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Demand Planning
What we think will be wanted, who disagreed, and how close last quarter turned out to be.
In Supply Chain → Planning · 6 screens
| Screen | Kind | What it is | Columns | Fields | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demand Planning Board | Workspace | The history, the statistical forecast and what was agreed, item by item and period by period, with the plan drawn against what actually happened. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Demand Plans | List | A named, dated statement of what is expected. Versioned rather than overwritten: last month plan is what this month accuracy is measured against, and editing one in place destroys the only evidence anybody has. | 13 | 17 | 2 |
| Forecast Lines | List | One item, one place, one period. Five quantities, because the statistical number, what sales think, what marketing think, what was agreed and what happened are five different facts. | 12 | 19 | 0 |
| Forecast Models | List | How a statistical forecast is calculated. Held as data so a planner can add one without a deployment, and so a run can record which it used. | 9 | 15 | 0 |
| Demand Signals | List | Demand that is not a forecast: a signed order, a likely quotation, a weighted opportunity, a dependent requirement. One place for a planning run to read demand from, and it can say where every unit came from. | 11 | 16 | 1 |
| Forecast Accuracy | Read-only list | Was the forecast any good. Which items are forecastable at all is usually a more useful answer than a better model. | 11 | 0 | 0 |