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Our approach to process design is consensus and customer driven.
To follow Steven Covey, “we start with the end in mind!”
The best practice process starts with the customer in mind, namely
the Supply Chain. The demand planning process should be designed
to deliver an accurate forecast - right product, right time and
right location! The demand plan should have consensus from all
organizational functions on the demand side. Our
guiding objective is to design a best-in-class process to deliver
an accurate, one-number plan to the Supply Chain!
The Key steps in our process model are:
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Assess the forecast needs of the down-stream
customer. |
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Identify Roles and Responsibilities of the organization
on the demand side including Sales, Marketing, Product Development
and Category Management. |
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Map Historical Data and recommend appropriate forecast models.
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Design the sub-process for Promotional and Event Planning
and integrate it with the CRM process in the organization.
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Design Consensus process and define appropriate review reports.
Demandplanning.net has designed a variety of reporting
templates in our ValueMetrics©
software. We can customize these templates to the
needs of the organization. |
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Define the rules for forecast reconciliation and consensus. |
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Define exception management for demand and supply
volatility. Our focus is to enable you to manage the
process by exception. We have data mining capabilities to
dig into your process and help you develop exception
management. |
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Define the process for identifying Supply constraints and
Reverse Feed-back. Demand Management is a continuous
process and thrives on constant communication, feedback and
action. We help you implement processes that are
self-sustaining and continuously improving. |
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Define Holistic Metrics and processes for continuous improvement.
We help you design end-to-end Value Chain Metrics including
key measurements for the Demand Chain. It is important
to measure your entire demand chain not just the demand
planners. |
Our Consulting model employs the six-sigma methodology of DMAIC.
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Define |
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Measure |
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Analyze |
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Improve and Control |
Because of the diverse experience of DemandPlanning.Net Consultants,
we can design and deliver the process in
almost half the time and resource costs required by some of the
bigger consulting houses. We add value to your process
design in two ways:
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With our knowledge base of best practices and
the benchmark industry process, we can analyze and recommend
processes and benchmarks rather quickly. |
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Our central philosophy is exception management grounded
in the Six-Sigma principles. This helps design a very effective
process that is time-efficient as well. |
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