S&OP Sales: Forecasting and Demand Planning
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S&OP Sales is drives the demand-side of the S&OP process. Demand collection, sales pipeline integration, collaborative sales forecasting, product lifecycle planning, new product introduction, statistical analysis, demand management, and demand planning are key components of S&OP Sales.
The Role of Technology in Demand Management (Wight)
Seven Principles of Sales Forecasting Systems (Mentzer, Bienstock)
Benchmarking Sales Forecasting Performance Measures (Kahn)
Seven Keys to Better Forecasting (Moon, Mentzer, Smith, Garver)
Using the Theory of Constraints to Improve the Forecasting Process (Margolis)
Benchmarking Sales Forecasting Management (Mentzer, Bienstock, Kahn)
New Product Introductions (Kahn, Margolis)
Top Down vs Bottom Up (Kenneth B Kahn; Journal of Business Forecasting)
Forecasting with Growth Curves (Batchelor)
Further Extensions of Adaptive Extended Exponential Smoothing and Comparison with the M-Competition
(Mentzer, Gomes)
Forecasting with Adaptive Extended Exponential Smoothing
(Mentzer)
A Model of the Determinants of Achieved Forecast Accuracy (Mentzer, Cox)
Familiarity, Application, and Performance of Sales Forecasting Techniques
(Mentzer, Cox)
Product Sales Forecasting: A Simulated Model for Short-Range Forecasting and Operational Decision Making
(Mentzer, Bowersox, Closs, Sims)
What Is World Class Forecasting: A Perspective on 20 Years of Research
Moon, Mark A. (2004 APICS International Conference)
Sales Forecasting Management Tom Mentzer, and Carol C. Bienstock,
(Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, California, 1998)
The Impact of Forecasting Improvement on Return on Shareholder Value
Tom Mentzer; Management, 29 (January, 2000), 19-26; Mentzer, John T.;
Journal of Business Forecasting, (Fall, 1999), 8-12
Improving Salesforce Forecasting Moon, Mark A. and John T. Mentzer;
Journal of Business Forecasting, 18 (No. 2, 1999), 7-12
Benchmarking Sales Forecasting Management
Tom Mentzer, Carol C. Bienstock, and Kenneth B. Kahn; Business Horizons, 42 (May-June, 1999), 48-56
The Seven Principles of Sales Forecasting Systems
Tom Mentzer and Carol C. Bienstock; Supply Chain Management Review, (Fall 1998), 76-83
EDI and EDI Alliances: Implications for the Sales Forecasting Function
Kenneth B. Kahn and Tom Mentzer; Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, 4 (No. 2, 1996), 72-78
Forecasting Technique Familiarity, Satisfaction, Usage, and Application Mentzer, John T. and Kenneth B. Kahn; Journal of Forecasting, 14 (No. 5, 1995), 465-476
The Impact of Team-Based Forecasting Kennet B. Kahn and Tom Mentzer; Journal of Business Forecasting, 13 (Spring, 1994), 18-21
How to Measure the Impact of a Forecast Error on an Enterprise?
Kahn, Kenneth B.; Journal of Business Forecasting, (Spring 2003), 21-25
Conducting a Sales Forecasting Audit
Moon, Mentzer, Smith; International Journal of Forecasting, 19 (2003), 5-25
Sales Forecasting Audit Protocol (Mentzer, J.T.)
Commentaries and authors' response on Conducting A Sales Forecasting Audit
Moon, Mentzer, Smith; International Journal of Forecasting, 9 (2003), 27-42
An Exploratory Investigation of New Product Forecasting
Kahn, Kenneth B.; Journal of Product Innovation Management, 19 (2002), 133-143
How to Use a "Golf" Game to Enhance the Forecasting Process
Kahn, Kenneth B.; Journal of Business Forecasting, (Winter 2001/2002), 21-25
Customer Demand Planning
Moon, Mentzer, Thomas; Industrial Marketing Management, 29 (2000), 19-26
Bringing Order Out of Chaos
Golicic, Davis, McCarthy, Mentzer; Journal of Business Forecasting, (Spring 2001), 11-17
Sales Forecasting as a Knowledge Management Process
Kahn, Adams; Journal of Business Forecasting, (Winter 2000/2001), 19-22
Forecasting Demand in the Longaberger Company Mentzer, Kent; (Summer 1999)
The Need for a Forecasting Champion
Mentzer, Moon, Kent, Smith; Journal of Business Forecasting, 16 (No 3, 1997), 3-8
The State of Sales Forecasting Systems in Corporate America
Mentzer, Kahn; Journal of Business Forecasting, 16 (Spring 1997), 6-13
Forecasting in Consumer and Industrial Markets
Mentzer, Kahn; Journal of Business Forecasting, 14 (Summer 1995), 21-28
Integrating Logistics Forecasting Techniques, Systems, and Administration:
The Multiple Forecasting System
Mentzer, Schroeter; Journal of Business Logistics, 15 (No 2, 1994), 205-226
Multiple Forecasting System at Brake Parts, Inc.
Mentzer, Schroeter; Journal of Business Forecasting, 13 (Spring 1994), 5-9
Evaluating a Decision Support Forecasting System
Mentzer, Gomes; Industrial Marketing Management, 18 (1989), 313-323
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