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Jeanne Lee Wed, Jul 03, 2013
Depending on who you are speaking with, and the context of your conversation, sales forecasting can mean A LOT of different things; a salesman thinks in terms of units and revenue, accounting pro’s think in terms of budget and corporate financial planning etc. The group of people who are most often left out of these conversations entirely? That would be the supply chain management professionals and supply chain planners.
There are numerous methods, strategies, and best practices for supply chain management; this blog will speak to a few of them, but don’t miss the link at the end to a comprehensive white paper we wrote on the subject! The white paper elaborates on a few of the items in this blog and gets into a much more detailed discussion of these strategies, best practices, and how this all factors into MRP/MRP.
But in the mean time…
There are four primary ways to develop sales forecast that are directly related to who is exactly is in charge of the prep:
Forecasting Best Practices
Forecasting is not an exact science, but there are a few things you can do to help yourself such as:
To get even further into this topic we put together a complete guide to sales forecasting from a supply chain management perspective and continue on into how your sales forecasting will factor into MRP & DRP. Download the white paper at no cost here
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