About this guide

This help introduces you to M3 Demand Planner (M3 DMP) and explains how M3 Demand Planner is used by presenting the concepts and processes. This help also provides instructions to perform different types of tasks using M3 Demand Planner.

M3 Demand Planner is a powerful tool that supports a collaborative workflow for managing sales forecasts and capturing market intelligence. An integrated forecast engine supports many automatic forecast methods and competitive forecasting helps you find the best fit among these methods. Dynamic grouping and data aggregation enables you to manipulate demand and forecast on various levels of detail.

Favorite views and exception management provide filtering and settings to guide users to their preferred information view.

M3 Demand Planner is a highly flexible solution that can be adopted to many scenarios with workflows, shortcut menu, aggregated and detailed pivot sheet with configurable action menus, fast filters for slice and dice of data, and drill through between views.

The tight and flexible integration with M3 Business Engine and Cloud Edition makes it fast to produce a forecast to drive the M3 Master Demand Schedule for purchase and production.

M3 Demand Planner can integrate with other data sources as well with CSV file uploads from various sources, Infor Data Lake and AI, API Gateway, or connections to other databases.

You are not pushed into a predetermined way of doing your forecast in M3 Demand Planner. You can build the process that works for you because of this flexibility in the tool. Solutions have been made for many industries and planning processes. Industries such as Manufacturing, Distribution, Food and Beverage, Chemistry, Equipment, Fashion, and more.