Demand Management Plan.
Introduction
This portfolio work project, a demand management plan, will help you demonstrate your competency in forecasting, inventory management, and scheduling.
- The company fits the assignment requirements and you have access to the information needed to complete the assignment.
- The business information is disclosed in the assignment for your instructor’s reference.
- You can distribute the business data without disclosing confidential information.
Contact your instructor with questions.
Your boss, a director, has tasked you with a demand management project. She is relying on you to prepare an analysis and recommendations for demand management that can be presented to the executive team of the company. You completed a special project for her a few months ago that went very well, and you are pleased to have received this new assignment.
Requirements
Include the following in your demand management plan:
- Assess the impact of advertising on product demand.
- Analyze forecasting techniques for the selected product.
- Prepare an inventory management analysis for the selected product.
- Analyze workforce scheduling.
Requirements:
The demand management plan is to be a minimum of 5 pages, not including the title, reference, and appendix pages.
- Use a demand management plan template of your choice.
Related company standards:
- The demand management plan is a professional document and should therefore follow the corresponding MBA Academic and Professional Document Guidelines (available in the MBA Program Resources), including single-spaced paragraphs.
- In addition to the title and reference pages, include the following in the appendix:
- Linear regression model for product forecasting.
- Word table or Excel spreadsheet for staffing scenarios.
- Use 2–3 scholarly or academic sources, where applicable, one of which must come from the Wall Street Journal, Forbes,or MIT Sloan Management Review.
- Use APA formatting for citations and references.
