Measure, Compare & Improve Your Demand Planning Performance with Market Intelligence

Chainalytics’ Demand Planning Intelligence Consortium (DPIC)

leverages proprietary segmentation techniques and advanced

model-based analytics to assess your performance and

practices against peer companies on over 1,250 distinct

benchmarks, quickly revealing improvement opportunities

and exposing the underlying drivers of portfolio

forecastability and demand volatility.

An organization’s planning performance

influences customer service levels,

inventory investments, working capital

requirements, and overall total cost-to-

deliver.

An enhanced understanding of demand

variability is essential for an organization to

positively impact customer satisfaction,

increase profitability, and successfully grow

the business.

Unlike conventional benchmarking, the

DPIC integrates the best traditional

elements with advanced quantitative

modeling approaches to allow executives

and owners in planning, supply chain, and

product management to objectively

evaluate and quantify demand planning

performance and potential with unrivaled

speed and precision.

As a result, the DPIC reveals specific

improvement opportunities with the

highest return on investment and arms its

member companies with the data needed

to quantify savings associated with lower

inventory investments, reduced expediting

costs, and better planning.

DPIC empowers you to:

►Identify and prioritize quick-win opportunities by business unit, brand, item, item-location, geography, and more

►Set realistic forecast accuracy and bias targets by deriving

what’s achievable at each level of aggregation given the behavior of your detailed demand

►Determine fact-based best practices that are commonly employed by the leaders in the market and map gaps vs. best-in-class for each industry

►Quantify and track demand planning performance changes before and after upgrades, implementations, and improvement initiatives

►Classify sources of variability

and understand how effective you are at managing uncertainty relative to peers

►Plan intelligently for your portfolio, including customer order patterns, promotional effects, economic cycles, seasonality, and new product launches

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How DPIC Works The DPIC approach provides a robust set of descriptive and predictive tools that can be

used to compare and analyze forecast accuracy and bias within the consortium – all while

keeping actual sales and forecasts completely confidential for each member company.

The DPIC is technology-agnostic and utilizes readily-available standard data to enable

quick and easy participation. Using granular data and a standardized methodology, the

DPIC takes a precise snapshot of each firm’s actual forecast accuracy and bias, then

normalizes those metrics against portfolio forecastability and the rest of the dataset. The

analyses and models clearly exhibit the influence of individual demand patterns, product

phases, channel characteristics, and policies on an organization’s ability to forecast

demand efficiently.

DPIC provides quantitative visibility into:

►How your demand behaves

►How difficult your portfolio is to forecast

►How much your forecast accuracy can be improved

►Where to focus your improvement efforts

►What are realistic forecast accuracy targets

►Where forecast bias is introduced into your plan

►What practices are common to high performers

The Bottom Line Chainalytics' proprietary DPIC empowers executives and owners to rapidly

align on their performance expectations, targets, improvement initiatives, and

resource allocation plans. DPIC enables planning teams to directly identify

the source of forecast errors, effectively manage by exception, and pursue

necessary corrections efficiently.

You cannot improve what you do not measure. Join the DPIC today so your

company can begin to better understand and predict how your supply chain

will respond to the evolution of your business and maintain your competitive

advantage in the market.