Product Life Cycle and Trend
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
Demand Planning Net is now Valtitude
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
Forecast Level Optimization
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
The Science of Optimal Inventory
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
Data Cleansing and Outlier Correction
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
What is new in SAP IBP 1908?
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
Demand Sensing, DDMRP vs Demand Planning
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
WMAPE: The Denominator Debate
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
What Effects our organization’s readiness to IBP?
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
SAP IBP- Improving Accuracy Reporting With WMAPE
SAP IBP defines additional metrics to evaluate the forecast quality of the statistical forecasts compared to what we had in SAP APO. The biggest improvement in IBP Demand is addressing … Read More