Demand

Training Overview

The curriculum will walk you through the key features of Demand,

how to work in the Demand Workbench, different forecasting techniques, the importance of the market intelligence in forecasting, & how to manage a product

throughout its lifecycle. The curriculum is also designed with hands-on

exercises to enable you to practice key concepts taught in the lessons.

Audience Profile

EndUser

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Content Outline

Lesson Objectives

  • Explain what demand forecasting is & its benefits
  • Identify the components of a Demand Forecasting Unit
  • Explain the roles & responsibilities of a demand planner

Lesson Exercises

  • Not Applicable

Lesson Objectives

  • Identify the key input tables
  • Explain the key Demand processes
  • Identify the key output tables
  • Review the forecast data on DFU & DFUMAP pages
  • Review & validate aggregated history
  • Calculate Forecast at all levels
  • Compare & reconcile forecast data

Lesson Exercises

  • Not Applicable

Lesson Objectives

  • Navigate through the JDA Platform Ul
  • Retrieve & display data using searches
  • Review data on a Flexible Editor (FE) page
  • Populate data in a Compound Workspace

Lesson Exercises

  • Accessing JDA Demand
  • Displaying Data on a Flexible Editor Page Using Search
  • Functionality
  • Opening an FE Page from Solution Navigation in a New Tab with a Prompted Search
  • Opening an FE Page from the Search Bar in a New Tab with a Prompted Entry List Search
  • Navigating from One FE to Another Using Related Pages
  • Using Filters
  • Accessing Online Help
  • Editing Data
  • Using Compound Workspaces
  • Working with Favorites

Lesson Objectives

  • Describe the features & functionality of the Demand Workbench
  • Navigate in the Demand Workbench to view & manipulate data & model parameters
  • Understand how the Demand Workbench is configured

Lesson Exercises

  • Viewing the Components of Demand Workbench
  • Customizing the Demand Workbench Page

Lesson Objectives

  • Describe the history cleansing process & its methods
  • Explain the Calculate Lost Sales process & the three methods for calculating the lost sales adjustments
  • Explain the calculation history adjustments process & the two methods for calculating history adjustments

Lesson Exercises

  • Use the Cleanse History Process & Review the Results

Lesson Objectives

  • Describe each algorithm used by Demand
  • Define the type of products that are most suitable for each algorithm
  • Understand which products in your business would work best with each algorithm

Lesson Exercises

  • Not Applicable

Lesson Objectives

  • Describe the purpose of Demand Classification
  • List the three ways of running the Demand Classification process
  • Explain the three stages in the Demand Classification process

Lesson Exercises

  • Review Classify DFUs & Tune Parameters Process Page & Output Results
  • Run Classify DFUs Process & Review Results

Lesson Objectives

  • Define the components of a time series model
  • Describe the key model parameters for the Moving Average algorithm
  • Explain the steps to fine-tune the Moving Average algorithm

Lesson Exercises

  • Working with the Moving Average Algorithm

Lesson Objectives

  • Define the components of a time series model
  • Explain how the system fits the Model
  • Describe the key model parameters for the Fourier algorithm
  • Describe how to fine-tune the Fourier algorithm

Lesson Exercises

  • Including Seasonal Terms to the Model
  • Increasing the Significant Amplitude Factor
  • Adjusting the Outlier Factor
  • Adjusting the Time Weighting Factor
  • Changing the Trend for a DFU

Lesson Objectives

  • Describe the key Lewandowski algorithm parameters
  • Explore how & when to fine-tune the Lewandoski algorithm parameters
  • Recognize statistical error measurements

Lesson Exercises

  • Changing the Dynamic means the Impact
  • Adjusting the Trend Method
  • Utilizing the Seasonality Features of the Lewandowski Model

Lesson Objectives

  • Explain how the system fits the Model using the AVS-Graves algorithm
  • Describe the key AVS-Graves algorithm parameters
  • Explain how & when to fine-tune the AVS-Graves algorithm parameters
  • Explain the error measurement calculations

Lesson Exercises

  • Tuning the Forecast Using the Smoothing Constant & Frequency Factor

Lesson Objectives

  • Apply seasonality changes that affect the Forecast
  • Manage Seasonality libraries
  • Create a seasonality profile
  • Attach a seasonal profile with a DFU
  • Explore other options on the Seasonality Manager menu

Lesson Exercises

  • Creating a Seasonality Profile
  • Attaching a Seasonal Profile in Seasonality Manager
  • Attaching a Seasonal Profile in Demand Workbench
  • Adjusting the Seasonality Impact Parameter

Lesson Objectives

  • Apply modelling or management approaches to address exceptions
  • Explain the system-generated exceptions to identify potential model problems
  • Interpret Exception Graphs

Lesson Exercises

  • Viewing Exceptions for All DFUs
  • Comparing Exception Points for the Selected DFUs

