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
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Our Demand Planning Seminar in Chicago – With Emerging Trends And New Topics Oct 14-16
three day workshop on Demand Planning and Forecasting.
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.
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.
Demand Planning = Unlocking Stat Models + Engaging your Sales Force!
Demand Planning Net offers a service called Usability consulting where we improve the usability of your statistical tool by performing model tuning, setting the right tool parameters and finally training the planners in statistical modeling. Demand Planning Net has worked with clients helping them leverage the statistical features in their software applications.
• Most applications inherently have the analytical power to develop effective baseline forecasts.
• Most software tools allow you to create exception thresholds so you can streamline the forecasting process by exception.
Forecast Reconciliation and Proportional Forecasting – My e-book On Amazon.com
First e-book on forecast reconciliation and proportional forecasting released through Amazon.com.
Automatic Outlier Detection – Blessing or Curse?
One of the puzzled questions that Demand Planners ask in our training workshops is why their software produces a flat forecast 90% of the time. An expensive software that took … Read More
Demand Metrics for Forecast Diagnostics
We just published a new Demand Metrics Diagnostics Template for all DPNet users. This template is provided as a reference to calculate the health of the modeled forecast for one … Read More
Demand Planning for CPG Companies
Demand Planning.Net is offering a training workshop to illustrate forecasting techniques for CPG companies. This is held on Jan 20 and 22 over the Web in two modules.