Demand Forecasting in SAP APO
Hands-On Modeling Workshop Using APO DP

- presented by Mark Chockalingam, Ph. D., Managing Principal, DemandPlanning.Net
on-site workshop at your location.

- To schedule this customized on-site workshop, please contact us.

SAP APO is a popular supply chain planning tool among many Fortune 1000 companies today. APO is a powerful tool that can help you create better demand forecasts and finished goods plans, when properly implemented together with appropriate training for the planning professionals.

The APO DP training offered by DemandPlanning.Net is a comprehensive three day course that will teach your planners both the theory as well as the modeling mechanics of the tool. You will have immediate take-aways for your job as a demand planner since we will customize the course with examples from your APO DP implementation and work through a case study to demonstrate how you will use the full functionality of the tool to solve your planning problems.

On completion of the course, you can take advantage of the many automated modeling strategies available in APO resulting in a more streamlined planning process and organization. The course will also emphasize the exception management practices built into APO DP to model, forecast and manage the process by exception through...
• Forecasting exception alerts and
• User defined macro alerts.

The agenda for this workshop includes...

Day 1
1) Introduction to Forecasting: Theory & Practice
2) Data Maintenance and Analysis
3) Modeling Segmentation & Data Pattern Evaluation

Day 2
4) Modeling in APO DP (part 1)
5) Assignment of Case Study and Discussion
6) Modeling in APO DP (part 2)
7) Proportional forecasting in APO DP

Day 3
8) Error Measurement for Model Diagnostics
9) Demand Planning Accuracy Analysis & Exception Management
10) Participant Case Study presentations

The full agenda for this program is available in the workshop brochure (PDF)

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