Real Order History For Inventory Forecasting Software.
VOS is not inventory forecasting software and runs no demand model. It supplies the thing one is computed from. The kitchens you supply talk each order into the app, so the history behind the math is dated, itemized and tied to a named buyer.
A forecast is arithmetic. The hard part is what you feed it.
Distributors rarely struggle with the math. They struggle because the history underneath it was never recorded properly:
"It lives on invoices, not orders"
You know what shipped. Nobody kept a record of what was asked for.
"Everything is dated Monday"
Calls from Friday and Sunday all get keyed in together, so the shape of the week disappears before anyone sees it.
"We bought the tool and it guessed"
Point a clever model at thin, retyped history and it produces confident nonsense. Nobody trusts it twice.
Better Input
What your inventory forecasting software is working from
Demand, Not Invoices
Give an inventory forecasting tool what customers asked for.
An invoice records what left the building. The order records what the kitchen asked for, in their own words, before anyone on your side touched it. Feed inventory forecasting software the second one and you are modeling demand rather than modeling what you shipped.
Orders dated when they happened, not when they were typed.
Each order from the app arrives with the hour it was sent. Weekend and late-night demand stops collapsing into Monday, which is usually the first thing inventory forecast software gets wrong about a food business.
Next to your forecasting and inventory management software.
To be unambiguous: VOS calculates nothing. There is no seasonality setting, no safety stock rule and no reorder point in it. Whatever inventory forecasting system you own keeps doing the thinking, and we hand it cleaner history to work from.
Records delivered by whichever route you choose
On the direct routes nothing is keyed a second time
A projection is one half of the decision. VOS shows live stock that shifts with the ordering, and customer guides move when levels do. Any inventory forecasting solution looks at next month; this shows what is on the shelf now.
Stock across the full catalog, not only today's lines
There is no implementation and nothing to calibrate. You hand over item lists, we open accounts, history begins.
1
Hand over the guides
What a given account buys, priced as you agreed, carrying your codes. Whatever format you keep them in.
2
We load them and open accounts
A day or two for most distributors. Buyers get the app and talk to it; nothing is asked of your IT staff.
3
Pick where records go
Email, EDI, QuickBooks or straight into the system that does your planning. Set once, then left alone.
"I used to spend hours every week ordering food. Now it's simple, super easy, and I have free time to spend on other aspects of my restaurant."
Tony Luna | Owner-Chef, Prairie Moon
Delivery Formats
Orders go out in the formats distributors already use
Each order leaves VOS as an email with a PDF, Excel or Word file, an EDI or API feed, or a QuickBooks entry. No one has to switch software to receive it.
Email
PDF, Excel, Word
QuickBooks
EDI
API Direct
iOS App
Android App
Web Admin
Distributor Platforms
Why VoiceOrder Solutions
We do not forecast. We fix what gets forecast from.
Read what our column does not claim as the point of the page. VOS computes nothing about the future, and a planning suite captures nothing while a buyer is talking. They are different jobs.
No. Nothing in it models demand, fits a seasonality curve or works out safety stock, and nothing predicts next month. VOS is the ordering front door plus a current picture of stock. We say this first because the word in your search points somewhere we deliberately do not go.
Then why would a distributor shopping for forecasting talk to you?
Often the reason a forecast is wrong is what went into it. Phone orders retyped a day late, and invoices standing in for demand. Fix the capture and the tool you already own has something better to read.
What exactly would the planning tool get?
For anything sent through the app: the account, the items against your own codes, the quantities as the buyer confirmed them, a reference number and the time it was sent. Inventory forecasting software reading that gets demand, dated at the hour, rather than a shipping summary.
What is the best inventory forecasting software to pair this with?
We do not rank them and we name no products, partly because the right answer depends on what your ERP already includes. A planning module you are already paying for may become usable once the order data stops being typed in by hand.
Is any of this inventory forecasting software free?
Nothing on this page is a forecasting product, free or paid. VOS itself is quoted per distributor and we publish no prices, so the answer is to ask on the demo call. If a no-cost forecasting tool is what you need, that is not something we sell.
Can we buy AI based inventory forecasting software from you?
No. VOS uses no artificial intelligence to project demand and makes no claims of that kind. Voice is used to capture what a person says, and that person reviews every line before sending. Prediction is not part of the product.
We need inventory forecasting software for multinational forecasts. Is this it?
No, on two counts. VOS does not forecast, and it is built for smaller food distributors and DSD operations rather than global supply chains. Multi-country planning, currencies and transfer flows are outside what we do.
Where do the stock levels in VOS come from?
From whatever you count stock in today. VOS is not where your stock is recorded and it does not count anything on a shelf; it runs alongside what you have, with the catalog updating as levels change. On the demo we walk through how that connection would work for you.
Ready to forecast from something real?
Keep the tool you have. Change what it is reading.
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