{"id":1428,"date":"2017-12-23T20:50:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T20:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2020-04-27T13:34:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T20:34:53","slug":"planning-and-demand-forecasting-are-too-unreliable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/planning-and-demand-forecasting-are-too-unreliable\/","title":{"rendered":"Low competitiveness and poor ability to respond to demand: Planning and demand forecasting are too unreliable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In the conference room are meeting: Christian (CFO), Peter (Production Manager), Simon (Sales Manager), Irene (IT Manager), and Paul (Purchasing Manager).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Agenda title:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/low-competitiveness-poor-ability-respond-demand.png\" alt=\"Low competitiveness and poor ability to respond to demand\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although it varies from company to company, you might want to examine the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you have a way to link sales data and historic business information to the forecasting effort?<\/li>\n<li>Can you plan and forecast company-wide, or do your regional offices perform their own planning efforts?<\/li>\n<li>How do forecasts affect production planning? How quickly do forecasts translate into production?<\/li>\n<li>Do you involve your suppliers and business partners in your planning process? Have any of them asked to be involved?<\/li>\n<li>Do you involve your sales force in the forecasting process? Would it be beneficial to get their input? In what way?<\/li>\n<li>Do you hold regular sales and operations planning meetings? What data or information is reviewed? How helpful are these meetings?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the conference room are meeting: Christian (CFO), Peter (Production Manager), Simon (Sales Manager), Irene (IT Manager), and Paul (Purchasing Manager). The Agenda title: Although it varies from company to company, you might want to examine the following:&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}