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From Startup to Success: How Moolamore Cash Flow Forecasting Can Boost Your Business

Wishing you could predict cash flow fluctuations with remarkable accuracy and make brilliant decisions to propel your SME company to unprecedented success?

Say goodbye to all your worries! There is a solution on the way! Enter the revolutionary Moolamore cash flow tool into the picture! Join us on this journey from startup to success as we discover how Moolamore can improve your financial management and decision-making processes! Make sure to read this blog to the end!

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Valtitude S & OP

Sales and Operations Planning Process thrives on collaboration and honest communication between key organizational players.  This is a unique process embodying several information sharing sessions and decision forums. The final intent here is to generate an organizational plan and key Sales and Operations issues for the top organizational manager to decide on. 

We kick off the S&OP implementation with an on-site workshop to be attended by your sponsors and stakeholders.  For many companies on the wall about taking the plunge, this workshop will be a key input and bring to fore many company-specific drivers.  Our on-site workshop addresses the following key steps in developing and implementing an effective S&OP process.

By having your key stakeholders attend this workshop, you attain a huge competitive advantage in moving forward the idea of integrated business planning.  

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The Business Plan or the annual Budget often follow the following outline:

Strategic analysis of external factors

Economic

Political

Competitive

Internal Factors

Development of a Sales and Marketing Plan

Calendar Monthly forecast

Operating Budget

Manufacturing Costs

Administrative costs

Sales and Marketing Overheads

Capacity and other bottlenecks

Organizational Consensus

Revisions to Spend and volumes

Management buy-in

Outlining key risks and opportunities to the Annual Budget

Key process driver is forecast reconciliation and a methodology to determine and analyze exceptions. Reconciliation can often be painful. And it can be made worse by a simplistic process lacking an exceptions methodology. Identifying major variances and diagnosing the root-causes for the variance can quickly result in plan consensus.

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VMI and CMI - The Challenge 

The traditional continuous replenishment process (CRP) activity does not truly generate a demand plan that can be integrated into the manufacturer’s Supply Chain for production planning purposes. 

It can be too tactical and short-term oriented and typically focuses on the next two to four weeks. 

The emphasis on order placement and replenishment based on near term activity can be considered a challenge.

Although VMI and CMI are constrained by criticisms of short-term focused and being too tactical, in practice they have been very popular because of their low cost to implement. The key is to leverage low-cost implementation while driving consensus and collaboration and bringing the focus on promotional planning and management. 

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VALTITUDE DEMAND ANALYTICS

Under the six-sigma DMAIC approach, measurement of your current state is a key requirement for diagnostic, design and implementation of the process.  Even for on-going process stability, measurement is critical.  

The Demand Analytics module provides key insights on your planning performance and provides an insightful view of demand volatility, demand visibility and product mix analysis.  It also provides additional insights on comparisons to the budget and annual plan. 

Our Clients have reported improved Demand visibility, forecast accuracy and higher adoption of the S&OP process throughout the organization.

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Event Modeling with Casuals

A typical intervention model using either Box-Jenkins or Holt-Winters methods can help model events as interventions.  This allows you to model even unusual events such as the 2020 Covid19 Pandemic in the United States. A simplified event modeling equation will look like -

Unusual events are also known as black swans. How do we prepare for Black Swan events?

Black Swan events are those highly unpredictable events that occur out of nowhere and cause a systemic shock to the process and the way we do things.  They may perennially alter the way we conduct our business.

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OUR CONSULTING MODEL EMPLOYS THE SIX-SIGMA METHODOLOGY OF DMAIC

Define

Measure

Analyze

Improve and Control

Because of the diverse experience of DemandPlanning.Net Consultants, we can design and deliver the process in almost half the time and resource costs required by some of the bigger consulting houses. We add value to your process design in two ways:

With our knowledge base of best practices and the benchmark industry process, we can analyze and recommend processes and benchmarks rather quickly

Our central philosophy is exception management grounded in the Six-Sigma principles. This helps design a very effective process that is time-efficient as well

A quick three week engagement to assess your organizational readiness for implementing IBP

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Demand Planning & Sales Forecasting Consulting: Design and Development of a Sales Forecasting and Demand Planning program

Utilizing our proficiency enables enterprises to elevate their decision-making, fine-tune inventory management, and swiftly adapt to market changes. Our programs for Sales Forecasting and Demand Planning empower companies to maintain competitiveness, enhance supply chain performance, and foster enduring growth in the contemporary business environment.

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The sales and Operations Planning Process thrives on collaboration and honest communication between key organizational players. This is a unique process embodying several information-sharing sessions and decision forums, with the final intent to generate an organizational Plan and key Sales and Operations issues for the top organizational manager to decide on.

We kick off the S&OP implementation with an on-site workshop to be attended by your sponsors and stakeholders. For many companies on the wall about taking the plunge, this workshop will be a key input and bring to fore many company-specific drivers. Our on-site workshop addresses the following key steps in developing and implementing an effective S&OP process.

