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.

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SupplyPike

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

What is a demand plan? Demand planning tells you how much inventory you can expect to sell, down to the regional level. Armed with point-of-sales data, knowledge of inventory issues, and accounting for anomalies, you can plan on how much product to manufacture, store in your warehouses, and ship to each region.

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DynaSys

JUNE 16, 2020

In this article, the second of the series analyzing the impact of COVID – 19 on demand planning (find here the first one), you will find a list of actions demand planners can do to correct and clean COVID’s impact on demand. The post Demand Planning Against COVID-19: The Impact appeared first on QAD Dynasys Blog.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 5, 2017

What your demand planning organization does is key to where it sits and how it needs to be structured. What follows is a high-level look at the processes that a robust demand planning function supports. Demand Planning Supported Processes. And producing the demand plan is a combination of science and art.

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Vanguard Software

JUNE 15, 2021

Organizations cannot underestimate the COVID-19 pandemic impacts and disruptions on-demand planning. Over the past 15 months, disruptive events have exposed the challenges growing over the past decade – SKU proliferation, new distribution channels, shorter product lifecycles, and more demanding customers.

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o9 Solutions

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Which parts of your demand planning processes are most broken or need the most improvement? Understanding your planning maturity is the best pathway to resolving these system, data, process and resource challenges. A good demand planning process requires these elements to be defined correctly.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 29, 2017

As supply chains get more complex in response to omni-channel pressures, most companies are realizing the ever-increasing importance of having one quality view of demand across functions. We will first discuss whether a company should even have a standalone demand planning group. Should We Have a Demand Planning Group?

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o9 Solutions

MAY 26, 2020

This article has also been published on Business Wire o9 Solutions today announced that LIXIL in the Americas, pioneer of water and housing products across brands including American Standard, GROHE and DXV, will deploy the next-generation AI-enabled o9 platform for demand planning.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 10, 2017

Once you’ve decided your company will create a demand planning group and have determined what processes your organization will support , you can decide how to structure and staff it. As discussed in Part 2, there may be other functions combined with demand planning in your group.

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Demand Solutions

DECEMBER 15, 2015

That’s exactly what I thought of The Hackett Group’s recent article, “ Demand Planning Optimization – Three Key Steps to Unlocking the True Value of Your Supply Chain.” Know key market trends and their impact on the quality of demand planning. Understanding Key Market Trends.

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Demand Solutions

DECEMBER 15, 2015

That’s exactly what I thought of The Hackett Group’s recent article, “ Demand Planning Optimization – Three Key Steps to Unlocking the True Value of Your Supply Chain.” Know key market trends and their impact on the quality of demand planning. Understanding Key Market Trends.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 29, 2017

As supply chains get more complex in response to omni-channel pressures, most companies are realizing the ever-increasing importance of having one quality view of demand across functions. We will first discuss whether a company should even have a standalone demand planning group. Should We Have a Demand Planning Group?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2024

The Company was attempting to gain economies of scale by grouping manufacturing technologies within a common infrastructure to reap the benefits of a co-generation facility, a centralized warehouse, and a talented administrative team. In my forty years of studying supply chain planning, the groups became larger, but with questionable results.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 5, 2017

What your demand planning organization does is key to where it sits and how it needs to be structured. What follows is a high-level look at the processes that a robust demand planning function supports. Demand Planning Supported Processes. And producing the demand plan is a combination of science and art.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 10, 2017

Once you’ve decided your company will create a demand planning group and have determined what processes your organization will support , you can decide how to structure and staff it. As discussed in Part 2, there may be other functions combined with demand planning in your group.

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o9 Solutions

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Demand forecasting is driven by consumer activity and over the past two years, COVID sales patterns have dramatically impacted consumer activity. Therefore, sales history alone no longer provides what’s needed for accurate demand planning in an environment that currently is dealing with volatile demand and supply shocks.

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The Network Effect

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Then I proceeded to describe the differences in skill sets, business relationships and aptitudes between a Demand Planner and a Supply Planner. Who does the Demand Planning group report to?”. The goal of the demand planning process is to create a sales forecast that is as accurate and unbiased as possible.

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crisp

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Welcome to the world of ZURU Group. From insights to innovation At ZURU Group, Crisp’s provision of store-level data has become so integral it’s now highlighted in presentations to retail partners. Book a demo.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 25, 2017

Now that we’ve established that forecasting is important , you know what your demand planning organization is going to do and how you plan to structure it , here we’ll address where to put it. Analytical: The degree to which the organization is able to attract and manage a group of analytical people, and grow its capability.

