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Usability Consulting helps you leverage the full power of your software application including optimally tuned Statistical Models. We make the tool usable and fully customized to your planning environment. demand planning solutions, demand planning net Demand Planning LLC will help you with Model tuning, forecast classification/segmentation, model matching, and Exception management. This project will finally conclude with detailed training for your planners and a lab-style modeling session where they will be developing and testing models on their products in a live environment under our supervision. More on Usability Consulting… We offer this service for many leading applications – SAP APO, Oracle Demantra, JDA Manugistics, JDA i2, Logility etc. Read more on our Model Tuning service for SAP APO DP. We are continuing to support our clients who have a thriving SAP APO landscape. DPLLC is one of a few boutiques that has capabilities and offerings in SAP APO. To know More, Visit Us: [a]https%3A%2F%2Fdemandplanning.net%2F[/a]

Demand Planning - Consulting

Analyze and Benchmark your Demand Planning process with industry standards and recommend key areas for improvement: -Measure – measure the current accuracy of the forecasts using robust demand metrics -Map – Map the planning process using interviews and metrics analysis -Gaps – Benchmark and Highlight key areas of opportunity -Value – Quantify the benefits of re-engineering the demand management process The Discovery will generally proceed using the following outline: -Assess the forecast need of the down stream customer -Identify Roles and responsibilities of the Demand Side players including Sales and Marketing, Category Development and Trade -Marketing -Map Historical Data volatility -What is the sub-process for Promotional and Event planning and how is it integrated through the CRM or other processes? -What is the consensus process? -Are different forecasts reconciled? -Communication between Demand and supply side other than during forecast hand-offs -Are the demand forecasting and supply planning processes managed by exception?

Supply Chain Collaboration

Improve your Supply chain Collaboration – presented by Mark Chockalingam, Ph. D. Web Workshop, on-site workshop at your location, or as a public training course. You Will Learn to… Appreciate the importance of supply chain collaboration Quantify the benefits of internal & external supply chain collaboration Set up a collaboration process with your trading partners Utilize the various collaboration methods & understand the pros and cons of each Understand the key building blocks & challenges in creating a collaborative value chain Calculate, Use & Interpret collaboration metrics & the partner collaboration scorecard Whether you are a Supplier, manufacturer, or distributor in the Global Value Chain, an integrated supply chain planning process with partner collaboration is a key requirement to… Increase customer satisfaction, Speed up the time to market, and Improve profitability. Integrated supply chain planning starts with a plan for customer demand, which then gets translated into a production and manufacturing plan, complemented by effective inventory management, and network optimization for improved supply chain efficiencies in the long run. Traditional supply chains are driven by a halo mentality where one function receives information from another and reacts with goods and service transfers or with more information. However, collaborative supply chains work on the basis of collective inputs from various supply chain participants including even the customer (CPFR) and the vendor (Comanaged Inventory, VMI, or Supplier Managed inventory). In this workshop, we will review and illustrate the various partner collaboration initiatives including VMI, CMI, ECR, and CPFR, and their key benefits to an extended value chain. We will illustrate the mechanics of the different collaborative initiatives and show you how to set up a collaboration process with your partners. We will also discuss the key building blocks of Supply chain collaboration including Demand Planning, New Product Development process, order fulfillment, and integrated business planning (S&OP).

Supply Chain Analysis

Improve your Supply chain Performance with an effective Metrics Process – presented by Mark Chockalingam, Ph. D. Web Workshop, on-site workshop at your location, or as a public training course. The objective of this workshop is to review the inter-relationship between the various supply chain metrics – customer service metrics, inventory metrics and forecast accuracy. The workshop will also look at the mechanics behind the various metrics and how designing holistic metrics will help you to align incentives and address different behavioral biases. You Will Learn: Understand the importance of a balanced Value Chain Key components of a Performance Measurement process Understand the mechanics and calculation of Customer Service and Inventory Metrics including First Time Fill Rates, Order complete, Inventory Turns and Obsolete Inventory How to Measure and use forecast Metrics in improving Value Chain Performance? How to understand and address organizational bias? How Demand Volatility affects behavior of Demand and Supply functions? How to set up a balanced Metrics system and align Incentives Topics Covered: Value Chain Balance – Overview Performance Metrics and Incentive Alignment Review of Customer Service Metrics Inventory Metrics Forecast Performance Metrics Incentive effects of Demand Volatility Goal Alignment using Metrics

