One Forecast, Worked On by Both Sides, Across Your Manufacturing Network.
A rolling material forecast, month by month, that sponsors and their CMOs work in together — with quantities already committed on purchase orders shown beside the demand still in play, every material-month that moved more than it should flagged automatically, and the conversation about a number happening on the number itself. Each month's forecast is approved once and kept as a version you can return to.
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Committed and Forecast, Side by Side
PO quantities in the same grid as forecast demand.
Variance That Finds You
Configurable bands flag what moved since last month.
Edit and Resolve Together
Both sides adjust open cells and comment in place.
Approve a Month in One Action
Kept as an immutable, retrievable version.
Limits You Configure
Duration and bands per brand, CMO, plant and product type.
Every New Partner Multiplies the Spreadsheets.
Rolling forecasts move between sponsors, CMOs and plants by email and spreadsheet. That holds at two partners. At twenty it becomes the constraint — because coordination cost grows with every brand and every CMO added, instead of being absorbed by the process.
Why Existing Approaches Fall Short
No Single View Over Time
Forecast quantities live in whichever workbook circulated last. There is no one place showing the material-by-month picture both sides agree on.
Committed Volume Is Invisible
What is already on a purchase order sits in the ERP, not the forecast. Nobody can see which part of a number is settled and which is still moving.
The Discussion Leaves the Data
Questions about a quantity get asked in one email thread, answered in another, and decided somewhere neither side can find later.
What It Costs Sponsors, CMOs, and CDMOs
Sponsors
Reviewing a forecast means reading every row, because nothing tells you which numbers changed.
CMOs and CDMOs
Each sponsor arrives with a different workbook, a different cadence and a different definition of the same month. Raising a concern means starting an email chain and hoping it lands.
Both Sides
Adding a brand or a partner adds coordination overhead rather than absorbing it.
The Forecast, the Commitments and the Conversation in One Place.
Collabrix puts the rolling forecast on a shared, governed surface — materials down, months across, for any brand, CMO and plant.
Committed volume, shown in the grid
Quantities already on a purchase order appear in the same cells as the forecast, and are locked against editing by design.
Variance that surfaces itself
Configurable high and low bands flag every material-month that moved further than it should have against the prior month.
Both sides work the same cells
Sponsor and partner adjust the open quantities on one shared grid, so there is no reconciling of two workbooks afterwards.
Comments on the number itself
A question sits on the material-month it refers to, and stays with the forecast version rather than in someone's inbox.
One approval per month, kept
A month is approved in a single action and retained as an immutable version — retrievable, comparable and downloadable.
Shorter Cycles, Fewer Rows to Read, One Agreed Number.
Approval in days, not cycles
Time from forecast to approval collapses against the email-and-spreadsheet baseline.
Review the exceptions, not the rows
Only material-months outside the configured bands ask for attention.
Questions answered where they are asked
Comments sit on the cell in question, so the reasoning is attached to the number and survives into the approved version.
One agreed number, kept
Committed quantities cannot be edited by design, and every approved forecast is a retrievable version with a timestamp and an owner.
How Forecast Collaboration Works.
One grid, one month at a time — from the bands you agree with a partner through to an approved forecast kept as a version.
Set the bands for the relationship
For each brand, CMO, plant and product type, set the forecast duration and the high and low variance limits that will drive flagging.
Generate the view
Filter to a CMO, brand, plant and month range. The grid returns materials by month, with the time it was last synced.
Bring in what is committed
Toggle purchase order data into the grid. Committed quantities appear alongside forecast demand and lock those cells against editing.
Both sides work the exceptions
Flagged cells get adjusted or questioned. Sponsor and partner edit the open quantities and comment in place; the flags recompute on save.
Approve and keep the version
Approve the month in one action. The forecast is retained, comparable against any prior version, and downloadable as a monthly report.
Where Forecast Collaboration Happens.
The Forecast Dashboard is one grid — materials by month for a chosen CMO, brand and plant — carrying the purchase order overlay, the variance legend, comments on the cells, version history and the approval action.
Standardized ingestion
Each incoming dataset is pre-processed into a standard message format, whatever system it came from.
Standardized outbound messaging
Outbound data leaves as a standard message, on defined triggers, to the systems that consume it.
Broad system integration
Data is drawn from ERP, MES, QMS and LIMS across the sponsor and partner estate.
Role-based governance
What a user can see, and what they can act on, are both controlled by role.
Related Solutions
Forecast Collaboration covers the rolling demand signal. The neighbouring solutions pick up the capacity that answers it, the orders it becomes, and the batches those orders produce.
Technology Transfer
Challenge
Technology transfer scattered across files — risks errors and delays.
Outcome
Faster, cleaner transfers with less rework.
Procurement Collaboration
Challenge
Procurement and changes handled over email cause misalignment.
Outcome
Partners stay in sync and procurement moves faster.
Manufacturing Collaboration
Challenge
Sponsors lack timely visibility into production at partner sites.
Outcome
Issues surface early, improving coordination and reducing delays.
