Demand Planning
Plan for what you think you are going to sell. Demand Planning
is a business-planning process, which enables sales (and customers) to develop demand
forecasts as input to service-planning processes, production, inventory planning
and revenue planning. Creating a good and solid demand plan is a cross organizational
effort of sales (and customers), finance and supply chain. Plan&Improve helps organizations
to develop, implement and improve their demand planning process. It should be a
value added process supported throughout the organization instead of a set of numbers
created to feed other planning processes.
Plan&Improve helps organizations to streamline the demand planning process:
- • Analyze and understand demand and demand variability
- • Process design and cross organizational support and responsibility
- • Assess the use and support of statistical forecasting
- • Definition of appropriate performance indicators
- • Current IT systems capability assessment
- • Package evaluation and selection
- • Implement process and system
- • Anchor process in the organization by demand planner support
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