1. Demand Planning Scenario Overview
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The Demand Planning business scenario allows you to interactively create demand forecasts in rolling time periods (for example months) using different forecasting methods. You then release the demand forecasts to supply planning. You typically use demand planning to plan forecast demand in a midterm or long-term planning horizon for the Make-to-Stock and Procure-to-Pay (Stock) business scenarios.
Before starting a new periodic forecast for a demand plan that already exists, you must consider potential changes, such as new products, phased out products, and planning horizons. If necessary, you can set up a new demand plan.
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2. Demand Planning Scenario Overview
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The Demand Planning business scenario allows you to interactively create demand forecasts in rolling time periods (for example months) using different forecasting methods. You then release the demand forecasts to supply planning. You typically use demand planning to plan forecast demand in a midterm or long-term planning horizon for the Make-to-Stock and Procure-to-Pay (Stock) business scenarios.
Before starting a new periodic forecast for a demand plan that already exists, you must consider potential changes, such as new products, phased out products, and planning horizons. If necessary, you can set up a new demand plan.
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3. Demand Planning Process Details: Initiating Demand Planning
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The Initiating Demand Planning business process provides you with all the preparation steps required to enable your demand planning process. It provides you with the basis for correct and periodic demand planning.
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4. Demand Planning Process Details: Planning Demand
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The Planning Demand business process allows you to create and maintain forecasts in a consistent hierarchy of different planning levels. It collects historical data by product to compute forecasts based on a selection of forecasting models. It also supports the execution of interactive periodic forecast demand planning, and handover of the forecast demand to supply planning.
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5. Demand Planning Business Value
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Demand planning enables forecasting of future demand based on historical data using multiple statistical forecasting methods
A guided setup activity leads through the administration tasks necessary to update and prepare demand plans
Predefined planning options are available. Reduced setup and update effort as demand planning uses settings in supply planning with respect to:
Provision of historical data
Release to supply chain execution and forecast consumption
Leveling of production and related cost savings in procurement and production
Avoiding cost of non or late delivery
Advanced demand planning options are available such as multilevel demand planning, statistical forecasting, outlier correction, and forecasting of products both in-house and externally procured.
For midsized companies looking to efficiently fulfill customer demand, the planning process will effectively match demand and supply to ensure on-time order delivery.
You can interactively manage demand planning to ensure better forecast accuracy and improve inventory levels.
SAP Business ByDesign helps to manage efficiently the demand planning process: from right parameter setup, demand forecasting, management of alternative planning methods through handover to supply planning.
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6. Demand Planning Scenario Flow
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