Every quarter, the same scene plays out at manufacturing companies across India: the sales team presents a ₹15 crore forecast. Finance plans around ₹15 crore. The team closes ₹6 crore. Explanations are offered. Nobody really knows why the forecast was so wrong.
Why Pipeline-Based Forecasting Fails
Most companies forecast by summing all opportunities in the pipeline and applying a rough "close rate." This fails because the close rate is different at every stage, and most pipelines have too many stale deals inflating the number.
Stage-Weighted Forecasting: How It Works
- New Contact: 5% probability — weight ₹1Cr deal at ₹5L in forecast
- Sample/Evaluation: 20% probability
- RFQ Received: 40% probability
- Quoted: 55% probability
- Verbal Confirmation: 80% probability
- PO Expected: 90% probability
Stage-weighted forecast = sum of (deal value × stage probability) for all active deals. This is consistently 2–3× more accurate than simple pipeline sum.
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