Improving Forecasts with Integrated Business Planning

Ganesh Sankaran has been consulting large multi-national companies for over 11 years on their supply chain processes and IT solutions and helping them solve business problems and generate value from their investments. Ganesh possesses a skillset that combines theoretical insights in SCM and implementation experience in SAP solutions further supplemented by around seven years of software development experience. He is passionate about teaching and research and continues to engage closely with his alma mater to pursue these interests. Federico Sasso is a consultant with a solid background in Logistics and Supply Chain Management. He is specialized in SAP Integrated Business Planning especially in demand planning, developing new algorithms and processes for forecasting seasonal and intermittent products. He disposes of an interdisciplinary expertise in engineering and economics. He is a ISCEA Certified Demand Driven Planner (CDDP), leveraging the concepts of the Demand Driven Methodology (DDMRP - DDI).

Introduction.- Building Demand Planning Organization and Competencies.- Efficient and Effective Usage of Out of the Box Statistical Forecasting.- Custom Method to Forecast Seasonal Products.- Custom Method to Forecast Intermittent Products.- Value of Forecasting with Custom Methods.- Improving Short Term Forecast with Demand Sensing.- How to Measure and Improve Forecasting.