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Demand Planning and Forecasting

Follows on from Supply Chain Management, for planners who already know the basics and want to forecast and plan demand properly. Learn to prepare demand data, apply moving averages, exponential smoothing, seasonal indices and regression, use judgement without its biases, measure forecasts with MAD, weighted MAPE, the tracking signal and forecast value added, and run sales and operations planning as a monthly decision process.

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Modules
7
Lessons
35
Duration
7h 33m
Level
Intermediate
Quizzes
7 graded
Enrolled
25

Course content

7 modules · 35 lessons · 7h 33m

What demand planning is for, who takes part, how the forecast is shaped by horizon, lag and time buckets, and why some items are much harder to forecast than others.

  • What Demand Planning Is For
    Preview
    12 min
  • Roles and the Monthly Demand Planning Cycle12 min
  • Horizon, Lag, Granularity and Time Buckets13 min
  • Unconstrained Demand and Forecastability13 min
  • The Demand Planning Process — quiz8 questions · pass 70%

Topics covered

Demand Planning
Forecasting
Sales and Operations Planning
Supply Chain Management
Forecast Accuracy

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Part of a program

Supply Chain Professional · 8 courses

  1. 1Supply Chain ManagementFree
  2. 2Demand Planning and ForecastingThis course
  3. 3Inventory OptimisationFree
  4. 4Warehouse Operations ManagementFree
  5. 5International Trade, Customs and IncotermsFree
  6. 6Contractor and Supplier ManagementFree
  7. 7Supplier Quality ManagementFree
  8. 8Supply Chain Risk and ResilienceFree

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