Demand Planning

Jörg Thomas Dickersbach ()

Chapter 4 in Supply Chain Management with SAP APO¿, 2009, pp 33-84 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The result of the demand planning process is the establishment of independent requirements which will trigger the planning activities as distribution, production and procurement planning. Usually a sales fore cast is the key input to the demand plan. This sales forecast is consolidated and checked regarding plausibility, probably checked against a statistical forecast and corrected according to the experience of the planner before releasing it for the subsequent planning steps. Figure 4.1 shows this process for a very simple supply chain with global demand planning and single-sourcing local production planning: The monitoring of the forecast accuracy and a feasibility check against the planning constraints (e.g. capacity) are further common process steps. Depending on the business requirements there might be many others.

Keywords: Planning Area; Statistical Forecast; Data View; Interactive Planning; Sales Forecast (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-92942-0_4

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