Demand management

8 important questions on Demand management

Crm plays a major role in operations efficiency and customer service through

  • fast an accurate order entry and tracking
  • meeting promised delivery dates and quantities
  • handling customer inquires and service complaints, returns and repairs
  • accurate and timely shipping documentation, invoicing and recording of sales history

Independent versus dependent demand

only independent depent needs to be forecasted
dependent demand should not be forecasted; it should be calculated

Stable versus dynamic demand

stable demand retains same general shape over time
dynamic demand tends to be erratic
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Qualitative techniques for forecasting

  • are based on intuition and informed opinion
  • tend to be subjective
  • are used for business planning and forecasting for new products
  • are used for medium- term and lon term forecasting

Quantitative techniques: extrensic

extrensic:
  • is based on correlation and causality
  • relies on external indicators
  • is usefull in forecasting total company demand or demand for families of products
  • has two types of leading indicators:
  1. economic
  2. demografic

Moving average: lessons learned

  • the moving average forecast will make the development of a rising or falling trend lag
  • the farther back the moving average forecast reaches data, the greater the lag
  • the three month moving average forecast may have overreacted if the demand surge had abated
  • the moving average works best when demand is stable with random variation; it will filter out random variation

Exponential smoothing logic

  • take the old forecast and the actual demand for the latest or most current period
  • assign a weighting factor or smoothing constant tot the latest period versus the old forecast
  • calculate the weightedand the lastest demand
  • formule: new forecast = (a) x latest deamnd + 1-a x old forecast

Seasonal forecast process

  1. Develop a seasonal forecast for each period of the year being forecasted
  2. develop a deseasonalized demand forecast spanning all periods
  3. calculate a seasonal index of demand for each period to establish seasonality

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