growth,’ but are you prepared?   You’re hitting your customer service goals, but it’s because your team is so good at firefighting and last-minute execution.  In fact, it doesn’t feel like your planners do much planning at all. Sales have started to rebound, but inventories are up too, and forecast accuracy isn’t where it needs to be.  You know that the big-ticket planning system implemented a couple of years back isn’t being used to its potential, as spreadsheets are everywhere.  You’ve been hearing about things that your competitors are doing (like demand sensing, demand shaping, customer-level planning, using downstream data, Integrated Business Planning, or inventory optimization), and you know you should be doing some of these things, too.  But where do you start?  Your organization needs to be tuned for Planning for Growth, and Digital Tempus can help.  We’re planning specialists, and we’ll assess your business planning capabilities, determine your performance potential, and lay out a prioritized roadmap to help you reach it.

Detailed Demand and Portfolio Analysis – It’s one thing to look at a demand forecast and calculate accuracy.  It’s another to look at a demand pattern and understand what it’s trying to tell you about your business.  Digital Tempus helps you to understand the story behind the numbers.  We help you to understand the types of variability driving your business, as well as what’s causing the variability and how to align strategies, plans and approaches to manage it.  Because when it comes to managing your portfolio, one size doesn’t fit all.

Advanced Modeling Services – Monthly forecast accuracy of 65-75% at the Item/DC level -- that’s what most companies who forecast demand using historical orders or shipments will achieve, even while layering in some guesses as to the impact of price changes, new products or trade deals.  Best case.  The reality is that there are many factors that impact demand, and many sources of external or market data available.  Which ones have the most impact on demand for your products, customers and markets?  What are the best planning structure, process and set of algorithms to leverage this data to improve performance by 10-20 percentage points?  Digital Tempus can help.  With sophisticated predictive models that address the impact of price, promotion, customer loyalty, weather, other external data and market influences,  we help you to determine and realize your forecasting performance potential.

Integrated Business Planning (IBP) / Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) Design and Implementation – Whether you need to convince your company’s leadership of the value of IBP or S&OP, need to address the change management and organizational issues required for a successful implementation, or need to assess, design and deploy the detailed processes and systems, Digital Tempus delivers.  We uniquely blend the ability to communicate with executives and roll up our sleeves to hash out the details with the project team, while providing the fact-based analysis and insights to drive a successful, demand-driven IBP/S&OP Process.

Enterprise Planning Applications Services – You’ve heard the stories. The stories about companies that have invested tens of millions of dollars in enterprise planning applications from ERP or supply chain vendors, but still haven’t realized performance improvements.   Perhaps they implemented the system years ago, but it hasn’t kept up with the changing needs of the business.  Or maybe the algorithms aren’t well understood, so the business and the users don’t believe, or use, the numbers.  Maybe your company is one of these stories.  If it is, Digital Tempus can help.  We enable you to achieve a return on your investment by configuring or re-configuring enterprise applications and business intelligence technologies to support strategic and operational planning processes, while addressing the change management issues that often derail implementations.