1 Total number of individuals directly involved in forecasting and procurement (buyers, planners, managers, salespersons):
2 Total number of distribution centers (DCs) or warehouses:
3 Approximate dollar amount of on hand inventory across all warehouses:
4 Which best describes your supply chain:
5 Which enterprise resource planning (ERP) system are you using today?
6 Do you have highly seasonal items?
7 Do you use kitting or a bill of material (BOM) for any of your products?
8 Do you need to integrate point-of-sale (POS) data into your forecasting?
9 Do you calculate or would you like to calculate a safety stock position based on service level goals for each of your products?
10 Do a large number of your products have sporadic sales?
11 Do you forecast on a monthly or weekly basis?
12 Do you ever transfer product between warehouses?
13 Is your average product replenishment lead times six weeks or more?
14 Do you load or fill containers with any of your vendors?
15 Do your vendors offer various item level or order level price breaks on a regular basis?
16 Do you collaborate with outside sales reps or others to help improve forecasts?
17 Does your organization engage in the management methodology known as Sales and Operations Planning or is that something on the horizon?
18 Do you import a large number of shipping containers of product each year?
19 Do you track the progress of the containers in the supply chain?
20 Would you like to utilize a dynamic form of historical key performance indicator (KPI) reporting?
21 Do you need to plan at the retail store level using a plan-o-gram orientation?
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