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Business problem

Demand Planning & Forecasting

How wrong the forecast is, in which direction, and where the error is worth fixing.

Forecast error is easy to compute and easy to compute wrongly. The number moves with the grain it is measured at, the lag it is measured from, and whether errors are weighted by volume before they are averaged — so two teams can report the same forecast as accurate and as poor without either being mistaken. The definitions here make each of those switches explicit and name the house convention; the monthly-cycle and plan-vs-actual patterns carry the same discipline into the review meeting, where the harder question is whose plan the actual is being scored against. The reference builds run the full chain over simulated data — from the forecast override that makes accuracy worse, through the cycle review that locks a plan, to the planner-grade instrument that splits a miss into volume, mix, price and timing.

Metric definitions

Computable definitions from the KPI Dictionary — every decision switch made explicit, with the formula and the source tables in each ERP.

Dashboard patterns

A wireframe paired with the star schema underneath it: fact grain, measures with their additivity rules, and the source tables per reference.

Reference builds

Working implementations of the definitions and patterns above, running over frozen, simulated data. Not a resource and not a case study — no client data, and no client named.

Simulated data, frozen snapshot — not a live client system.

In the references

Where this data lives in each source system. A way into the ERP references, not an index of them — every reference landing lists all of its modules.

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