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Demand Planning, LLC provides specialized consulting and education in the areas of Demand Management, Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), and Supply Chain Analytics. Learn more.

Demand Planning.Net On-site two-day training workshops

This highly informative workshop will be conducted on-site by an experienced Demand Planning expert. The workshop runs approximately two days and includes extensive materials and excel templates to take away and be used in your work. Learn more.

OMTEC Conference In Chicago

Mark Chockalingam spoke on the value of Supply Chain collaboration for the Orthopaedic industry in the OMTEC 2008 expo held at the Rosemont Convention center on June 25, 2008. You can download the presentation entitled “Supply Chain collaboration for the Orthopaedic industry” given by Mark Chockalingam to the OMTEC convention on June 23, 2008 here!

What is your market share?

Do you expect the market share to increase over time? Why should the supply chain care about market planning and market share analysis? Learn more...

Demand Planning Discussion Forum!

The Discussion Forum is a resource for sharing ideas and questions in Demand Planning, Forecast Metrics, Sales and Operations Planning, Supply Chain Score-carding, CPFR, Account Based Forecasting and inventory optimization topics. This is board is moderated and questions answered by experts in the area, including Senior consultants at Demand Planning LLC. Please visit the forum and post your questions.

Know the popular acronyms in demand planning and supply chain management.

Here is a list of key acronyms and abbreviations used very commonly by supply chain professionals. Some are more specific to forecasting, nevertheless this should be a useful reference.

Is calculating and reporting forecast accuracy becoming a daunting task every month?

DemandPlanning.Net provides an user-friendly tool that is highly customizable to your data model and creates analyzable reports in Excel spreadsheets with pivot capabilities. All the metrics required are already built into this software. It also comes with a rich set of exception management reports. This is also available on a hosted basis where we maintain the database of forecasts and actual sales and provide the reports through a repository accessible on the web. Please contact us for further info at 781-995-0685 or through email at info@demandplanning.net!

SAP APO - Review and Re-energize your implementation

APO in SCM 4.1 (and SCM 5.0) is a much improved planning system compared to the previous versions of the tool itself and versus its competition. APO offers a variety of modeling options from basic time series models to multiple linear regression models.

APO DP also offers the capability to model, forecast and manage the process by exception through exception alerts and
user defined macro alerts. It is important to leverage the full functionality of APO modeling and exception management. If implemented correctly, you can take advantage of the many automated modeling strategies available in APO resulting in a more streamlined planning process and organization. Learn more.

Recent Questions and Answers

Q: How do you go about mapping and re-defining the Metrics for your supply Chain? What is the key driver of the supply Chain?

Answer: Click here.

Q: Is there a profile of Safety Stock Coverage required for different Customer Service levels?

Answer: Yes. Here is a profile of inventory coverage levels at various required service levels.

Q: How do lead times factor in safety stock calculations?

Answer: Lead times are an important factor in deciding inventory levels at the receiving point.

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