Demand Planning Exercises Metrics 
o9 Solutions
JUNE 11, 2025
This article is a shortened version of themes & topics discussed in our newest Demand Planning Core White Paper. Demand planning has long been a requisite of supply chain management, but in a modern, high-speed environment, it’s become something more: a strategic lever for agility, and competitive advantage.
ToolsGroup
JUNE 8, 2021
In the same way, using an RFI as a way to “narrow the field” of potential planning vendors may overlook–or eliminate–your best-fit solution. Solid online research and structured interviews with potential vendors are a better way to accomplish that initial shortlisting exercise. #5 6 Focus on the wrong metric.
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ToolsGroup
OCTOBER 11, 2017
Gartner says that you shouldn’t just pitch forecast accuracy to your executive management, but translate your plan into business metrics. Gartner recommends defining demand planning best practice, then launching initiatives to fill the gaps in your organization. 2% reduction in transportation costs (percent of sales).
Logistics Viewpoints
JUNE 26, 2023
The goal of an SCP implementation was to effectively balance demand and supply. Here, Mars Wrigley leveraged using Kinaxis for both demand and supply planning. Kinaxis is a proponent of using network planners for both supply and demand planning rather than having the planners operate in silos.
Unleashed
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
The onset of COVID and the rapidly changing environment of a pandemic-hit world has meant demand planning has become more difficult – and as a result, more critical – than ever. What is demand planning? Demand planning is the process of predicting what customer demand will be for a certain product.
Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 6, 2013
When this happens, there is greater balance between metric trade-offs and resiliency in year-over-year improvements in corporate performance. ” Start by asking for demand data by channel partners and then build systems to synchronize and harmonize channel demand data with new forms of analytics to recognize patterns.
ThroughPut
AUGUST 24, 2021
Earlier in the day, demand planning was a guessing game that relied more on intuition, instinct, and inclination. Companies that leveraged the data they collected to enable more accurate demand planning, distinguished themselves from their competitors. Why do you need new-age demand sensing to solve modern problems?
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