Is S&OP An Event?
Taking stock of your Sales and Operations Planning Process may be a good start. It is important to understand what you get out of it and how it benefits your company in the planning and decision making process.
Window-Dressing and Supply Chain Score-Carding…
When we review Supply Chain Dashboards, there are a variety of colorful metrics. Are they the right metrics – Are they calculated right to show true performance? … Read More
What Can Be So Difficult About Measuring Service Levels?
Line Fill Rate is an effective measure of supply chain performance. Fill Rate failure when properly diagnosed will give you much better information of what is hurting your supply chain so you can take corrective measures in time.
Optimizing The Order To Cash Process – What Is Your Priority?
When companies take a hard look at their business model and the underlying process, what is the key objective that is motivating them?
1. Return on Investment
2. Increasing Sales
3. Cost Reduction
Although all of the above are good objectives that lead to healthier businesses, companies are also driven by the latest buzz words – the latest consulting mantra, industry trend, and a flashy new technology from a sexy software company.
Optimizing the basic Order to Cash process will yield the cliched low-hanging fruits and result in a more compacted Cash-to-Cash cycle.
Is There a Correlation Between Inventories and Forecasting?
Some say yes………. and some say no! There are many things questionable about Statistics and Modeling and of course, the famous or infamous, Normal Distribution. Those who question the value … Read More
How To Create Models For Weekly Forecasting In SAP APO – A Primer
In our up-coming hands-on workshop on May 24, we will be adding a brief session on modeling at the weekly level so good intra-month splits can be achieved for the purposes of Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PPDS). We will evaluate the usefulness of weekly models to achieve good weekly splits of the monthly forecasts. What is the incremental value add of this process compared to using the APODPDANT proportioning keyfigure to derive the splits.
As we enter the last week of registration, only a few seats are left at rush pricing:
May 24th ‘Modeling & Metrics in SAP APO DP 1-day Workshop’ Boston, MA $995
http://demandplanning.net/modeling_metrics_in_apo_2.htm.
Planning Software – Part 1: How important is Integration?
What is integration? Why is it important? How well should my planning tool integrate with the rest of the system landscape?
We discuss the importance of ERP integration as a criterion in choosing a planning software. Most often software vendors that supply the ERP tools such as Oracle and SAP highlight this as one of the major selling points.
Planning Software – What Should It Be?
Having worked with many software applications for planning – demand, supply, finance, and S&OP – I have experienced a sense of elation (seeing something work very nicely) and shock (seeing something that work so stupidly on something so obvious). In a series of blog entries starting this week, I am planning to examine the important characteristics of planning software.
Demand Planning Training Workshops – What Is Out There? What Is Different About Us?
The workshops offered by Demand Planning Net are unique in the sense we actually offer practical, hands-on workshops. We assign pre-work to every attendee before the come to the workshop. Every one needs to bring a laptop to work through individual and group exercises to create actual demand plans and solve demand analytic challenges.
They submit solved case studies before they get a certificate of completion. This certificate of completion is essential as a pre-requisite before appearing for the certification exams in Demand Planning and Sales Forecasting.
Many professionals who have attended our workshops, have reported back that they were able to use the concepts in their every day activity. Many of our attendees are our loyal fans and have sent their colleagues and peers and successors to the workshops.
Demand Sensing, Demand Shaping and Demand Management – Are Demand Planners Doing These Activities Today?
This article summarizes the difference between Demand Planning and Demand Management. We raise the question on the role of Demand Planners in Demand Sensing, Demand Shaping and Demand Management.