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Two Face of Demand Planning

In ancient Roman religion and myth, the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings was Janus. Janus symbolized change and transitions such as the progress of past to future, from one condition to another, and from one vision to another. He represented time, simultaneously looking into the past with one face and the future with the other. Why the lesson into Roman myths; demand planning performs a critical pivot regarding the connectivity and integration between the forward-looking commercial outlook of an enterprise and short term, detailed supply/production planning. Positioned at the 3-month horizon (nominative cumulative lead-time) the demand plan looks…
Kim Britton
October 20, 2020