Demand Forecasting, Sales Planning, Big Data Analytics & IBP
Many planners typically boycott the Advanced Planning tool that is struggling to meet their planning needs. Their Demand Management operates in full-blown Excel mode and off-line analytics for most of … Read More
Demand Planning LLC has done some extensive research on modeling capabilities in the IBP Demand solution launched by SAP. And we are the leading authority on Model Tuning and Optimization in … Read More
If you want to reserve inventory for your customer, what to do? Create customer-specific SKUs or a Virtual warehouse to lock the inventory.
Demand Planning and Sales Forecasting Seminar in Boston will focus on demand modeling using statistical techniques, the methodology to perform model diagnostics, forecast accuracy measurement, and the process to incorporate market intelligence and finally how demand forecasting fits into the corporate S&OP process.
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I facilitated an S&OP Discussion Panel for pharmaceutical and Biotech executives last week.
Cross-section of diverse experiences from small and large pharma companies. The report card when it comes to S&OP is not very good. We need to make great strides towards streamlining Sales and Operations Planning process in Pharma for both clinical supply chains as well as commercial supply chains.
Is it better to correct the actual sales for supply constraints and come up with a version of the actual demand that is unconstrained?
Measurement is an ex-post event that should not affect the actual forecasting process. If the Sales force is encouraged to think about a constrained forecast, the organization will lose visibility to the true unconstrained demand.
One option will be to use a disciplined process to measure true demand every month and evaluat the unconstrained forecast with this version of true demand.
