Legion Forecasting
The right forecast, for every location, every time
Legion Forecasting automatically predicts demand across every customer touchpoint, at 15-minute, 30-minute, or daily increments. Factor in your unique labor model and staffing policies, and forecast demand in dollars, transactions, foot traffic, or any driver that matters to your business.
Highlights
Improve business agility, accuracy, and labor efficiency—automatically.
Higher precision for better results: automated ingestion and analysis of 1000s of data points
Sophisticated machine learning (ML) accounts for the impact that external factors, such as weather and local events, have on demand, improving forecast accuracy
Legion by the Numbers
Legion Forecasting
600M+
forecasts generated every week
500K+
unique ML models trained every week
1.6B
data points processed every week
Granular, accurate, automated forecasts
Granular, accurate forecasts that continuously improve.
Legion WFM synthesizes historical and current information about how customers buy, understanding and incorporating the impact of demand drivers and future events such as weather or holidays.
Get precise, short- to intermediate-term demand forecasts with unique models and forecasts for every driver and location.
Generate accurate long-range forecasts that account for seasonal variations and various scenarios.
Legion understands and accounts for the impact of demand drivers and future events, eliminating the need to run complex calculations, pay high data fees, or rely on manual processes.
Operate with greater agility
Automatically adapt to business changes.
Legion Forecasting continuously learns, improves, and adapts to deliver highly accurate results in changing conditions. Updated forecasts and labor guidance are instantly generated while allowing human intervention.
Adapt and react quickly to business changes by continuously re-forecasting and regenerating labor guidance automatically.
Optimized labor planning
Generate optimal labor plans automatically.
With Legion WFM auto-generated, highly accurate demand forecasts, you get optimal labor plans, budgets, and schedules across all touchpoints, freeing managers to spend more time with employees and customers—resulting in happier employees and increased revenue.
Eliminate mapping between labor models used by finance for forecasting and operations for scheduling. With no manual steps or “lost in translation” data issues, Legion automatically handles scale and complexity, creating optimized labor plans for your business.
Explain the forecast, instantly
Ask Legion AI Forecast Explainer Assistant why a forecast looks the way it does, which events, trends, or drivers shaped a specific number, and get a clear, plain-language answer instantly within the workflows.
Patented Event Attribution shows which events shaped each forecast, so managers don't double-count adjustments. Upper and lower bounds and predictability scores show how far to trust a number before acting on it. New locations get a credible forecast from day one, with no history required.
Catch forecast errors before they cost you
Legion Agent Managed Forecasting adds the Forecast Audit and Repair Agent, which checks each forecast and corrects bad inputs before they drive a schedule, so one data error doesn't become a week of wrong staffing.
The Benefits to Your Bottom Line
Harnessing the demand forecasting features of Legion WFM results in significant, quantified benefits for Legion customers.
Faster decision-making
Legion forecasting provides real-time insights into demand trends, enabling businesses to make faster decisions and instantly create optimized schedules.
Increased revenue
McKinsey research shows that a 10-20% improvement in labor forecast accuracy could translate into a 5% reduction in inventory costs and yield a 2-3% increase in revenue.
Increase labor efficiency
By using advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms to analyze demand data, businesses can optimize their labor efficiency and avoid the financial impact of overstaffing and understaffing.
FAQ
FAQs About Legion Forecasting
A few commonly asked questions we receive on Legion Forecasting
Why Legion?
Legion WFM enables intelligent automation to precisely predict demand across all customer touchpoints. With highly specific forecast models tailored to each dataset, and incorporation of external data, you get much higher accuracy levels than other methods—and it’s all automated.
Legion’s forecast model considered out-of-the-box things other products didn't, such as local events we didn’t even know were happening.
–Executive Director of Information Systems, Retail
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See how Legion Forecasting delivers accurate, reliable forecasts and measurable business impact.
