Demand planning for telecoms field delivery
iFAST turns every opportunity into a live forecast of the engineers you’ll need, across your own team and your partner network. When sales moves a date, the forecast moves with it. So you see next quarter’s crunch while there is still time to fix it.
Bring a bid you’ve already won or lost. We’ll play it back as a resource forecast across your engineers and partners. Thirty minutes, your data, no slides.
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The execution gap
Most delivery tools start when the PO lands. Until then the bid lives in Excel, the engineers in another spreadsheet and the partners in email, and every hand-off is typed again.
Resourcing begins when the PO lands. By then the engineers are booked elsewhere and the partners have no crews free.
Margin disappears into travel, skills mismatches and engineers on the bench between jobs.
Project managers spend days turning a complex bid into a plan of works, alone, as a best-case guess.
Subcontractors hear about the work late, hire reactively and charge premium rates for it.
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Demand planning
Every opportunity in the pipeline is already a resource forecast. You see the work coming months ahead, for your own engineers and your partners, and the forecast keeps itself up to date as deals move.
The quote is built from your catalogue. Every product and service already knows the skills it needs.
The quote becomes a resource forecast by month, skill and region, across your engineers and your partners.
Soft bookings land on each engineer’s calendar, so people know what work is heading their way.
Sales shifts the date and every soft booking moves with it. Nobody re-plans by hand.
When the deal matures, bookings turn hard and lock. Only the resource manager can change them.
Overloaded months show up while there is still time to act.
Partners see the forecast too, so crews and travel get booked at early rates, not last-minute ones.
Skills are attached to each product and service, so a gap shows at quote stage.
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How it fits together
The iFAST logo is the product: one unbroken strand forming three loops. Change the scope in sales and the plan, the people, the partners and the parts change with it, because they are the same record.
Pipeline and stage gates, catalogue and rate cards, quotes and proposals written from your past quotes and SOWs, revenue forecast.
Plan of works, skills by product and service, soft and hard bookings, your engineers and your partner network, shared sites, cost forecast.
Inventory, forward stock locations and hubs, BOM checks, logistics, serial-level RMA, customer sign-off.
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Book a 30-minute demo and bring a bid you’ve already won or lost. We’ll show you the forecast it would have created: which months it loads, which skills run short, where your partners come in, and what the margin looks like. Pricing is tailored to your team, so we agree it together.