ICS Forecast Model Selection Tournament | saas product explainer video made with ngram

About the video

This saas product explainer video was made with ngram to explain how Inventory Capital Solutions (ICS) forecasts demand for every part at every location. The video opens by pointing out that the same part can sell differently depending on where it's stocked, which means a single forecasting method applied everywhere is bound to miss. It then walks through ICS's approach: for every part and location combination, every enabled forecast method is run against that location's actual sales history in a tournament, and the method with the lowest error is selected to drive the forecast. As demand patterns shift over time, the winning method updates automatically rather than staying fixed, so the forecast keeps adapting to real sales behavior instead of going stale. The video ties this mechanism to concrete operational outcomes: less overstock sitting on shelves, fewer stockouts interrupting sales, protected cash flow, and higher service levels for customers. The piece closes by identifying the product as ICS from FDC Solutions. Built with HTML/CSS motion graphics in a 16:9 format, the video moves through five short scenes — a hook on demand variability, an explanation of the tournament mechanic, the lowest-error selection rule, the adapting-over-time behavior, and a closing payoff tying the feature to business results.