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Demand Forecasting Software for Small Business
Demand forecasting software uses past sales data and seasonality to build a statistical model of future product demand. Learn how it works and where Qoblex fits.
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Inventory reporting and forecasting built from the orders, receipts and stock movements your team already records. See what you hold and what it is worth, what is running low, what has stopped moving and what actually makes money, then act from the report.
Sales · Last 30 days
By product
| Item | Sold | Net | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olive oil | 60 | £540.00 | 42% |
| Sea salt | 140 | £420.00 | 18% |
| Glass jars | 90 | £225.00 | 35% |
Every figure comes from the documents that created it, so nobody keeps a second set of numbers for reporting. Filter, group and sort any report, and on the ones that find a problem, fix it without leaving the screen.
01Value
Stock on Hand gives the quantity and value of every product at its moving average cost, with each location side by side. Inventory Aging splits the same stock by how long it has been sitting, in quantity and in value. Tick the slow lines and set a new retail price on them from the report, or correct a cost that was entered wrong.
Inventory Aging
All locations
| Item | On hand | Value | Days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glass jars | 240 | £300.00 | 212 |
| Olive oil | 218 | £981.00 | 41 |
| Sea salt | 90 | £126.00 | 18 |
02Reorder
Reorder Inventory sets each product’s available and incoming stock against its minimum, with what it sold over the dates you choose on the same row, so a low figure comes with its rate of sale. Filter to what is short now, or short even once the incoming orders land, then raise purchase orders or a transfer from the rows you selected.
Reorder Inventory · Main warehouse
Short with incoming
| Item | Available | Incoming | Sold |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sea salt | 12 | 24 | 140 |
| Olive oil | 18 | 0 | 60 |
03Forecast
Forecasting projects each product’s weekly demand from its own sales, by average, by the same week last year, or by trend, and takes it away from the stock you hold and the stock on order. The first week that falls below zero is the shortage, and Qoblex dates the order back through the supplier’s lead time and drafts it. Forecasting comes with Business and above.
Forecast · Sea salt
Historical Average
Per week
35
Runs short
18 Nov
To receive
446
Stock Movement gives opening and closing balance and value, with every receipt, shipment, adjustment and transfer in between.
Inventory Turnover and sell-through per product, with the formula behind every figure written down.
Products, shipments, invoices, refunds and customer aging, grouped by customer, channel or sales agent.
Purchased products, goods received, supplier bills, and supplier aging split into due and overdue.
Filters, grouping, sorting and columns saved as a named tab that reruns on current data, on Business and Scale.
The report as you see it, hidden columns left out, with a download link sent by email.
Customer aging before the chase, supplier aging before the payment run, and margin by customer.
Inventory for distributorsRaw materials forecast from the bills of material of the products that use them.
ManufacturingSales grouped by channel and by store, so each store’s margin is a figure rather than a guess.
Inventory for ecommerceIf you sell a handful of products from one place, an export into a spreadsheet, or the reports in Xero or QuickBooks, will answer most questions. Qoblex earns its place when the answer needs stock, orders and costs read together.
| Feature | Spreadsheet | Accounting software | Qoblex |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stock value per product | By hand | Limited | Yes |
| Margin per product from its real cost | By hand | Limited | Yes |
| Stock aged in bands | No | Limited | Yes |
| Low stock with incoming counted | By hand | Limited | Yes |
| Purchase orders raised from a report | No | Limited | Yes |
| Demand forecast per product | By hand | Limited | Business and up |

We needed to centralise our inventory as we simply could not keep up anymore. So glad we stumbled across Qoblex… After trailing the app it did exactly that and even opened up a pandora’s box of other features that we are now utilising and saving us even more time.
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The reports, where the numbers come from, forecasting and exporting.
Inventory reporting software turns the records your team already keeps, orders, receipts, shipments and stock movements, into answers: what you hold and what it is worth, what is running low, what has stopped selling and what makes money. Because the figures come from the documents themselves, nobody rebuilds them in a spreadsheet at month end.
From your own documents: sales orders, shipments, invoices, refunds, purchase orders, goods receipts, bills, transfers and adjustments. Nothing is entered twice for reporting, which is why a report cannot disagree with the screen the data came from.
Some reports act. From Reorder Inventory you raise purchase orders or a stock transfer for the rows you selected. From Inventory Aging you set a new retail price on slow lines or correct a moving average cost. Forecasting drafts the purchase orders its plan recommends.
Forecasting reads what each product sold over a window you choose, the last three months unless you change it, and projects that demand forward week by week. It takes the projection away from the stock you hold and the purchase orders on their way, and shows the first week the product is projected to run short. Turn on Plan purchases and Qoblex proposes a receipt that covers the gap plus the weeks of cover you set, dated back through the supplier’s lead time, then drafts the purchase orders. Forecasting comes with Business and above.
Yes, per product. Set a product’s forecast method to Seasonal and each projected week reads what it sold in the same week a year earlier, so a summer peak is planned from last summer rather than from the last three months. A product with less than a year of history is better on Historical Average or Trend.
Yes, and it will separate best selling from most profitable, which are often different products. The sales by product report gives sold quantity, net sales, cost of goods sold and margin for any date range, and grouped by product or customer it counts the orders behind each line. It can be grouped, saved and exported.
Yes, on the Business and Scale plans. Save the filters, grouping, sorting and columns as a custom report and it comes back as its own tab on Sales, Purchases or Inventory, rerun on current data each time you open it. Rename, update or delete it later.
Yes. Any report exports as a CSV with the filters, grouping, sorting and hidden columns you have on screen, so the file matches what you saw. The export runs in the background and Qoblex emails you a download link. A date range on an export must be less than a year.
The Sales, Purchases and Inventory reports are. Saving custom reports needs Business or Scale, and forecasting comes with Business and above. See pricing for what each plan includes.

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