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Demand Planner

M3 Demand Planner optimizes the flow of information in the extended supply chain.

M3 Demand Planner (DMP) is a powerful tool for accurately managing and manipulating planning demand. It enables you to decide how you can best use your resources to maximize customer service levels, sales revenue and profitability.

Globalization, e-business and the ever-increasing product variety that customers are demanding is intensifying the need for accurate demand planning. Companies are realizing that effective demand planning can minimize safety stock and work-in-progress in the supply chain, as well as boost customer service levels to leverage a major competitive advantage.

M3 DMP supports a collaborative stepwise workflow using a client-server architecture for the decentralized collection of customer demand information. Dynamic grouping and data aggregation enables you to manipulate demand.

In addition, M3 DMP contains extensive interactive decision support functionality with easy-to-use graphic displays. Favorite views with powerful filtering guide you to your preferred information view, and compare board functionality highlights the differences between alternative plans, while key performance indicators measure how well you are meeting your goals.

M3 DMP works together with M3 Supply Chain Planner and M3 Application Server, where the data are stored. The output from the M3 Demand Planner serves as input to M3 Supply Chain Planning for optimization.

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