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Characteristics Used in Demand Planning
Affiliate Demand Forecast will either be entered directly into APO
(GOLF goes away)
Hemispherica + ROW enter directly into Mercury APO
Canada flat file sent to APO
One System
ECC to APO
APO DP to APO SNP
Demand Planning Alerts
Statistical Forecasting
Generation of Proportional Factors
Flexibility in Time-Based Disaggregation of Monthly Forecast to
Weekly Buckets
Annual Planning Book
Generation of Long Range Capacity Planning Forecast
New tools and reports for Demand Planners
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Demand Plant Deployment
Inventory Network
Planning Planning Planning
Review Planning

Generate Base New Product Transfer demand Execute Execute

Demand Introductions From DP to SNP Planning Deployment
Runs Runs

Gather/Generate Determine
Inventory Execute Review and
Forecast for Review and
Planning Planning Runs Update
Events Update Planning
Policies and Planning
Results
Parameters Results
Gather/Generate Review and
NPI Calculate Update Planning Convert
Forecast Finished Goods Results Planned Order Deployment
Safety Stock in to Process Execution
simulation Order
Consolidate and version Convert Orders
Consensus & Interface Include
Feedback from
Calculate Plants and 3rd
Include
Forecast Unconstrained party
Feedback from
Release plan Suppliers
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party
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Suppliers
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Regional Management
Affiliate Demand Daily Exception
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➢ Base Open Stock
➢ Cosmetics Open Stock
➢ Displays
➢ Skin ID
■ Data / Tools Used to Generate Base Demand
➢ New Characteristics
➢ Planning Books: Base Demand, Displays, Point of Sale (POS), Annual
Planning
➢ Statistical Forecasting
➢ Proportional Factor Maintenance
➢ Alerts
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