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After the reenginnering project, we continue to support our clients who have a thriving SAP landscape. We provide:

Complete Implementation and Re-implementation services

Model Tuning and Algorithm Optimization for Demand, Inventory and Supply in SAP IBP

Support to maintain your SCM planning Views, Macros, Alerts and Process Chain Cycles

Continuous support for IBP Implementations

If you are an SAP IBP client with significant challenges with your implementation and finding it hard to use the system, please contact us today to see how we can help you. Our initial consultation and scoping exercise is complementary.

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Business planning is critical for every company. Often conducted as an annual exercise the business plan is the volume, cost and profit plan for the upcoming year. This is also referred to as the annual budgeting process.  

It is common knowledge that longer-term forecasts are more erroneous than short-term forecasts. There are more dynamic variables and error processes at play in determining the conditions expected to prevail in the future. So it is necessary to subject your forecast to a sensitivity analysis to understand the robustness of the forecast.  

Valtitude has developed a unique methodology to develop long-term forecasting and analyzing the forecast sensitivity.  

Often the annual Marketing Plan is the driver for the demand information in the annual budget. The Marketing Plan is developed with a volume forecast for the year along with the spend levels necessary to create and sustain the expected demand for the products. The process for Market share forecasting is explained here. Marketing-mix modeling is a key component of developing the Marketing Plan.  The Business Plan or the annual Budget often follows the following outline: 

Capacity and other bottlenecks 

Organizational Consensus 

Revisions to Spend and volumes 

Management buy-in 

Internal Factors. 

Development of a Sales and Marketing Plan 

Calendar Monthly forecast 

Strategic analysis of external factors: 

           - Economic 

            - Political 

             - Competitive 

Operating Budget 

            - Manufacturing Costs 

            - Administrative costs 

            - Sales and Marketing Overheads

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Exploring the Best Cash Flow Forecasting Tools: A Comprehensive Comparison

Are you fed up with the financial uncertainty affecting your business? Do you wish there was a way to easily monitor and precisely predict your ins and outs, allowing you to make well-informed decisions about the next steps for your small business?

If so, you're in for a treat! Prepare to transform your financial management and planning as we explore cash flow forecasting with the industry's best tool, Moolamore. Discover its amazing features, advantages, and everything in between. This comprehensive blog guide will explain why this is the solution you've been searching for.

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VALTITUDE SALES AND OPERATIONS PLANNING

Manufacturers in the Consumer Packages Goods Sector were the early adopters of Supply Chain Forecasting. Catering to the firm's demand of the retail partners, CPG manufacturers focused on minimizing the forecast error to drive fill rates and lower inventory carrying costs. 

As a natural progression, CPG companies started adopting the S&OP process to develop forecast consensus and holistic planning.

Most of their supply chains have an active S&OP process, which is cross-functional with participation from Sales, Marketing, Logistics, Supply Planning, Finance, Sales Planning, and Demand Planning. Typically, there is a one-number philosophy although the more practical processes advocate tolerances between forecasts with different objectives.

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VALTITUDE BUSINESS PLANNING

Business planning is critical for every company, while long-term forecasting is indispensable for companies with longer product development cycles. The long-term plan provides the inputs for capacity planning and other long-term expansion initiatives.

It is common knowledge that longer-term forecasts are more erroneous than short-term forecasts. There are more dynamic variables and error processes at play in determining the conditions expected to prevail in the future. So it is also necessary to subject your forecast to sensitivity analysis to understand the robustness of the forecast if the underlying economic and business environment changes. Valtitude has developed a unique methodology to develop long-term forecasting and analyzing forecast sensitivity.

Often the annual Marketing Plan is the driver for the demand information in the annual budget. The Marketing Plan is developed with a volume forecast for the year along with the spend levels necessary to create and sustain the expected demand for the products. Marketing-mix modeling is a key component of developing the Marketing Plan.

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How is Co-managed Inventory (CMI) different from VMI? 

CMI is similar to VMI except the supplier manages the replenishment process and develops forecasts in the customer’s system. A key example of this process will be the supplier process adopted by Wal-mart as well as the JDA E3 process used by the Drug Chains like Eckerd, Rite-Aid, and CVS. 

The customer provides system access to the supplier. 

The supplier has visibility to POS at the store level, Store & DC inventory and reviews the information and generates an order in the customer's system. 

The key difference is that the order placed by the supplier is still a recommendation and is not a firm order until approved by the customer. In a VMI process, the order generated by the supplier on the customer's behalf is a firm order to deliver product and bill the customer. 

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VALTITUDE SCM ANALYTICS

With Planvida, the Supply Chain Scorecard process can be completed in minutes.  

Every month, you get all the KPIs for your S&OP in a few minutes - ready to go on Day 2 morning.  

Some clients want the SCM analytics implemented first as this gives you end-to-end insights into your entire supply chain.  Our SCM anlaytics cloud gives you key insights into your customer service, inventory metrics, production adherence to plan, lead-time compliance and several control charts for tracking supply chain functional performance to plan. 

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