A Forecasting Tool For Highly Unpredictable Times

Dashboard provides operational guidance for businesses
as they manage phased re-openings.

To combat the uncertainty around lifting COVID-19 restrictions, it would be advantageous to have a directional guide to help businesses through the where, when and how to re-open locations. 

Now there is one.  Allant Group’s Crisis Dashboard:  COVID-19 Version allows businesses to visualize COVID-19-related conditions around their locations, so they can manage phased re-openings. The tool enables companies to forecast sales and traffic at the local level to manage stock and staffing.  As new information is available, it’s applied to the platform, so decisions and plans are always based on the most up-to-date information.  

“While we all hope for the best, this unprecedented situation presents significant unknowns,” stated Jimmy Yi, principal of analytic solutions with Allant Group and one of the primary architects of the tool.  “The potential for subsequent rounds of infection – and the need for related mitigation efforts – is real.  Allant is working with our partners to understand customer behaviors as stores open and will use all available data to continually predict the most likely scenarios as the situation progresses.”

In addition to the data provided in the base model of the dashboard, customers can layer on additional components to create fully customized views to meet their specific business needs.  This could include customer files, store locations, competitive locations, transaction feeds, and data from advance analytics (i.e., forecasting model, segmentation, early returner model, etc.).

For a limited time, Allant Group is offering the base model of its Crisis Dashboard at no cost.  The base model includes an interactive dashboard with COVID-19 infection rates by county, and associated trend lines layered into the visualizations. 

In addition, when customers share their store or location file(s) as an overlay, they will receive a complimentary 30-minute demonstration and discussion on the overlay.

More information on Allant’s Crisis Dashboard is available at https://www.allantgroup.com/crisis-dashboard/