Lesson Objectives

  • Describe the importance of market intelligence in forecasting
  • Describe the nine forecast types—Statistical Forecast, Aggregate
  • Market Activities (created by MapDFU-Forecast process), Impact of Lock,
  • Reconciled Forecast, Promotion, Forecast Override, Market Activity, - -
  • Data-Driven Event (Lewandowski only), & Impact of Target
  • Cleanse history using overrides, Data-Driven Events (DDEs), masks, & mean value adjustments
  • Explain what is included in good history
  • Copy & link Data-Driven Events
  • Work with the target, mean value modifications, & locks to support your Forecast
  • Describe related applications providing market intelligence data

Lesson Exercises

  • Applying History Overrides to the DFUs History
  • Applying History Overrides Using the Override Manager Tool
  • Flexible Allocation
  • Adding Data-Driven Events Using the Demand Workbench
  • Linking a Data-Driven Event to the Forecast
  • Optimize the Mean Value in History with Lewandowski Algorithm
  • Modify the Mean Value in History with the Lewandowski Algorithm
  • Adjusting the Mean Value for the Forecast
  • Adding in a Locked Forecast Range

Lesson Objectives

  • Forecast new products using features such as Copy History, New
  • Product Introduction, Lifecycles, & Launch Profiles
  • Discontinue & phase out items within the Demand application
  • New DFU Introduction (Replacing an Existing DFU) Creating an
  • Allocation Profile in Launch Manager

Lesson Exercises

  • Copy History
  • New DFU Introduction (Replacing an Existing DFU) Creating an
  • Allocation Profile in Launch Manager

Lesson Objectives

  • Describe the purpose, benefits, & Impact of measuring forecast accuracy
  • Examine the factors that impact forecast performance
  • Explain the process of closing the forecasting period
  • Explain how to store forecast performance data
  • Explain how to conduct a flexible editor-based forecast performance analysis

Lesson Exercises

  • Review Forecast Performance

Lesson Objectives

  • Recognize demand planner Roles & Responsibilities
  • Schedule activities
  • Execute a sequence of activities to forecast the Demand

Lesson Exercises

  • Not Applicable

Lesson Objectives

  • Explain the methods to Calculate Lost Sales
  • Explain the methods to Calculate History Adjustments
  • Describe a Moving Event & state the importance of configuring it
  • Explain how to work with Moving Events
  • Apply a Moving Event to a DFU

Lesson Exercises

  • Calculating Lost Sales Using the History Average Method
  • Calculating Lost Sales Using the Forecast Performance Metrics Method
  • Calculating Lost Sales Using the Allocated Forecast Method
  • Calculating History Adjustments
  • Calculating History Adjustments
  • Applying a Moving Event to a DFU 

Lesson Objectives

  • Use time series concepts to determine a valid Multiple Linear
  • Regression (MLR) model
  • Describe the key model statistics for the MLR algorithm
  • Describe the parameters used to fine-tune MLR models

Lesson Exercises

  • Reviewing the Causal Factors for a DFU

Lesson Objectives

  • Explain how the Croston model uses exponential smoothing concepts to determine the Forecast
  • Describe the Croston Model parameters

Lesson Exercises

  • Using Demand Size Smoothing Parameter for Croston Algorithm

Lesson Objectives

  • Use exponential smoothing concepts to determine a valid Holt-Winters model
  • Explain how the system fits the Holt-Winters model
  • Describe the key model statistics for Holt-Winters
  • Recognize & recall how to fine-tune the Holt-Winters algorithm

Lesson Exercises

  • Exploring Holt's Single or Simple Exponential Smoothing Method
  • Exploring Holt's Linear Trend Model
  • Using the Multiplicative Seasonality Option & Reviewing the
  • Impact on Holt's Seasonal Smoothing Algorithm
  • Exploring Holt-Winters' Linear Model with Damp Factor Impact
  • Exploring the Holt-Winters' Parameters Optimization Option & Holdout Periods

Lesson Objectives

  • Define Profile-Based Forecasting
  • Explain how to create profiles using the Extract Profile process
  • Explain how to Calculate Model generates forecasts using Profile-
  • Based Forecasting algorithm

Lesson Exercises

  • Reviewing the Profile-Based Forecasting DFU Parameters & Hierarchy Levels
  • Reviewing the Demand Parameter Manager & PBF Model Forecast

Lesson Objectives

  • Define the Short Lifecycle algorithm
  • Define & prioritize DFU attributes
  • Explain how the Short Lifecycle process works
  • Describe the Bass Diffusion model of the Short Lifecycle algorithm

Lesson Exercises

  • Reviewing the Short Lifecycle Model & Its Parameters
  • Reviewing the Impact of Short Lifecycle Algorithm Parameters

Lesson Objectives

  • Describe how the attach rate forecasting process works
  • Define the various terminologies used in attach rate forecasting
  • List the methods & steps to define attach rate forecasting

Lesson Exercises

  • Creating Attach Rate
  • Calculating Dependent Demand

Lesson Objectives

  • Define Demand 360
  • Recognize the capabilities of Demand 360
  • Identify the different Worksheet components

Lesson Exercises

  • Not Applicable

Lesson Objectives

  • Explain what Right Level to Forecast is
  • Explain what Right Level to Forecast is
  • Explain the steps involved in Right Level to Forecast process

Lesson Exercises

  • Not Applicable

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