Search Results for: forecasting

  • How SAP IBP aka "Zoolander" is Going All in on Trendy

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … to ignore the fact that changing a forecast after the time an order can be placed is not forecasting.
    I have performed extensive testing with more granular (daily vs. weekly, weekly vs. monthly, monthly vs. quarterly), and the test results don’t support this highly granular and short time bucked forecasting. Furthermore, pewho that focuses on demand only leaves out ordering within the lead and the order batching in supply planning. See the article Test Results: Monthly Versus Weekly Forecasting Buckets, and Test Results: Quarterly Versus Monthly Forecasting Buckets.
    Collaboration…..Oh Boy, No More SNC Please
    APO was/is a …

  • How to Understand Brightwork SAP Consulting

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … failures is evidence of this.
    This is what our SAP consulting is all about.

    Introduction
    We have focused our supply planning and SAP consulting around the following high opportunity areas.

    Supply Planning
    Demand Planning

    Consulting Subareas
    Within these areas, we focus on.

    Forecast Testing
    SAP Forecasting Diagnostics
    SAP DP Tuning
    Forecasting in SAP ERP
    Parameter Optimization (Things like Lot Sizing, Safety Stock, Reorder Points and Rounding Values) from the Overall Product Location Database Perspective
    Explanation of MRP (both in terms of its functions, but also in terms of its assumptions)
    Connecting the Dots in the Relationship Between Forecasting and Supply …

  • How to Understand SAP APO and ROI and The Problems with ROI Calculation

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … SAP APO. This list is by no means comprehensive, but it gives you an idea of some of the reasons.

    Improvements in Sales
    When a company has a higher availability of finished goods or service parts, it loses fewer sales, and as it improves its reputation, it tends to take sales from other firms. Overall, SAP APO is designed to improve the availability of the company’s product. For instance, Demand Planning (DP) can improve the forecast, putting the company in a better position to meet future demand. SAP Forecasting and Replenishment (F&R) can improve the retail store …

  • How to Get More From SAP APO

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … components. In SAP, subcontractor agreements are brought into SAP APO through the CIF, SAP ERP, or SAP SNC (Figure 15.1), where they are put to use in both SNP. This allocates batched requirements to them, and Global Available to Promise (GATP), which allocates real-time requirements to them.

    The next area of enhancement to consider is in collaborative forecasting.

    ››All of the planning methods have advantages and disadvantages.
    ››Although the SNP optimizer is still not the best solution for high prioritization levels; it can now do limited prioritization.

    Prioritizing Demand for the SNP Optimizer
    If you’ve implemented …

  • Introduction to SAP APO TM

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … with detailed scheduling, SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) is also separated into two distinct functionality areas. While typically considered for use in planning outbound shipments, SAP TM is also used to plan inbound shipments and inter-facility shipments. Transportation planning is the smaller section of the application and covers transportation forecasting, strategic transportation management, and the assignment of individual deliveries to aggregated shipments. Vehicle scheduling is also focused on sequencing the deliveries and mode, carrier, and vehicle resource selection.
    History of TM
    SAP TM is one of the early SAP SCM applications, but it is installed less frequently than the …

  • How to Interpret The IaaS Model vs Traditional Enterprise Software

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Vendor Listing

    Salesforce (Traditional Applications)
    Microsoft (I question this ranking. I bought the Office 365 Suite and paid online, but it is not a SaaS application)
    Adobe Creative Cloud (Design)
    Box (glue vendor)
    Amazon Web Services SaaS
    Google G Suite (Office Suite)(BTW, I am increasingly collaborating with clients on forecasting with G Suite, and it is showing me new things all the time. No forecasting application has the ability to collaborate the way G Suite allows. The ability to add and see notes means G Suite allows for long-distance teaching. Watch out Microsoft!)
    Slack (glue vendor)
    Zendesk (glue …

  • Brightwork Explorer and Intermittent Demand

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … database with new product introductions, demand histories are becoming increasingly intermittent.
    Common Question: Why Does Our Product Database Look Like a Service Parts Database?
    After analyzing many product databases from customers, it is apparent that companies are being saddled with “service parts” databases. This causes a fundamental mismatch between many forecasting and supply planning applications designed to work with non-intermittent demand histories.
    These factors of product proliferation and increasing intermittency decrease the applicability of statistical forecasting methods and applications. All of this is, in part, hidden the fact that so few companies actually can calculate their forecast error at …

  • Brightwork Explorer Implementation Speed

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … is a periodic process.
    Third, Brightwork Explorer works off of simple files that can be easily exported from any ERP system.
    Brightwork Explorer is minimally invasive. It will change fields in your ERP system that control supply planning. It will give you the information you need to improve your existing forecasting system.

    Eventually, a simple adapter can be created, but nothing can prevent your company from using Brightwork Explorer within weeks of gaining access. Unlike many applications that pretend to be multi-tenant SaaS, Brightwork Explorer is fully multi-tenant. It has no cancellation terms (there is no charge to …

  • Brightwork Explorer How to Most Quickly Move to a Realistic S&OP

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … systems.
    Many S&OP applications focus on having the executives reperform forecasting that has already occurred and bringing in multi-period analysis into the equation. Brightwork Explorer does the opposite of this. We provide a simple adjuster for executives to increase or decrease the forecast. Any period can be loaded into Brightwork Explorer, but we create an average set of values that can be applied for the year.
    Brightwork Explorer can bring visibility and the connectivity between the company’s goals and the company’s constraints extremely quickly.

  • Brightwork Explorer for MRP and S&OP

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … their inventory parameters leads to manual intervention. The result is too much inventory first proposed.  The values are often decreased in a piecemeal fashion. If a policy cannot consistently adhere to, it is inefficient, and a new policy should be considered.
    The reason for this is that the supply plan is generated assuming there are infinite inventory resources. All that is necessary is to calculate to inventory resources required for a single PLC/SKU.
    Should the forecasting process be held accountable for forecasting demand or for forecasting the constraints of the company? Because the demand history is not adjusted …