EVENT: Sunstice to host webinar on touchless demand planning and Agentic AI
Sunstice will host a live webinar on July 9, 2026, examining how touchless demand planning, advanced forecasting and Agentic AI can reduce manual forecast maintenance and help planners focus on higher-value decisions.
The session will cover automated demand-shift detection, anomaly identification, corrective-action triggers, the use of external signals such as weather and events, and analysis of forecast overrides. Speakers are Pierre-Julien Buard, Global Presales Director, and Jason Albrecht, Director, North America.
The operational issue is not simply forecast automation, but deciding which forecast series can run with limited intervention and which require planner review. A controlled demand planning model needs governed sales history, promotions, product hierarchies, weather or event signals, override records and agreed exception thresholds.
Planning teams should assign ownership for model selection, anomaly validation and override approval, while measuring forecast value add rather than assuming every manual adjustment improves the result. Before scaling toward touchless planning, organizations should define fallback rules, manual overrides and integration controls with APS, ERP and downstream inventory or supply-planning processes.