Case Study: Summer Infant achieves 20% inventory reduction and improved forecast accuracy with Demand Solutions

Forecast Management Software Improves Inventory Planning

Summer Infants, a fast-growing maker of baby products, was struggling with time-consuming, manual forecasting: sales and POS data were compiled in Excel and re-entered into Microsoft Dynamics GP, and forecasts relied on retailer-provided data and gut feel rather than statistics. To address these operational and supply-chain growing pains they chose Demand Solutions, deploying Demand Solutions Forecast Management (and Requirements Planning) to replace their manual process.

Demand Solutions consolidated and cleansed scattered data, linked forecasting to requirements planning, and freed the team to analyze forecasts instead of maintaining them. Since implementing Demand Solutions (six months), Summer Infants reports a ~20% reduction in inventory, a 3–4 week reduction in safety stock for most items, a 30% drop in discontinued/obsolete inventory, and air freight expense trending toward a 50% year‑over‑year improvement, along with markedly improved forecast accuracy and vendor visibility.

Summer Infants

Joe Mabardy

Vice President of Operations