DAMON
Demand Analysis, Modelling & Outlook Navigator
- Position
- Demand Planning
- Value chain
- Plan to Fulfil
- Reports to
- Chief Supply Chain Officer
- Measured on
- Forecast accuracy at the chosen decision level
Operate arc · Plan to Fulfil
Demand Analysis, Modelling & Outlook Navigator
To keep the forecast honest and explained, so the number the business plans against is one people are willing to defend.
DAMON
Demand Analysis, Modelling & Outlook Navigator
The question DAMON is hired to answer. The chart shows who holds the position and where the decision goes when it is not DAMON's to make.
Work chart
With DAMON in the roleHere is the number, here is what moved it, here is who changed it and why, and here is whether that change made it better.
DAMON refreshes the baseline, tests signal quality, flags deviations, assembles the pack, logs assumptions. The planning number, with the statistical view and the overlays shown separately.
Every digital coworker is hired against one primary measure, agreed and baselined before build. The others are read alongside it so the primary cannot be moved at their expense.
Primary measure
Forecast accuracy at the chosen decision level
The consensus meeting spends its time on judgement, rather than on reconciling spreadsheets
Every override attributed, so a miss can be diagnosed rather than debated
Data defects separated from demand signals, which is the difference between fixing a feed and changing a plan
Planner judgement becomes reusable knowledge, because the effect of each override is tracked
Bias made visible by segment, before it compounds into safety stock and expedite cost
DAMON refreshes the baseline, compares actuals to forecast, flags signal and data anomalies separately, recommends an evidence-backed adjustment, requests commercial input, assembles the consensus pack, records assumptions and overrides against their author, publishes the agreed plan, monitors accuracy, bias and override value by segment.
Reads from ERP and Supply chain
Refreshes the baseline
Compares actuals to forecast
Flags signal and data anomalies separately
Recommends an evidence-backed adjustment
Requests commercial input
Assembles the consensus pack
Records assumptions and overrides against their author
Publishes the agreed plan
Monitors accuracy, bias and override value by segment
Your team decides
Each role understands the work either side of it. See how Plan to Fulfil runs end to end.
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Bring one workflow and the person accountable for it. In the first session we map the process, establish the baseline logic and tell you whether there is a number worth signing. If there is not, we will say so.