IBM Planning Analytics - Forecasting and Planning to a New Level
October 15, 2025
IBM Planning Analytics - Forecasting and Planning to a New Level

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Planning Analytics
We are using IBM Planning Analytics today to build out our short term and long term forecasts and manage our Sales, Inventory, Operations and Planning process. IBM Planning Analytics supplements our normal forecasting with enhanced modeling and more predictive/proactive estimates on stockouts as well as optimization for inventory placement to avoid suboptimal storage costs and less than ideal inventory turns and carrying costs.
Pros
- Advanced Forecasting Models
- Predictive Alerts and Modeling
- Wholistic Inventory Optimization
Cons
- Long Onboarding Process
- Cumbersome UI
- Better Reporting and Export functionality
- Increased speed on finalizing buy plans and issuing forecasts and purchase orders
- Enhanced capabilities to generate multiple planning scenarios which has increase our risk mitigation capabilities
AI planning and modeling tools that allows us to generate quickly and review quickly multiple future scenarios and plan into operations, sales and purchasing plans. Prior to IBM Planning Analytics this type of modeling was too time consuming and slow for us to efficiently use for our business
If anything IBM Planning Analytics has provided us way better capabilities than we've had before and systematized a very manual, slow and often error prone forecasting and planning process.
IBM Planning Analytics was far more robust and worked well with our existing tools and processes.
Do you think IBM Planning Analytics delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with IBM Planning Analytics's feature set?
Yes
Did IBM Planning Analytics live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of IBM Planning Analytics go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy IBM Planning Analytics again?
Yes

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