# Demand Planning

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Stop arguing about the forecast — version it, test it, and let accuracy decide.

Forecast meetings run on the same theater as project status: the loudest model wins until reality audits everyone. Demand Planning replaces theater with versioning — statistical baselines, human overrides tracked against them, accuracy reviews both sides can see. The forecast that earns trust is the one that survived comparison.

## Planning cycle

Each stage below moves signals toward executable supply — sensed, planned, and committed with the evidence to defend every number.

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### Sense

Orders, forecasts, and service demand fuse into signals with overrides versioned against statistical baselines. Bias stays visible instead of hiding.

### Solve

Deterministic solvers generate replenishment, transport, and labor plans with execution profiles. Infeasible stretches return certificates, not partials.

### Commit

Accepted plans convert to purchase, transfer, and roster actions with owner gates. Commitments carry their input snapshots for later review.

## Demand guarantees

- **Signal lineage:** Orders, forecasts, and service demand cited as plan inputs with versions
- **Replayable runs:** Identical inputs reproduce identical plans with execution profiles
- **Honest infeasibility:** Binding constraints named with sensitivity instead of silent partials
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## Demand by industry

Demand sensing bends per industry — same signal lineage, different volatility stakes.

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### Retail

SKU-level forecasts with seasonality, promotions, and store-cluster patterns. Replenishment reacts to sell-through daily instead of weekly buyers' hunches.

### Manufacturing

Program and order-driven demand with BOM explosion into component plans. Engineering changes replan affected branches with the revision cited.

### Food and Agriculture

Seasonal and weather-influenced demand with harvest windows constraining supply. Perishability horizons shape lot sizing before waste happens.

## Demand Planning questions

### Section 1

What happens when a plan is infeasible?

The solver returns a certificate naming the binding constraints with sensitivity analysis, instead of a silent partial plan. Planners adjust constraints and rerun.

### Section 2

How do forecast overrides work?

Overrides version against the statistical baseline with author, reason, and effective dates — both lines stay visible so accuracy reviews stay honest.

### Section 3

Sales always overrides the forecast. How do we stop the gaming?

You don't stop it — you score it. Override accuracy reviews show whose judgment beats the model and whose doesn't, and the conversation shifts from politics to evidence.

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## content section

value: Planning truth feeds operations: demand plans drive replenishment, labor plans staff shifts, and transport plans book capacity — all from the same signals, all replayable from the same sealed inputs.

## Section 6

Demand sensing from orders, forecasts, and service signals

## Section 7

Replenishment and transportation plan generation

## Section 8

Deterministic solver runs with execution profiles

## Section 9

Infeasibility certificates with sensitivity analysis

## Relationships

### products

- XRP — https://babadook.tech/products/xrp

### modules

- Planning and Intelligence — https://babadook.tech/modules/planning-intelligence