Demand Forecasting, Sales Planning, Big Data Analytics & IBP
CADP is the first level of certification directed towards planners and analysts. The certification will give you a competitive edge to advance in your careers to become either Demand Planners … Read More
Managing Product Life cycle in SCM can be an intricate challenge – this is a key factor for both Demand Management as well as Supply Chain Management. And one solid … Read More
Beginning October 25, 2019, Demand Planning.Net will be re-branding as Valtitude. We have proudly served our clients by providing usable solutions in Demand Planning and S&OP since our founding in … Read More
In a recent client engagement, there was some lively discussion on Demand Modeling using the Product/Customer Hierarchy. Your forecast agreement with Supply Chain and Senior Management may call for delivering … Read More
A key consideration to inventory optimization is to have a strategic view of how to allocate your inventory dollars among different types of inventory. You can do a bottom-up analysis … Read More
The SCM planning solutions market is getting pretty crowded these days – almost everyone has a solution on the cloud for Demand, Supply, S&OP and analytics. As we examined the … Read More
SAP IBP 1908 brings some much awaited updates to the advanced supply chain planning platform. Some are marginal enhancements while others are significant changes to the tool and is a … Read More
There is a lot of commotion on the interface between demand and supply in practice. Several so-called “best practices” have emerged that actually confuse practitioners. But they also provide a … Read More
The denominator for WMAPE is passionately argued by many- should it be actual demand or forecasted demand? For starters, if the forecast error is small the denominator does not matter … Read More
Is your organization ready for IBP? How do we know that we are implementing this nifty solution that could NOT be used if the process and people are not ready? … Read More