Sales and Operations Planning Workshop

This Sales and Operations Planning Workshop is a practical guide to designing and implementing an internal collaboration process that would improve your value chain planning and integrate it into business management. Sales and Operations Planning Process brings together all elements of Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Operations into one integrated set of plans. This integrated planning forum greatly enhances communication of key market and customer intelligence into the supply chain. Sales and Operations Planning is the best practice planning solution that starts with creating an unbiased demand forecast, reviews the feasibility of the demand plan in the face of supply constraints, and arrives at a constrained operational plan to drive the supply chain operations in the immediate planning horizon. In this training workshop, we will explain the design and mechanics of this internal collaboration process which brings together all stakeholders. We will discuss the key components of the S&OP process – the mechanics, reports, consensus, and hand-offs as well as the metrics. No other training program provides as much practical information and insight to all aspects of S&OP, as this. – Available in the following formats: – Web Workshop, on-site workshop at your location, or as a public training course. Topics Covered: S&OP Overview- Key components Demand Forecasting Process Integrating the Sales Force to Achieve Consensus Supply Review of Demand Implementation Methodology S&OP Templates and Reports S&OP Score-card New Product Planning Preparing for the Executive S&OP Exception Management in S&OP

Business Planning and Budgeting

The business plan is the volume, cost and profit plan for, typically, the upcoming year. This is also referred to as the annual budgeting process. Business planning is critical for every company, while long-term forecasting is indispensable for companies with longer product development cycles. The long-term plan provides the inputs for capacity planning and other long-term expansion initiatives. It is common knowledge that longer-term forecasts are more erroneous than short-term forecasts. There are more dynamic variables and error processes at play in determining the conditions expected to prevail in the future. So it is also necessary to subject your forecast to a sensitivity analysis to understand the robustness of the forecast if the underlying economic and business environment changes. DemandPlanning.Net has developed a unique methodology to develop long-term forecasting and analyzing forecast sensitivity. Often the annual Marketing Plan is the driver for the demand information in the annual budget. The Marketing Plan is developed with a volume forecast for the year along with the spending levels necessary to create and sustain the expected demand for the products. Marketing-mix modeling is a key component of developing the Marketing Plan.

Demand Planning Solutions

Demand Planning LLC will help you with Model tuning, forecast classification/segmentation, model matching, and Exception management. This project will finally conclude with detailed training for your planners and a lab-style modeling session where they will be developing and testing models on their products in a live environment under our supervision. We offer this service for many leading applications – SAP APO, Oracle Demantra, JDA Manugistics, JDA i2, Logility etc. PlanVida – Where Planning meets Analytics PlanVida, our best-in-class planning tool takes full advantage of all your data to give you the most reliable demand forecasts. Sales Forecasting Demand Planning Net offers a unique Sales Forecasting solution that will leverage both Statistical modeling and the customer Intelligence embedded in your sales organization. Leverage your POS data, Customer Activity, and Account Intelligence to drive better demand forecasts, Sales Plans, Annual Budgets, and Financial LEs. Our solution will allow you to engage your entire Sales Force in developing a customer-based Sales Forecast. Forecast Pro TRAC Demand Planning LLC partners with Business Forecast Systems to offer you their premier stat modeling tool Forecast PRO TRAC to help you develop a quick process for any industry that will help you roll-out solid baseline forecasts. If you are a small company, then our customized Forecast PRO solution will provide very quick benefits with a small capital investment. For a sample implementation, it will be two to five weeks to get your company up and running on a Forecast Pro driven demand planning process. Forecasting for CPG/FMCG suppliers CPG/FMCG companies are faced with a changing retail landscape dominated by a few large retailers as " Wal-Mart, Target, Costco, Food and Grocery and Drug – and higher uncertainty from consumer preferences and retail promotional policies. Demand Planning provides application oriented consulting that will set up a Forecasting and Planning Tool and deliver a customized template that will help you hit the ground running in just 3 Weeks!

Demand Planning

Valtitude / Demand Planning LLC specializes in helping businesses improve their planning across their Value Chain. We provide consulting services and solutions implementation in Demand Planning, Integrated Business Planning (IBP), S&OP, and Supply Chain Optimization. Value Chain Planning involves a larger focus on planning across the entire value chain that includes the customers as well as suppliers – a collaboration with your customers could take the form of CPFR – Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment. Extending your value chain into your supplier ecosystem involves strategic sourcing programs. If you prefer to study in your own time and at your own speed, then one of our e-learning packages may be right up your street. There is a third option, which is you like the sound of both, but perhaps can't attend all training sessions, this is when blended learning comes into its own.