Propel your career forward with a Demand Planning Certificate

Lo que aprenderás

• Supply chain management essentials, inventory planning fundamentals, and their role in achieving a balance between supply and demand.
• To lead Demand Planning Processes in the context of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and Collaborative Planning (CPFR).
• To develop quantitative, judgmental, and causal forecasting models for seasonal, intermittent, and new product demand.
• How to choose the right forecasting method for each historical data pattern, and how to improve forecast performance with Machine Learning and Lean Six Sigma principles.
• How to mitigate the risk of inaccurate forecasts and deal with randomness, low forecastability, missing data, outliers, disruptive events, and overfitting.
• How a Make-and-Sell organization can become Demand-Driven, and how Demand Sensing, Data Analysis, and Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP) can improve Supply Chain Response and overall Supply Chain Network performance.