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Supply Chain Action Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Often, the terms, “forecasting” and “demand planning”, are used interchangeably. . As a component of demand planning, forecasting is necessary, but not sufficient. Demand planning is that process by which a business anticipates market requirements. .

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o9 Solutions

JULY 2, 2020

This article has also been published on Business Wire India’s leading retailer, Future Group will implement o9’s AI-powered platform to drive Forecasting and Replenishment activities for their different retail format stores in India. o9 will support Future Group 1500 Stores across 450 cities which will include all retail formats.

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Supply Chain Action Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Often, the terms, “forecasting” and “demand planning”, are used interchangeably. . As a component of demand planning, forecasting is necessary, but not sufficient. Demand planning is that process by which a business anticipates market requirements. .

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QAD

APRIL 10, 2024

It’s the deviation, or margin of error, between the actual demand figures and the forecasted result in the demand plan. By finding out the forecast accuracy of your demand plan, you can factor this and make the relevant adjustments. What do forecast stats help demand planners do?

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BlueYonder

APRIL 25, 2017

Now that we’ve established that forecasting is important , you know what your demand planning organization is going to do and how you plan to structure it , here we’ll address where to put it. Analytical: The degree to which the organization is able to attract and manage a group of analytical people, and grow its capability.

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Logility

JULY 10, 2023

If you’re not in the supply chain industry, you might not think about supply chain planning daily, or ever. Steve Ungar, vice president with Logility’s Product Management group, shares his thoughts on supply chain in everyday life. Congratulations – you just made a  demand plan !  Let me explain. pound of chicken and 0.25

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Only four percent of companies compared to their peer groups improved balance sheet performance of growth, operating margin, and inventory turns. Both companies outperformed their peer groups. Henkel is underperforming its peer group. When compared to pre-recession years, we ended the decade with twenty more days of inventory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

On Friday, I presented an overview of outside-in planning to a consulting group. Today, I am again teaching an open class on outside-in planning concept s. They implemented a simple planning technology with an outside-in channel-centric model (Ship to model definition). I love the questions when I present. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As a result, we need to throw away the conventional definitions of demand planning and S&OP. Instead of relying on focus groups, we could learn through clicks/streams/ratings and reviews and apply the learnings continuously to markets. (The focus needs to morph from focusing on reducing error to improving reliability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 4, 2022

If “the forecast is always wrong,” is improving forecast accuracy even the solution to our demand planning woes? Gaining a better handle on demand is compelling, especially when recent sales history is often no longer a good predictor. So what can we do to make models more useful? A forecast is an input, not a decision.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 29, 2021

Think of service-driven planning as an intelligent thermostat for your supply chain. You set aggregate and service class goals for different product groups or markets; the planning system will automatically translate customer service goals into SKU level service targets for each item within each service class. ?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2023

His organization purchased an advanced planning technology from well-known best of breed provider, and the implementation should have been successful, but it was not. As a result, demand planning is largely manual, inventory management is a series of manual inputs, and production planning is via spreadsheet.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Of the twenty companies interviewed, only one can answer the question, “Do you have a good inventory plan?” ” We have implemented conventional demand planning technologies and processes, yet, in eight out of ten companies that I work with, I see a negative Forecast Value Added (FVA) measurement.

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Logility

JANUARY 18, 2024

AI-First Demand Planning eBook Learn “How Human-Machine Collaboration Cuts Costs, Error, and Implementation Time” in this free eBook. Demand outlier adjustment automatically detects anomalous demand history data points and provides a mechanism to fix or explain the outliers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 18, 2022

Through a series of meetings to drive consensus, the team degraded the quality of the demand plan by 27%. (In The company had a team of 25 demand planners, spent 10M$ on the roll-out of a planning system, and was being courted by multiple consultants to implement a new demand planning technology.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 7, 2020

ToolsGroup supply chain planning software enables Melitta Sales Europe to centralize demand planning and improve S&OP and promotions management. The different locations had been primarily using a self-developed solution for demand planning. Demand planning and S&OP solution.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The idea is that data points within a group share similar properties, and each group is different (statistically speaking) from another. Retailers can apply cluster analysis techniques in different ways to find groups of customers, products, stores, or suppliers that behave similarly. The retail industry is rich with data.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The Failure of Existing Demand Planning Solutions. During the pandemic, supply chain leaders turned off their demand planning solutions. Re-implement demand planning, trade promotion management, and revenue/price management together to improve the baseline demand signal. Lessons Learned. The reason?

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