How to Build a Supply Plan in Excel
A supply plan doesn't need to be complicated to be useful. At its core, it's a simple balance: opening inventory, plus what's coming in, minus what's going out, rolled forward week by week. Here's how to build one that actually holds up.
How to Build a Demand Forecast in Excel
You don't need expensive forecasting software to build a decent demand forecast. Most businesses, especially ones with a few hundred SKUs rather than a few hundred thousand, can get a genuinely useful forecast out of Excel. Here's how to actually build one.
Demand Planning vs Supply Planning: What's the Difference?
These two get used almost interchangeably in casual conversation, and in a lot of smaller businesses, one person quietly does both. That's fine at small scale.
What Is Supply Planning?
If demand planning answers "what are we going to sell," supply planning answers the question that actually determines whether that matters: can we make it, and get it where it needs to be, in time?
What Is Demand Planning? A Practical Guide
Ask ten people what demand planning is and most will say "forecasting." That's not wrong, but it's incomplete in a way that causes real problems.
What Is S&OP? A Practical Guide for People Who Actually Have to Run It
What S&OP actually is, why most meetings fail to produce decisions, and how to fix it. A practical guide, not another five-box diagram.
