Contact:

Demand Planning, LLC.

Post Office Box 261

Lexington, MA 02420.

 

(T) 781.316.8299

 

 

VCP Associates is now Demand Planning, LLC!

 

Demand Planning, LLC offers specialized consulting in Sales forecasting, Supply Chain Analytics, Sales and Operations Planning, and Account Based Forecasting.  Through our educational and coaching website DemandPlanning.Net, we offer customized workshops designed to develop your in-house demand planning and supply chain resources.   

The Service offerings include...

1.      Demand Planning Process Audit and Diagnostics.  Process audit examines the as-is process and compares it to the industry benchmarks to highlight areas of improvement.  Typically, we do a rapid diagnostics by studying key Performance Measures, build them where necessary, and by interviewing key employees and stakeholders.  The deliverable is an ROI analysis for the re-engineering proposition and bring to focus areas that yield maximum pay-offs to such an effort.

2.   Business Process Re-engineering.  Help you create value-enhancing business processes.  Our main practice areas are:

  1. Demand Planning and Sales Forecasting

  2. Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)

  3. Supply Chain Analytics

  4. Account Based Forecasting and CPFR©

  5. Supply Chain Readiness for Product Launch (Entry and Exit Strategies)

3.   Performance Measurement Design.  Design and develop a menu of performance metrics to your decision makers.  We help your organization implement a holistic  Performance measurement and incentive alignment process.  The performance Metrics covered include Forecast Error, Persistent Bias, Working Capital Performance, Customer Service Metrics, Transportation and Distribution Metrics.

4.   Demand Planning In-House Workshops.  Provide Customized workshops to Demand Planning, Forecasting and Supply Planning staff on demand forecasting, CPFR, S&OP and consensus planning.  The workshops can be customized to key company data and simulated situations. 

5.   Benchmarking Workshops.  Bring together peer companies and facilitate comparison of specific supply chain practices.  This will include participating in a survey and attending a one-day workshop which will cover the results of the benchmark comparisons.  We offer the following Benchmarking tracks:

  • Demand Planning and Forecasting

  • Supply Chain and Performance Metrics

  • Sales and Operations Planning

  • CPFR Process and Systems 

Demand Planning, LLC provides DemandPlanning.net as a knowledge portal containing presentations, articles, FAQs, reference material on demand planning software, and other information on major industry events.  You can also post supply chain specific questions to get a customized response from us. 

Contact:

 

Mark Chockalingam,

Principal,

Demand Planning, LLC

Phone:  781.316.8299

 

Joan Kopp

Vice President

JMK Consulting

Phone:  617.699.9861

Our mailing address:

Demand Planning, LLC

Post Office Box 261

Lexington, MA 02420.