Lokad

Lokad

Lokad provides forecasting technology that is uniquely suitable for supply chain optimisation. Lokad delivers probabilistic forecasts, the most effective statistical method for dealing with erratic or intermittent demand.

Decide when to reorder and how much to reorder. Decide when to produce more or when to liquidate. Decide how to re-balance stocks between locations. Lokad provide an end-to-end solution that accounts for every demand pattern and every constraint that applies to your supply chain.

You can connect Cin7 Core as a data source in Lokad, or alternatively export your data from Cin7 Core directly as a zip file which you can then upload into Lokad.

Prerequisites

  • Users will need the Settings: Cin7 Core API Setup permission to generate API keys from Cin7 Core.

 

Basic Information

Lokad's data retrieval logic is read-only: your Cin7 Core data will not be modified in any way by Lokad.

  • In the future, if Lokad were to add write capabilities for Cin7 Core, it will be made very explicit whenever you are about to change anything within Cin7 Core.

In addition, your company remains the sole owner of your data; by default, Lokad treats this data as if an NDA was in place between your company and Lokad; if you want an actual NDA to be signed, please contact Lokad directly.

Lokad retrieves extensive data from Cin7 Core which include:

  • The complete catalogue with the stock on hand, the stock on order, the sell price, the buy price.

  • The purchase process with the purchase orders, quantity, the unit price, the delivery date, the supplier, the status etc.

  • The sale process with the sale orders, quantity, the unit price, the client etc.

  • The manufacturing process with the product bill of materials (BOM).

  • The price lists with the variant, the price and the name of the price list.

  • All data are aggregated per product and per warehouse.

 

See the Lokad technical documentation for a full list of data tables retrieved.

Connect Lokad to Cin7 Core

Cin7 Core is natively supported by Lokad and can be integrated with your Lokad account. You will first need to generate an API channel in Cin7 Core.

NOTE: Two free external integrations are available under Cin7 Core's standard subscription plan. If you already have two integrations, you may first need to purchase licenses for the additional external integrations under the My Subscription page.

You can also export Cin7 Core data to Lokad directly, which does not require an API channel to be generated.

  1. Get your Cin7 Core Account ID and Cin7 Core API Application Key by navigating to Integrations → API in Cin7 Core.

  2. On the API Integration page, click the + icon on the top right, enter a name for the API (for easy identification, you might want to use Lokad as the API name), and click Create button to generate an API channel.

  3. Cin7 Core then creates the API Account ID and Key under the Setup tab of the API Integration page. You will need both pieces of information to connect Cin7 Core to Lokad.
         

  4. Click Save.

  5. Log into your Lokad account, and click on the Connect data source button at the bottom of the Project page.

  6. Choose Cin7 Core among the proposed integrations options

  7. Insert the Cin7 Core Account ID and Key that you just generated.

  8. The last step will redirect you to your Lokad account, where the project DearSystems data source will have been created.

Export data from Cin7 Core

Alternatively, you can export product, sale order and purchase order data directly to Lokad. This method does not require you to generate an API channel.

  1. In Cin7 Core, navigate to Integrations → Lokad.

  2. Enter the date range and price tier you wish to export data for.

  3. Click Export to download the data as a zip file.

  4. In your Lokad account, select the Files tab. You can browse through the files contained in your account.

  5. Click Upload Files to upload the data downloaded from Cin7 Core.

  

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