• Headquartered in Colorado, US

• Specializes in Camping Gear

• Project Done – SAP APO DP Diagnostics

"Demand Planning LLC provided a quick assessment of our SAP APO forecasting and modeling environment during the summer of 2012. Mark Chockalingam of Demand Planning LLC was able to pin-point several factors that were affecting our system performance. He provided some valuable diagnostic findings as take away for our next implementation in another region. Consulting provided by Demand Planning LLC provided a solid baseline for the team to further improve our process. Mark fine-tuned and implemented a seasonal model for our business. This reduced the number of System alerts by almost 60% and improved the quality of the baseline statistical forecasts across the entire business. Mark was able to engage the entire team of planners in this effort and get them excited about statistical modeling.

Coleman was quite pleased with the results from this project and the value received for the investment. We look forward to working with them on future SAP demand planning projects whenever the need arises."

Coleman Senior Director S&OP

Mars Petcare US partnered with the Valtitude team in 2021 to address specific questions and opportunities around the topic of Demand Planning. The objective was to demonstrate how our approach to the quantification of "true demand" could be improved, in support of better forecasts and better service. Valtitude conducted interviews and a diagnostic of our processes, tools and data. Outcomes provided important learnings and insights. That was followed by a proof of concept for a new and improved approach to "true demand", one which was analytically sound and robust, definitely a step forward relative to our previous approaches. Valtitude helped us by bringing to the table in depth knowledge of best practices, and an external perspective that helped us look at our challenges under a new light. As result, we feel confident about having achieved a new level of thought leadership on the topic of true demand, which will help not just our immediate demand planning group, but also have end-to-end impact. Valtitude was the right partner for the types of questions that we had, and we would recommend them for any organization looking to advance their demand planning practices.

- Director Demand Planning, Mars Petcare US

PrettyLitter partnered with Valtitude to transform our planning process to address our growing supply chain complexities and need for real-time information. The project started with a diagnostic assessment of the replenishment process, building an inventory planning template, followed by the implementation of the Planvida Cloud - Demand & Inventory dashboards. Valtitude conducted extensive diagnostic interviews to understand our current state process and data to identify the gaps that are causing our current pain points; the results of this diagnostic process have helped us develop a roadmap to implement a long-term SCM solution. One of our pain points was the lack of inventory visibility and excess inventory – post implementation of the Planvida Cloud – we have 100% inventory visibility on a real-time basis. We have also been able to optimize and reduce our inventory exposure significantly due to precision in replenishment planning. We are extremely pleased with the Valtitude Team for their quick diagnostics, feedback, and the Planvida Cloud solution.  We would happily recommend Valtitude for any supply chain projects or SCM implementations.

- Senior Supply Chain Manager at PrettyLitter

Mars Petcare, US

"Yaskawa America engaged Demand Planning LLC to review our process and tool and to tune our SAP APO demand planning tool. Mark and his team have done an excellent job optimizing our SAP APO system and training our demand planning group to better understand this complex forecasting tool. This project has changed the way we approach our planning process.

Thanks to Mark we are leveraging the full statistical power of SAP APO with the right set of Master profiles with optimized parameter settings. We now have custom modeling profiles enabled for the demand planner to control the model changes. These changes allow us to achieve our goal of exception based planning.

Thanks to Mark and his team we now have a tool and process that allows us to spend our time on managing exceptions and gathering customer information for our demand plan instead of manually manipulating the forecast. I highly recommend Demand Planning LLC for this type of project as well as any of their training classes."

Yaskawa Americas

Ernest Jackson, part of the Mondeléz group and manufacturer of Bassetts Vitamins, partnered with Valtitude to improve our Demand Forecasting process and develop a holistic Demand Consensus process and an approach to our Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP).

The project started with a diagnostic evaluation of our existing business and process model and concluded with the detailed findings which included a gap analysis and opportunities to fine tune our process.

Valtitude conducted diagnostic interviews to understand our sales forecasting process to define our forecast objectives and studied our S&OP monthly cycle to evaluate our metrics and KPls. The team worked extensively to analyse our data models and templates to identify the gaps that are causing our current pain points; the results of this diagnostic process have helped us develop a roadmap to implement a long-term Demand Forecasting process solution. We have since corrected our Demand Metrics process and made key changes to our monthly cycle and stakeholder touch points in the process.

We are extremely pleased with the Valtitude Team for benchmarking our process against the industry best practices and for providing the right recommendations for us to progress in our S&OP Journey. We highly recommend them and will consider bringing them back to do some model tuning of our baseline forecast models in a few months.

