Demantra Demand Management Fundamentals

Learn about demand management fundamentals as they pertain to Oracle Demantra Demand Management. This course tours through the Collaborative Workbench and worksheets from a user perspective. Students learn how to use the Collaborative Workbench and worksheets to forecast, work collaboratively, analyze accuracy and automate exception reports. Learn how to introduce new products and combinations and create forecasts based on the performance of similar products and locations using chaining tools. Shape forecasts based on observed trends and causal factors, and align forecasts with results. Learn how to use advanced features to make the most use of the Collaborator Workbench and work offline.

Learn To:

• Collaborative Workbench navigation
• Forecasting
• Analyzing forecast performance
• Introducing new products
• Chaining
• Collaborative Workbench navigation

Audience

• End Users
• Functional Implementer

Course Topics Introduction to Demantra Demand Management

• Understand demand-driven adaptive planning
• Understand where Demand Management fits in the Oracle E-Business Suite, and how it interacts with the other products in the Oracle Demantra suite
• Understand the capabilities and benefits of Demand Management
• Understand the demand planning process

Navigating the Collaborator Workbench and Worksheets

• Use the Collaborator Workbench
• Navigate within worksheets and views
• Interpreting data shown in worksheets
• Analyze results at different levels of aggregation
• Changing data in a worksheet

Creating and Formatting Worksheets

• Create a new worksheet
• Use the Worksheet Designer to customize the views, series, time, aggregation levels, and filters in a worksheet

Forecasting

• Understand the role of forecasting in demand planning
• Understand batch vs. similation forecasting
• Adjust a forecast and simulate "what if" results
• Add notes to a worksheet
• Review a worksheet audit trail
• Approve the forecast
• Share the forecast with other users

Understanding Forecast Accuracy and Exceptions

• Analyze the forecast accuracy in worksheets
• Set exception filtering
• Run exception filtering

Introducing New Products with Member Management

• Understand the benefits of using Demantra to introduce new products
• Understand Demantra's different data tables
• Understand combinations
• Understand ways new items can be introduced
• Define new items and locations in the worksheet and Member Management

Chaining and Shaping

• Understand the benefit of chaining
• Populate a new item with data based on one or more products
• Forecast the demand for the new product
• Understand the benefits of shape modeling and alignment
• Record and apply a demand shape to a product forecast
• Align the forecast with the latest sales figures to develop more accurate forecasts

Advanced Worksheet Topics

• Use the Open With mechanism
• Embed worksheets
• Create and display user-defined content panes
• Set up your offline environment
• Export offline worksheets
• Work offline
• Upload changes to server
• Export worksheet combination data to Excel

Course Objectives

• Finalize forecasts
• Use forecast accuracy and exceptions
• Introduce new products using methods and Member Management
• Create combinations
• Create sample forecasts for new products using chaining and shape modeling
• Align a new product forecast based on actual sales
• Use the dashboard to filter worksheets by product category
• Embed a worksheet in an existing worksheet
• Create and display user-defined content panes
• Export worksheets and work with worksheets offline
• Understand the Demantra Demand Management capabilities
• Understand the planning process and roles
• Understand the Collaborator Workbench application and work with others
• Navigate, create and format worksheets
• Perform baseline forecasting and simulations
• Use notes and audit trails