Who should take this course?

 

This course is aimed at supply chain professionals in charge of value processes. Professionals in sales, marketing, service delivery, logistics, warehousing and inventory management, manufacturing and production, purchasing, sourcing, production and master planning. These professionals are in charge at the internal level of reducing the whip effect of demand.

 

Description of the Demand Planning course.

 

This course provides the knowledge and tools necessary to combine statistical and judgment techniques and determine demand estimates that result in a reliable, repetitive process that considers all the factors that influence market and consumer behavior.

 

This program will give you tools to:

 

• Establish a repetitive demand planning process that manages market uncertainty, internal and external resources, as well as demand volatility.

• Know the different quantitative and qualitative techniques to prepare a forecast.

• Identify the most appropriate technique to estimate demand forecasts within the context of your organization.

• Adjust demand forecasts according to external variables and internal objectives through an adaptive Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process.

• Evaluate the performance of the forecasting process through the establishment of indicators.

• Identify the benefits of demand modeling.

• Apply the concepts learned to a demand planning case study.

• Directly apply the knowledge learned in your organization.

 

Duration:

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Online format: 8 hours in video, activities and final exam.