- Head of Finance, Mondelez International

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• Headquartered in California, US

• Makes Towels and Linens

• Project Done - Demand & S&OP Diagnostics

"Your objective diagnosis & suggestions have been a titanic help. I look forward to us working with you again after some fundamentals are in place. It's good that these improvements are occurring now because they provide me a chance to learn through practical experience. Also, your Demand Planning Net forums are tremendously helpful because it's like talking to an interactive textbook."

- Group Vice President

Textile Industry client

• Headquartered in Jamaica

• Manufacturer/Distributor of foods and consumer products

• Project Done – S&OP Process

"Mark Chockalingam, President of Demand Planning LLC, provided a quick diagnostic of our Sales and Operations Planning process and delivered a cross- functional one day facilitation workshop to key stakeholders including Marketing, Sales , Supply Chain, Operations and IT. The participants’ evaluation indicated that the workshop was informative and provided very good concepts that can be developed for action.

Using the data analysis and the interviews, the diagnostic highlighted the major issues in our process and provided us with recommendations for improving our forecasting accuracy. The senior management has implemented several of Mark’s recommendations in making the process changes.

We are very pleased with the value received from this investment."

Grace Kennedy Sr. HR Business Partner – Domestic foods

I want to thank you for your assistance in the quick implementation of the Forecasting software. I have worked with small companies and large multinational Fortune 100 companies both using and managing forecasting software. It is remarkable that the implementation of the software took only one month and offered outstanding accuracy in results.

This is by far the easiest forecasting tool I have come across and saves many hours of monthly workload. Demand Planning LLC staff were readily available to assist with questions and set up. In short, both senior management and I are very impressed with the implementation, service, and results. I wish I had found you sooner!"

Jif-Pak Director of Supply Chain at Jif-Pak Manufacturing

" Demand Planning LLC more than met my expectations with the Demand Planning Certification and training session. The facilitators did a great job with a diverse set of attendees from my team, and were able to weave technical skills with business-focused learnings. Even with 15+ years, I was able to identify key takeaways to use to improve our processes, while my team was able to learn valuable lessons. "

ATD Director of Demand Planning & Executive S&OP at American Tire Distributors Inc.

"Mark provided excellent guidance to Wyeth/Pfizer - both Pharma and Consumer - regarding the definition of True Demand and how to measure it as the basis of a forecast. As a result of his clear, simple explanation of True Demand vs. shipments, the debate stopped and the approach was adopted company wide. I'd recommend Mark to help end your debates and help move your business ahead!"

- Sr. Director, Demand Planning, Pfizer Consumer.

Pfizer

"Dear Mark, I just want to thank you for the great job done at McCain Foods. You certainly broke many DP paradigms. Your modeling and demand planning expertise will greatly benefit us in the near future. Please keep in touch".

- Business Process Owner

McCain Foods

"Demand Planning LLC has an amazing ability to morph into employees of the company and tackle challenges head on. As a team they delivered on their commitments and institutionalized a new Statistical forecast process that fit within the business constraints. Demand Planning LLC has an uncanny ability to spot problems before they occur and gave world class training in terms of demand planning and statistical forecasting. A Must Hire if you are struggling with end to end planning processes &

methods."

 - Project Leader

"I like the facts of the system, processes reconfiguration and redesign, supported by the hands-on training. Secondly, benchmarking against best practices in the industry is really helpful to gauge our processes against. I liked the outcome of the training for my business and how it expanded the capabilities of my team; Great job, guys! "

 - Demand Manager

"We are pretty pleased with the Demand Planning Detailed Work Instructions project. The Demand Planning Net team provided some valuable diagnostic findings for our SIOP team to review and improve upon. Their work provided a solid baseline process for us to work from. The Workflow and training documentation are outstanding and they will serve as a ready reference for the demand planning group. We look forward to working with them on future projects"

Honeywell

• Headquartered in California, US

• US division of Swiss confectioner Lindt and Sprungli

• Project Done – Statistical Model Tuning in SAP APO

"Mark & his team from Demand Planning LLC did a phenomenal job when they came onsite to help us with our statistical model tuning in SAP. We are now implementing the stat models in our forecasting process, and on our way to increased forecast accuracy. Additionally, we did have some SAP APO system limitations and Mark still managed to find a work around solution to enable the lifecycle planning process for our company. He is an expert in this field, and very resourceful. Our company will be using him for future logistics projects due to the great success we have had!"

Ghirardelli - Sales Forecast Analyst