APO - DP Implementation - Some questions

[Former Member]

Hi All:

Could you pl. help me with the following questions? A business group in my company is trying to adopt APO - DP. these questions are from them,.

- Flexibility of gathering demand

- Ease of use (what IT skill level is necessary?)

- How hard is it to launch (resource/time)

- Critical Success Factors

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Ryan

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Ryan,

1) Flexibility of gathering demand

APO DP has got the capabilitiy to aggregate or disaggregate demand.

It has great potential to plan demand based on the desired hierarchy level

It has got potential to plan based on past history and uses as demand

It has powerful statistical tools to exactly predict the demand based on

trend values, forecasting methods, seasonal and promotional values.

2) Ease of use (what IT skill level is necessary?)

User friendly & interactively in usage in which many users can login

at the sametime and make changes.

3) How hard is it to launch (resource/time)

It takes about minimum 6 to 1 year for a good implementation.

Number of resources can be minimum 3 to maximum as per the nature

& requirement of business.

4) Critical Success Factors

Key performance indicators as per business are the benchmark.

Reduction in inventory, increased profit, Forecasting time reduction,

Increased forecasting accuracy, etc.,

Regards

R. Senthil Mareeswaran.