Case Study: Honeywell Safety Products achieves improved forecast accuracy and protects customer service with Forecast Pro

Honeywell Safety Products Protects Customer Service with Better Forecasting

Honeywell Safety Products (HSP), part of Honeywell’s Automation and Control Solutions division, is a major provider of personal protective equipment that had grown through acquisition and faced significant forecasting challenges: lumpy and inconsistent demand across 32,000 monthly data series, SKU proliferation, and reliance on three different systems that produced shipment-based, often inaccurate forecasts and manual Excel workarounds. To address this, HSP evaluated and selected Forecast Pro’s forecasting solution, Forecast Pro TRAC, to replace its legacy forecasting module and create a repeatable, analytics-driven SIOP process.

HSP implemented Forecast Pro TRAC in a parallel trial using 36 months of order history, then moved to production and tracked item/class-level accuracy; Forecast Pro’s tool produced forecasts $13 million higher than the legacy system and materially improved accuracy (weighted MAPE: Q1 24.4% → Q2 13.6% → Q3 12.9%, with a 13% year-over-year improvement in the U.S.). In Canada, combined with planning and cycle-time initiatives, Forecast Pro contributed to a 20% improvement in On-Time to Request and a 16% increase in inventory turns, while enabling deeper, consensus-driven demand planning across the organization.

Honeywell Safety Products

John Romano

Director, SIOP & Materials Planning