Planning and Coordinating Demand and Supply in a Supply Chain

• Demand forecasting in a supply chain
• Aggregate planning in a supply chain
• Sales and operations planning: planning supply and demand in a supply chain
• Coordination in a supply chain

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to understand:

• The role of forecasting for both an enterprise and a supply chain.
• The components of a demand forecast.
• How to forecast demand in a supply chain given historical demand data using time-series methodologies.
• How to analyse demand forecasts to estimate forecast error.
• The importance of aggregate planning as a supply chain activity.
• The information needed to produce an aggregate plan and the outputs obtained.
• The basic trade-offs to consider when creating an aggregate plan.
• How to formulate and solve basic aggregate planning problems.
• How to manage supply to improve synchronisation in a supply chain in the face of predictable variability.
• How to use sales and operations planning to maximise profitability when faced with predictable variability in a supply chain.
• Supply chain coordination and the bullwhip effect, and their impact on supply chain performance.
• The obstacles to coordination in a supply chain.
• The managerial levers that help achieve coordination in a supply chain.
• The different forms of collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment that are possible in a supply chain.