Demand & Supply Planning
How to turn a maintenance and operations work programme into a credible materials plan: dependent and independent demand, forecasting and forecast error, the plan-netting cycle, sales-and-operations-planning style reviews, shutdown material planning and planning KPIs. For planners, buyers, materials controllers and supervisors who commit to dates.
55m
Total time
4
Competency levels
12
Lessons
What you'll learn
- Distinguish dependent from independent demand and plan industrial demand from the work programme, not history alone
- Apply basic forecasting methods and choose an appropriate horizon and level of aggregation
- Measure forecast performance separately for bias and accuracy, and act on what each reveals
- Run the planning cycle from demand signals through netting to a supply plan reviewed with stakeholders
- Explain the bullwhip effect and how buffer-hoarding and late signals amplify it
- Plan shutdown and turnaround materials, manage constraints and expedite without breaking the plan
Curriculum
Progress through each competency level in order.
1
Awareness
- 3mWhere Industrial Demand Comes FromKnowledge
- 3mThe Planning CycleKnowledge
- 7mAwareness Check: Demand Sources and the Planning CycleAssessment
2
Knowledge
- 3mForecasting BasicsKnowledge
- 3mForecast Error: Bias versus AccuracyKnowledge
- 8mKnowledge Check: Forecasting and ErrorAssessment
3
Skill
- 3mPlanning Reviews and the Bullwhip EffectKnowledge
- 3mAssignment: Build and Review a Netted Materials PlanAssignment
- 8mSkill Check: Netting, Reviews and AmplificationAssessment
4
Mastery
- 3mShutdown Materials, Constraints and Planning KPIsKnowledge
- 3mAssignment: Long-Lead and Constraint Plan for a ShutdownAssignment
- 8mMastery Assessment: Planning Judgement Under PressureAssessment
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