In today's rapidly changing global supply chain market, with virtual enterprise model becoming very common, the need to run a demand-driven supply chain business has become very critical. Predicting the future demand accurately and responding to it in a timely fashion leads to an optimized and profitable supply chain.

Oracle Demantra's Demand Planning solution caters this basic need of organizations by providing them a platform to enhance their demand and supply chain process. Oracle Demantra product provides a web based collaborative platform to generate most accurate forecast using its unique Bayesian modeling technique. It has been seen that while most of the organizations today realize the importance and benefits of Demantra, in many cases the total cost of building an integrated Demantra environment is out of IT budget limits.

ennVee's Oracle Demantra Service provides Demand driven business solutions which optimize the forecasting process in the world's top companies, using best of breed technology for forecasting - Demantra.

Approach:

• Provide high impact assessment of your existing demand planning environment and business process.
• Create a strategic demand management process featuring Oracle Demantra product.
• Our implementation services deliver tailored business solution within the right time frame and budget,
  while enhancing your unique competitive value in the marketplace.

Best Practices

  Proactive Planning

Get answers to the following questions before embarking on an implementation for better understanding of the Business and its requirements

• Product Information
• Customer Information
• Details on Planning Cycle
• KPI's and other measures desired
• Sources of data
• Collaboration needs
• Supply-Demand Picture
• Expectations from Demand Planning

Recommend that organizations first implement Demand Planning followed by the other solutions

• Derive benefits from Sales perspective (revenue) which will build momentum for the solution within the enterprise
• This is the core module and understanding the Demand Planning module helps build the confidence to use either
  Trade and Promotions management or Sales and Operations Planning

Ensure that there is enough historical data that can be used to set the forecasting models

Need to have a performance measurement plan for the data extracts

Value Proposition

• Move towards becoming a lean Demand-driven business
• Develop Proactive response to Demand
• Improve volume forecasting
• Reduce warehouse and inventory carrying costs
• Reduce Planning Cycle time