3 Day Workshop on Demand planning for S&OP in Live – Virtual format for the first time on Sept 13 – 15, 2021.

Demand planning Net is introducing our hands-on 3-day workshop on Demand planning for S&OP in Live – Virtual format for the first time on Sept 13 – 15, 2021. Get … Read More

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.

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.

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

S&OP Best Practice: Engage In Ongoing Cross-Functional Communication Rather Than Wait For “The Meeting” Once a Month!

S&OP Best practice: Engage in ongoing cross-functional communication rather than wait for “the meeting” once a month! It is recommended to increase the interdepartmental communication – think of the S & OP as a process rather than a collection of meetings that happens at periodic intervals.