Consensus Planning Features and Functions
Consensus planning is a method to create a "one number" forecast for the enterprise. Within complex organizational structures, many professionals are responsible for planning in different areas, such as product marketing for product and product families; sales for territory sales plans; channel and alliance management for channel forecasts; finance for revenue and corporate strategic plans; and manufacturing for shipment or off-the-dock plans. The wide range of professionals involved often creates confusion, poor coordination, and missed business opportunities when sales are missed or excess inventories mount. Ultimately, a process must produce a forecast, one number, upon which the supply chain will act.
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- Creates planning environments for each business organization, including marketing, finance, sales, operations, and planning
- Side-by-side comparisons of each forecast input
- Evaluates forecast history by user or department and applies or validates accuracy measures
- Rates and recommends forecasts based on past performance
- Creates peer-to-peer and hierarchal structures to link users by role or chain-of-command
- Grants access and participation to plan assumptions and numbers
- Rates history based on past plan accuracy
- Build scenarios to create a One Number plan based on performance scores, user controls, and other factors
- Creates and saves planning discussions, variance, and alternatives that are used to evaluate the history and performance of plans
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Demand Management Features and Functions
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