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Demand Planning Process Flow

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Dear Friends,

Please tell me as to what is the Process Flow of Demand Planning?

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Ujwal Arora

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1.Carry out all the steps needed to set up your planning area. The planning area is the basis for all activities in APO Demand Planning. It is a collection of parameters that define the scope of all planning tasks. The planning area is linked to the data mart. You load into the data mart the actual history (for example, bookings, shipments or billings) that wlíll be used to create the DP master data and generate the demand forecasts

2. Map the structure of your company (for example, regions, divisions, brands, products and customers) for planning purposes in the DP master data

3.Configure the layout of the planning screens for the different parties (departments, managers, divisions, and so on) who will participate in demand planning by designing planning books. Define macros to perform calculations, carry out tests, and warn you of exceptional situations

4.Define forecast models for time series forecasting, causal analysis and/or composite forecasting

5.Create a forecast of market demand using a top-down, middle-out, or bottom-up approach. Choose from a wide variety of forecasting methods and techniques

6.Forecast new products and discontinued products by applying lifecycle planning and "like" modeling techniques

7. Plan promotions and other events. Examples of promotions are free-standing inserts, coupons, discounts, product displays, trade shows, dealer allowances, coupons, contests, and advertising

8. Fine-tune the demand plan by adding management overrides and modifications

9. Reconcile the demand plans of different departments by merging the plans into a one-number, consensus forecast

10.Monitor exceptional or critical situations through the Alert Monitor

11.Make the demand plan available in SNP by releasing it

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Please check the [Business process Desrciptions|http://help.sap.com/scenarios_bus2004/helpdata/en/1f/9d3d41b77ba52fe10000000a155106/frameset.htm] in sap help.

This explains you demand planning flow in Telecom.

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Hi,

This process describes each activity in the Demand Planning (DP) cycle. In general, you can assume that the order of the processes presented here is the order in which you should proceed through the DP cycle. However, since DP is represented as a cycle, not a linear path, you may decide to repeat certain activities or to proceed in a different order.

1.Planning Area Administration

2.Master Data Setup

3.Planning Book Design

4.Defination / Redefination of Forecast Model

5.Creation of Forecast

6.Life Cycle Planning if There

7.Creation of PRomotions if there

8.Fine tuning of Demand Plan

9.Reconcilation of Demand Plan

10.Release of Demand Plan to SNP

11.SNP Planning Run

12.Release of Demand Plan to DP

13.Forecast Storage

14.Historical data updates

15.Monitoring of Forcast Accuracy

16.Master Data Revision & agian start from Defination / Redefination of Forecast Model

This is the process of Demand Planning

Regards

Sujay