DELMIA Demand Planning vs Poka

DELMIA Demand Planning is Windows software for forecasting customer demand in manufacturing and supply-chain operations. It combines historical sales, market trends and external factors with statistical algorithms, machine learning and generative AI to identify patterns, choose models and flag anomalies. Teams can add market intelligence such as promotions or economic shifts to statistical forecasts. Planners can pivot through SKU, category, region and other product or geographic levels, then run scenarios to estimate inventory and financial effects of disruptions or strategic changes. Forecast automation accepts new data, recalculates forecasts, monitors accuracy and escalates critical exceptions. Demand plans connect with DELMIA Supply Planning and S&OP for procurement, production and capacity alignment, while the DELMIA Quintiq Demand Planner factsheet describes R statistical platform integration. The listed 2026 release supports 64-bit Windows 10 and 11 plus Windows Server 2016, 2019 and 2022, and requires QR Server 1.7.4. Pricing is on request.

Poka is an industrial connected worker platform for standardizing work and sharing frontline knowledge across shifts. It provides digital work instructions, learning and development, forms and checklists, issue management, huddle boards, skills management, daily management, communications, and dashboards and analytics. Its Industrial AI offering is linked to AI Agents and AI Studio for connected factory work. The platform connects with ERP, MES, LMS and CMMS systems, while Poka Automate lists more than 1,000 pre-built app connections. An open RESTful API supports custom integrations, and its Data Lake streams operational data to Power BI, Tableau and Looker. Poka runs as SaaS on AWS, with TLS 1.2 encryption in transit and 256-bit AES at rest. It is available on iOS, Android and web, and states SOC 2 Type II compliance. Pricing is available on request.