As World IT Show 2025 approaches, it's time to focus on two of the key challenges of the digital transformation era: data utilization and demand forecasting. The event, the largest IT exhibition in Korea, will be held at COEX in Seoul from April 24 to 26, 2025, and is an opportunity to meet innovative technologies that will determine the competitiveness of companies.
At a time when inventory management and demand forecasting have become key challenges in corporate management, precise demand forecasting using AI technology is a solution that business decision makers must understand and consider.
In this article, we'll take an in-depth look at how DeepFlow, one of the key innovations at World IT Show 2025, can help organizations solve demand forecasting problems and drive real business results.
One of the biggest challenges facing many organizations today is the difficulty of accurately forecasting demand. Companies that rely on traditional forecasting methods are less responsive in an environment of market volatilityand rapidly changing consumer behavior.
Overforecasting demand leads to increased storage costs and reduced product value due to overstocking, while underforecasting leads to lost opportunities and decreased customer confidence due to out-of-stocks. These issues go beyond just inventory management and directly impact a company's cash flow and profitability.
Especially since the pandemic, the increasing instability of global supply chains and unpredictable consumer behavior patterns have highlighted the limitations of forecasting methods that rely on traditional statistical methodologies or simple rules of thumb.
Organizations are now realizing the need for advanced forecasting techniques that can be sensitive to external variables and market changes. ImpactfulAI's Deepflow is an AI-powered demand forecasting solutiondeveloped to meet these market needs, helping organizations stay competitive through accurate forecasting in a rapidly changing market environment.
More than just a demand forecasting tool, Deepflow is a comprehensive AI solution that helps businesses make decisions across the board. Its main feature is that it applies more than 200 advanced machine learning models to provide customized forecasting models for various industries.
This is a different approach from the few models offered by most AI solutions, allowing you to selectively apply the best model for each industry and company's characteristics.
What makes DeepFlow fundamentally different from traditional demand forecasting systems is its ability to make precise forecasts that take into account market changes and external factors. While traditional systems rely primarily on historical sales data, DeepFlow ingests and crawls a vast amount of data (over 50,000+) to account for external variables in real-time.
This includes weather, economic indicators, social media trends, competitor activity, and more. This ability to analyzecomprehensive datagives companies the ability to proactively respond to market changes.
In addition, Deepflow further enhances the accuracy of its forecasts by applying external variables optimized for each company's product and raw material characteristics. This means that Deepflow does not simply apply a generic forecasting model, but deeply understands the characteristics of each company and industry and provides customized solutions accordingly.
ImpactfulAI is recognized for delivering reliable solutions with a proven track record, not just technology. As of Q1 2025, we have 46 cumulative patent applications, 6 patent registrations, and 7 US patent applications pending.
This means that our technology is not just an idea, but is ready for realization.
The credibility of the technology is also supported by the fact that it has received various official recognitions, such as the Minister of Science and ICT Award and the Minister of SMEs and Startups Award. This recognition is one of the most important factors for corporate decision makers when adopting new technologies.
What's especially noteworthy is that Impactful AI is not just touting its technical excellence, but is proving its value through real-world business outcomes. Companies as diverse as Hanmi Pharm Online Farm, Dongkuk Industries, and Pulmuwon have implemented Deep Flow and have seen tangible results in reducing inventory shortages by 49.1% and reducing overstock by more than 70.9%.
Seeing how deep flow is being applied in real-world business environments is important to understand the value of this technology.
First, the case of Hanmi Pharm Online Farm illustrates the applicability of deep flow in pharmaceutical distribution. Pharmaceuticals are items that are difficult to predict demand for and require accurate inventory management. This is because they have expiration dates, demanding storage conditions, and shortages can directly impact patient health. Deepflow helped optimize inventory by providing a customized forecasting model that takes into account the specifics of the pharmaceutical sector.
The case of Dongkuk Industries illustrates the use of deep flow in the manufacturing industry. The manufacturing industry has a complex supply chain, from raw material procurement to finished product production, where forecasting errors in any one part can have a cascading effect on the entire production line.
Deepflow helped the company build a consistent forecasting system from raw material sourcing planning to final product production with Deepflow Material, which supports raw material price forecasting.
For a food company like Pullmuwon, the challenges are on a different level. Food products have a short shelf life and are sensitive to seasonal factors, changing trends, and more. Deepflow was able to provide a comprehensive model to analyze seasonality, promotional effects, the impact of new product launches, and more.
These success stories in different industries show that Deepflow is not just a generic AI solution, but can provide customized solutions optimized for the characteristics of each industry and company.
At World IT Show 2025, ImpactfulAI will be highlighting two key solutions: Deep Flow Forecast and Deep Flow Material.
