Title: Demand Management And Forecasting
1Demand Management And Forecasting
- Demand Management and Forecasting Basics
- Short-Term Forecasting Techniques
2Core MRP II
Manufacturing Resource Planning
3Demand Management And Forecasting Basics
- Forecasts versus orders
- Aggregate versus disaggregate forecasts
- Forecast evaluation MAD versus Bias
- Forecast techniques causal versus time series
- Forecast (time series) components
4Forecast Versus Orders
- Forecasts
- Are always wrong
- Become less accurate farther out
- Are necessary if manufacturing lead time is long
relative to sales lead time - Confirmed orders
- Are (almost) always right
- May arrive too late to meet customer's desired
delivery date
5Aggregate Versus Disaggregate Forecasts
- Sales forecasts can be aggregated with respect to
time
6Aggregate Versus Disaggregate Forecasts
- Sales forecasts can be aggregated with respect to
time
7Aggregate Versus Disaggregate Forecasts
- Sales forecasts can be aggregated with respect to
product
8Aggregate Versus Disaggregate Forecasts
- Sales forecasts can be aggregated with respect to
product
9Aggregate Versus Disaggregate Forecasts
- Why? Aggregate forecasts are more accurate than
individual detailed forecasts
10Aggregate Versus Disaggregate Forecasts
- Why? Aggregate forecasts are more accurate than
individual detailed forecasts
11Aggregate Versus Disaggregate Forecasts
- Use aggregate forecasts for planning long-range
overall production levels. - High long-range forecast accuracy
- Detail not needed for planning long-range
resource use (labor, inventory, etc.) - Use detailed forecasts for initial detailed
medium-range Master Production Schedule (MPS) - Detailed forecasts reasonably accurate for this
time frame - Need product-specific detail for MPS
12Aggregate Versus Disaggregate Forecasts
- Make final short-range changes to MPS based on
latest orders - 100 accuracy
13Forecast Evaluation
- Need to compare forecast to actual sales
- BIAS
- Too high or to low (on average)?
- Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD)
- Off by how much, per period (on average)?
- Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE)
- A relative measure of MAD
14Forecast Evaluation
- Need to introduce terminology
15Forecast Evaluation
16Forecast Evaluation
17Forecast Evaluation
18Forecast Techniques Causal Versus Time Series
- Causal techniques
- Assume sales are determined by other variables
which can be tracked - Regression
- Econometric
- Time series (autoprojection) techniques
- Make no assumption about what causes sales
- Identify patterns in past data
- Project those patterns into the future
19Time Series Components
- Predictable components
- Base level
- Trend
- Seasonality
- Unpredictable components
- Randomness
- All time series techniques work by
- Smoothing randomness out of the past data
- Projecting the leftover pattern implied by these
predictable components into the future