Performance in the Demand Planning Cycle
We’ve discussed the benefits of gathering data and coming up with a strategy of collaboration when implementing a demand planning cycle. Now it’s time to walk through the importance...
Collaboration and demand review
Now that you’ve made the decision to implement a demand planning cycle as well as gathered your clean data in one place, your next step is to ensure that...
How to Gather Data for demand planning
When deciding to implement a demand planning cycle, one of the crucial elements of getting your demand plan right is the data you use to create it. Is the...
Demand Planning Key Features
When formulating a Demand plan, you need to strike the balance between having sufficient stock levels to meet customer demands without having surplus. This means leveraging the right tools...
Roles and responsibilities of demand planning
When deciding to strengthen your supply chain infrastructure, the question of roles and responsibilities of demand planning arises. Should demand planning be placed under supply chain management, sales, or...
Why is Demand Planning important?
In our article What is Demand Planning, we asked ourselves why is Demand Planning important? Prosperous businesses are able to plan for the peaks and valleys in their sales...
The Demand Planning cycle
The demand planning cycle is a supply chain management process that uses forecasting to understand the demand for products. It ensures that the products can be delivered to the...
What is Demand Planning?
Demand planning helps ensure deliverability and satisfaction of your customers through a supply chain management process of forecasting and predicting demand. The goal is to find the balance between...
Executive S&OP Meeting
As referenced in the S&OP: 7-Step Business Process article, the Executive S&OP Meeting serves multiple strategic purposes. In addition to updating corporate strategies and measuring on-going performance relative to...
Improve Business Alignment
As noted in our 5 Key Benefits of S&OP for your Supply Chain article, improved business alignment is an important benefit of a corporate wide S&OP effort. Improved business...