Demand planning - celver AG

The heart of supply chain planning

Requirements planning is at the heart of every supply chain planning process. It bridges the gap between sales forecasts, orders received and overdue orders and current stock levels. It enables companies to forecast future demand ("unconstrained demand"), compare it with the company's capacities ("constrained demand") and, if necessary, adjust the company's performance accordingly.

Sophisticated demand calculation takes into account a large number of key figures and thus ensures the company's ability to deliver at any time and any place. Thanks to high-performance systems and the support of AI, it is now possible to calculate a wide variety of scenarios in real time along the entire supply chain despite the complex calculations and thus react quickly to the adapted demand situation.

We are also happy to support you in optimizing your requirements planning. Based on tried-and-tested templates and best-practice templates, we define the planning process that is right for you and quickly create visible results. Our tip: Start with a joint workshop to determine the ideal planning process for your specific requirements.

To the workshops

The art of demand planning is to integrate the various sub-plans. An intelligent planning solution supports the planner in analyzing and planning actual orders, a statistical forecast, quantity contracts as well as new and discontinued items via a central screen.

Our services for you

Design target processes

In joint workshops, we define your individual target planning process. In the process, we determine the target process that makes the most sense for your company situation either on the basis of our best-practice templates through GAP-Fit or using the Green Field Approach.

Define dimension and data model

We work with you to develop the ideal data model for your planning processes - from the dimensional structure and hierarchical relationships to the organization and processing of metadata.

Implement planning processes

We integrate the planning solution into your system landscape and implement it in the platform that suits you best.

Integrate planning

For a seamless flow of information and efficient processes, we support you in integrating your planning solution into the system landscape and in connecting all operational systems.

Optimize and automate forecasts with AI

Use the potential of state-of-the-art technologies and methods for automation: Through statistical models, mathematical derivations as well as machine learning, we raise your forecast process to a new level.

Benefit from our prepared framework for automated forecasts. The framework contains an ensemble of state-of-the-art forecasting methods and self-learning algorithms and selects the mathematical model with the most plausible results per time series for each run. The advantage: you no longer have to worry about the calculations and logic in the background.

In addition to historical data, you can also incorporate external information such as weather data, inventory data or market analyses such as IHS data in the automotive sector into the forecast. This allows you to keep an eye on all trends and developments, even for product ranges with thousands of items.

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