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Demand Planning Net

Scope: Demand Planning is the practice of forecasting customer demand to optimize supply chain operations and business strategies.
Purpose: Demand planning ensures supply chain readiness to meet expected demand.
Components: Demand planning includes stat/Machine learning forecasts and Customer intelligence from the Sales Forecast and finally the consensus demand statement.

Demand Planning: The Art and Science of Forecasting and Executing Customer Demand for a Resilient Supply Chain
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Demand Planning Net

Demand Planning is the art and science of forecasting customer demand for supply chain execution and management decision-making.

Demand Planning Net specializes in helping businesses improve their planning across their Value Chain. We provide consulting services and solutions implementation for Demand Planning, Sales Forecasting, Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), and Supply Chain Optimization.

Sales Forecasting is a key business process that enables the Sales teams to plan their promotions, optimize their spend and determine a volume forecast for key sales and business decisions. Sales Volume Forecasts are a key input into Demand Planning and S&OP.

Sales Forecasting and Demand Planning extend into CPFR – Collaborative Planning Forecasting & Replenishment. Collaborating across your value chain into your supplier ecosystem involves strategic sourcing programs.

Demand Planning Net is also an educational website covering different aspects of Forecasting and S&OP.

Solutions

We help companies roll out best practices in demand management and S&OP. Study your planning process in the context of your business model and best-in-class practices and develop business processes and implementation.

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Transform your Enterprise tool to be more usable and planner-friendly including model tuning and detailed on-site training. Recent success stories include Pepsi, Honeywell, and Jack Daniels.

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Are you still using the conservative approach like Excel and ERPs for your Demand Planning process? Since demand planning is a key process that can provide stability to the supply chain amidst turbulent and volatile market conditions, it is crucial to choose the right tool for forecasting – a tool that not only utilizes historical data but also analyzes market intelligence to bring out a better estimate of demand. Read More…

A quick three week engagement to assess your organizational readiness for implementing IBP.If you are a company with a well established SAP APO Process, what are the steps necessary for conversion from APO to SAP IBP? Read More…

If you are looking for an SAP SCM implementation or re-implementation, our implementation offering includes model tuning and training as well. Read More…
We provide outsourced planning support our clients using the SAP APO landscape. Valtitude / DPLLC capabilities and offerings in SAP SCM applications. Read More…

Sales forecasting is the process of forecasting sales based on customer insights and, market analysis, and other relevant factors. Sales forecasting is primarily used to guide operational and management decisions. Read More…

SCM Solutions

Demand Planning

Our objective: A unified, highly accurate supply chain forecast that ensures consistency and operational excellence.

S&OP

Because of the diverse experience of our Consultants, we can design and deliver the process competitively.

IBP

Identifying major variances and diagnosing the root-causes for the variance can quickly result in plan consensus.

E-Learning

These ‘learn at your own pace’, library of videos will help you get a clear understanding of best practice concepts.

Workshops

Our various comprehensive public training workshops are covering various important concepts in SCM Industry.

Usability Consulting

SAP IBP

Study and analyze your planning process in the context of your business model and best-in-class practices to develop recommendations and implementation steps APO to IBP.

SAP SCM

If you are ready to transition from APO to IBP, We would be an ideal partner. We know the ins and outs of APO as well as IBP and will provide the best advisory for making that transition.

Solution Tuning

At Valtitude, we help you develop consistent processes to leverage the modeling power of the SAP SCM engine from basic time series models to multiple regression models.

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