Deep Flow Forecast is a solution focused on product sales forecasting and inventory optimization, enabling more accurate sales forecasts by taking into account not only historical sales data but also various external factors such as market trends, seasonality, and promotional effects, ultimately helping companies solve the most basic yet critical demand forecasting problem.
Deepflow Material specializes in raw material price forecasting, which is becoming increasingly important in the face of global supply chain instability.
Fluctuating commodity prices are a critical factor that directly impacts manufacturers' production costs. Deepflow Material helps companies to proactively plan their procurement strategy by predicting changes in raw material prices by comprehensively analyzing global economic indicators, geopolitical risks, and industry-specific supply and demand conditions.
The show will feature a variety of hands-on demos and personalized consulting to help decision makers understand how Deepflow can be applied to their business context.
In particular, companies looking to adopt AI predictive technologies will have the opportunity to explore optimized solutions with expert consultation on-site.
AI-powered demand forecasting goes beyond just making inventory management more efficient, it has far-reaching implications for a company's overall competitiveness.
For starters, from a financial perspective, accurate demand forecasting can significantly reduce inventory-related costs, helping to optimize a company's working capital. It can improve profitability by reducing storage costs, value depreciation, and disposal costs due to overstocking, and avoiding emergency procurement costs and lost opportunities due to out-of-stocks.
AI-powered demand forecasting also plays an important role in customer experience. Accurate inventory managementcontributes to customer satisfaction and brand loyalty by ensuring that customers have the products they want, when they need them.
Delayed shipments or out-of-stocks due to low inventory can lead to customer churn, especially since today's consumers expect instant gratification.
In terms of supply chain management, AI-powered demand forecasting enables efficient coordination of the entire supply chain, including suppliers, production facilities, and distribution centers. With accurate forecasts, you can optimize contracts with suppliers, plan production efficiently, and allocate logistics resources appropriately.
This is a critical competitive advantage, especially in the face of increasing uncertainty in global supply chains.
AI-powered demand forecasting also provides great value in terms of strategic decision-making. Key strategic decisions, such as new product launches, market entry, and investment decisions, are more likely to succeed when they are based on accurate forecasts of future demand. Advanced AI forecasting solutions like Deepflow provide reliable data and insights to support these strategic decisions.
Business decision makers looking to adopt an AI demand forecasting solution should consider several important factors. Industry specificity is a critical consideration, and it's important to choose a solution that truly understands and reflects the unique characteristics and challenges of each industry.
The fact that Deepflow applies more than 200 advanced machine learning modelsand provides industry-specific, customized predictive models demonstrates the importance we place on industry specificity.
Data integration capabilities are also important, and an effective AI demand forecasting solution must be able to seamlessly integrate and analyze a variety of external data as well as internal data. The fact that Deepflow ingests and crawls a vast amount of data (over 50,000+) suggests that it has this ability.
The transparency and explainabilityof the technology should also not be overlooked. No matter how accurate an AI technology provides predictions, if decision makers can't understand and trust the results, they won't be able to use them to make real-world decisions.
AI solutions, especially those utilized for critical business decisions, should be able to explain how they arrived at their results.
Ease of implementation and scalability are also important considerations. An AI solution should be able to integrate seamlessly with your organization's existing systems and scale as your business grows, which reduces the initial cost and time of adoption and increases the long-term value of utilization.
Finally, it's important to ensure that there are proven real-world examples and concrete outcomes. Because even if a technology is great in theory, if it hasn't proven its value in a real-world business environment, there's a lot at stake.
More than just a technological innovation, ImpactfulAI's debut of Deepflow at World IT Show 2025 is an important milestone in the future of business. AI-powered demand forecasting technology is not only contributing to direct business outcomes such as more efficient inventory management, lower costs, and higher customer satisfaction, but it is also becoming a transformative tool that is changing the way organizations make decisions.
Deepflow's unique technology features, including more than 200 advanced machine learning models, massive data collection and crawling of more than 50,000 data points, and real-time data integration to improve forecasting accuracy, enable companies to effectively respond to rapidly changing market conditions.
Practical results, such as a 49.1% reduction in stock-outs and 70.9% reduction in overstock, clearly demonstrate the value this technology can create in real-world business environments.
World IT Show 2025 will be an important opportunity to experience these innovative technologies first-hand and explore how they can be applied to your own business. This will give enterprise decision makers the insights and tools to take their business to the next level.
Digital transformation and the advancement of AI technology is no longer a choice, but a necessity. Innovative solutions like ImpactAI's DeepFlow are helping organizations on this digital transformation journey to make more accurate and efficient decisions, paving the way for continued growth and competitive advantage in an increasingly uncertain business environment. World IT Show 2025 will be an important place to get a glimpse of this business future.