Services

DemandPlanning.Net specializes in consulting services in the area of Sales forecasting, Supply Chain Analytics and Metrics, Sales and Operations Planning, and Account Based Forecasting. The company also offers customized workshops designed to develop your in-house demand planning and supply chain resources. The Service offerings include...

1. Demand Planning Process Audit and Diagnostics. Conduct process audits and interviews with key employees and stakeholders to define and formulate the value proposition. This involves comparison to industry benchmarks and best practices to highlight areas of Value Chain improvement. This culminates in the presentation of a customized action plan to re-engineer the underlying business process.

2. Business Process Re-engineering. Work with key employees to re-engineer and create value-enhancing business processes. Our main practice areas are:

a. Demand Planning and Sales Forecasting
b. Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
c. Supply Chain Analytics and Metrics
d. Account Based Forecasting and CPFR©
e. Supply Chain Readiness for Product Launch (Entry and Exit Strategies)

3. Demand Planning In-House Workshops. Provide Customized workshops to Demand Planning, Forecasting and Supply Planning staff on the principles and techniques of demand forecasting and consensus process. The workshops can be customized to key company data and simulated situations.

4. Web Forums and Benchmarking Workshops. Bring together peer companies and facilitate comparison of specific supply chain practices. This will include participating in a survey and attending a one-day workshop which will cover the results of the benchmark comparisons. We offer the following Benchmarking tracks:

1. Demand Planning and Management
2. Supply Chain Metrics
3. Inventory Optimization
4. Sales and Operations Planning
5. CPFR Process and Systems

5. Performance Measurement Design. Provide the knowledge base and a menu of performance metrics to your decision makers. The objective is to help your organization implement a balanced Performance measurement and incentive alignment process. The performance Metrics covered include Forecast Error, Persistent Bias, Working Capital Performance, First Time Fill Rates, Transportation and Distribution Metrics.

DemandPlanning.net is brought to you by VCP Associates as a knowledge base and information resource. This demand planning portal contains presentations, articles, FAQs, reference material on demand planning software, and other information on major industry events. You can also post supply chain specific questions to get a customized response from us.

You can also visit us on the web at Demand Planning, LLC., to learn more details about our consulting and workshop offerings. We also periodically publish white papers and articles of interest to the demand planning community.