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
Maintain Forecast for items.
Forecast at Planning Group level.
Define Look back or look forward days for consumption.
Consume actual demands against the forecast.
Ability to track forecast consumption and analyzes them.
List of Activities
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Create Production Forecast |
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Edit Forecast |
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Edit Item Forecast |
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Edit Consumption Demand Category |
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Edit Forecast Consumption Rule |
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Track Forecast Consumption |
Keeping track of the actual demand consumption from planned forecast |
View Forecast Error Log |
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Component Parameters |