The Demand Planning application helps you forecast customer demand for products and services to make sure the right quantity of goods is produced or procured to meet customer needs.
See Demand Planning processes for an index of all the available processes.
| Section | Description |
| Home | Overview of the Demand Planning application, highlighting areas that need reviewing. It also provides links to the processes so you can manage parts of the demand plan. |
| Demand Planning Overview and Alerts | Displays the KPI details and enables you to set and review alerts and exceptions for product and customers at various demand planning stages. |
| Consensus Planning Overview and Alerts | Collaborate and make informed decisions when creating a final consensus plan at the product-customer level. |
| Baselines: Overview | Make demand planning decisions at the highest level in their product-customer hierarchy. This can be filtered through categories based on disaggregation. |
| Baselines: System Forecast | Make demand planning decisions at the highest level in their product-customer hierarchy by reviewing the system-generated forecast. |
| Baselines: Commercial and Collaborative | Define the standard configuration, and provide options for the basis of the commercial and collaborative plans. |
| Baselines: Marketing | Enables multiple teams and disciplines to work together in one area. This enables them to combine marketing intelligence by including segments, customers, and products to create a more accurate plan. |
| Events: Opportunities | Create, manage and update opportunities the client has identified in the different stages of the sales funnel. |
| Events: Product Lifecycle Management | Plan for new and end-of-life products in a life cycle. This includes launch curves, BOM costings, EOL curves, and cannibalization and ROI analysis. |
| Events: Promotions | Create promotion plans at the customer and customer region levels. |
| Financial Assumptions | Manage the sales prices for the products in demand planning. |
| Bundles | Create and manage bundles from the Planning BOMs source module. For example, items which have been grouped together and sold as a bundle. |
| Demand Planning | Plan at different levels of the product-customer hierarchy. Use information from the statistical forecasting module to make demand plan decisions across the business. |
| Consensus | Enables multi-user planning collaboration to make informed decisions, and create a final Consensus Plan at product-customer level. It provides the ability to plan in unit volumes, resulting in output plans in both volume and financial terms. |
| Forecast Consumption | Control how open customer orders net off from the forecast. |
| CTO Planning | Plan Configure to Order (CTO) items both as parents (with BOMs) and individual items in a detailed manner. |
| Reports | Review, compare, and analyze the health of demand planning, using a combination of dimensions. |
| Application Configuration | Manage the Demand Planning application settings at a global level to act as the system's default settings. |
| Parameter Quick Views | Provides summary views and an editing facility of the parameters specified in demand planning. |
| Routine Maintenance | View and manage the maintenance policies for your data sets. |
