Using Demand Forecasts for S&OP in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012: Part 1
January 8 2013
Demand forecasts - also termed sales forecasts - often provide a key element of the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) game plans for stocked products. Effective use of demand forecasts involves several interrelated issues, such as the relevant time increments and due dates, forecast consumption policies, and master scheduling logic. These issues often include translating the sales department's version of monthly forecasts into a workable model of demand forecasts for S&OP purposes. Many
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About Scott Hamilton
Scott Hamilton has consulted globally with several hundred manufacturing/distribution companies on SCM and ERP issues. His publications include multiple books about SCM using Dynamics AX as well as two textbooks about SCM/ERP, and his books have been translated into Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Japanese. For more than 10 years, Scott has been a frequent speaker at Microsoft and AXUG conferences around the world, and a multi-year winner of the rarely given Microsoft MVP award for Dynamics AX. His regular column “The AX Solution Architect” is published in MSDynamicsWorld.com.
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