Demand Planning – An overview

Introduction

Demand planning enables you to create quality demand forecasts with collaborative inputs from both employees and trading partners. Good demand planning helps in increasing forecast accuracy and production efficiency so that inventory levels can be lowered and dramatically improve customer service.  You can configure rules for forecast consumption, compare the forecast to the actual demands, and analyze over consumption. You can also upload the forecasts from an excel sheet.

Feature Highlights

List of Activities

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Create Production Forecast

Create forecast for an item code or a planning group

Edit Forecast

Modifying forecast details for the forecast group

Edit Item Forecast

Modifying forecast for the individual periods of the item.

Edit Consumption Demand Category

Maintaining consumption demand categories to map demands

Edit Forecast Consumption Rule

Defining rules for forecast consumption

Track Forecast Consumption

Keeping track of the actual demand consumption from planned forecast

View Forecast Error Log

Viewing the errors occurred during Forecasting process

Component Parameters

Controlling the behavior of the component