Demand Management

Today’s Challenge:
In today's business environment the importance of Demand Management is underestimated and sometimes confused with number crunching for next month's Forecast figure.

However, for many companies Forecasting is one of the main drivers to all distribution and manufacturing activities. Increasing the Demand Plan quality through Forecasting Excellence reduces the external uncertainty. Safety Stock and other Safety mechanisms as buffer against this uncertainty can be reduced or Customer Service Levels enhanced if Forecast Accuracy increases. Inaccurate Forecast prevents the availability of the right product on time in the right place.

MÖBIUS' added value:
We assist you in assessing your current forecasting performance, in benchmarking it to Best In Class results and in designing a demand planning framework adapted to your environment. Aspects such as including market intelligence into your demand planning process, setting up a quantitative forecast, reaching demand consensus in your S&OP and selecting the appropriate Software tools are evaluated and customised to your business situation. Such a complete demand management redesign can lead to a forecast accuracy increase of 30% and safety stock reductions of 15%.