Canlak Cuts Forecast Cycles with Microsoft's Fabric Planning

Canlak Coatings has managed to cut its sales forecast cycles from three to four weeks to just one, thanks to implementing Microsoft's Fabric Planning. The company previously had its forecasts living in emailed spreadsheets with no version control, which were refreshed periodically at the customer level. However, actuals were moved daily at the product level inside Microsoft Fabric.

With Data Crafters, Canlak put Fabric Planning on its existing governed Power BI semantic model, inheriting row-level security and writing plan data back to a SQL database inside Fabric. This move allowed the company to achieve significant improvements in forecasting accuracy and efficiency.