Silurian Assay
Understand your demand before building on it.
Assay examines your historical demand to identify data problems, describe demand patterns and highlight products that need closer review.
It gives your planning team a consistent assessment, with the evidence behind each finding.
Know where to look
Gaps in the data, infrequent orders and large changes in demand raise different questions. A single portfolio total can hide those differences.
Assay examines each product’s history and brings the findings together, helping you focus your review.
Less time preparing the analysis. More time deciding what to do.
Historical demand from your systems
Manual review
You build the checks, investigate the products and assemble the evidence.
Build the assessment
Prepare spreadsheet checks for data quality and demand patterns.
Find what needs attention
Work through the results to identify gaps, unusual patterns and limited history.
Bring the evidence together
Collect the calculations and supporting history for discussion.
Your team prepares the analysis and decides what it means.
With Assay
Assay runs the checks and brings the findings together for your review.
Start with your demand extract
Assay checks the data and assesses each product’s demand pattern.
See what needs attention
Review flagged products, with the reason behind each finding.
Review the evidence in one place
Use the findings and supporting history to focus the discussion.
The analysis is ready for your team to interpret and act on.
Your planners bring the business knowledge. Assay gives them a consistent starting point, with the checks completed and the evidence ready to review.
What the assessment shows
Data quality
Missing periods, inconsistent records and other issues that could affect the analysis.
Demand patterns
How frequently demand occurs and how much quantities vary.
Products needing attention
Lines with limited evidence, data issues or patterns that warrant further investigation, with a reason for each finding.
The portfolio picture
How much recorded demand volume sits within each assessment outcome.
The findings describe the history supplied. They support your planners’ judgement and do not establish that a product will always, or never, be predictable.
How it works
Discuss the assessment
We agree the planning question, the products in scope and the data required.
Review the history
Assay analyses an agreed export from your existing systems. No direct system connection is needed.
Review the findings together
We discuss the results, add the business context and agree which issues need further attention.
A record you can check
Each assessment records the data, settings and method used. You can trace the findings and reproduce the analysis under the same conditions.
As new demand becomes available, a fresh assessment reflects the updated history.
Forecasting demonstration using synthetic data
This separate demonstration shows forecasting and inventory projections, rather than the demand-history assessment described here.