Demand Planning On-Site Workshop

Holistic Demand Planning for effective Supply Chain execution 

- presented by Mark Chockalingam, Ph. D., and Mark Lawless, Principals

- On-site hands-on workshop
- Includes complete materials and excel calculation templates for the participants
- You can have up to 20 attendees from supply chain, marketing, finance and Logistics
- Two days on-site with modeling illustration on forecasting software
- Your investment is $6,995 for the two days

 

Topics Covered:		You Will Learn:
	Demand Planning Overview		Formulate accurate baseline models
	Mechanics of Forecast Modeling		Set up a consensus demand planning process
	Forecast Performance Metrics		Leverage customer intelligence to increase the accuracy of your forecasts
	Collaborative Demand Planning		Measure and use forecast accuracy
	Promotional Planning		Forecast and plan for new products
	Consensus Demand Plan		Reconcile top down forecasts and bottom up demand plan
	Sales and Operations Planning Process		Leverage the Sales and Operations Planning process to improve the supply chain
			Reduce inventory costs and improve service levels

Detailed Outline of the Workshop:

Demand Planning Overview		Forecast Performance Metrics
	Demand Planning Basics		Mean Absolute Percent Error
	Mechanics of the Forecasting Process		Forecast Bias
	Organizational Structure		What do we learn from forecast error?
	Role of a Demand Planner		Introduction to Exceptions Management
Mechanics of Forecast Modeling		Sales and Operations Planning Process
	Forecast Modeling		Inventory and operations planning
	Time Series Methodology		Safety stock and inventory coverage
	Baseline versus event forecasting		Constrained demand plan
	Unconstrained versus Constrained Demand Plan		Reverse value chain feedback process
Collaborative Demand Planning		New Product Planning
	Setting up a Consensus Process		New product forecasting
	Gathering Promotional and event intelligence		New products versus Line Extension
	Evaluating promotional lifts		Pipe line and replenishment Orders
	Achieving consensus with Sales Group
	Customer Collaboration
Consensus Demand Plan
	Dollarizing the Demand Plan
	Category Forecasting and top-down Demand Plan
	Financial Plan and the “Gap” Process
	Reconciling the bottom up and the top down forecasts

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