Approaching the Demand Planner

You should look at the demand planner as more of a musical instrument to be “played” rather than a piece of artificial intelligence that can tell you exactly how much stock to order with 100% accuracy

Pakk’s demand planner is a tool we’ve built to help with this task. It’s important to note that it doesn’t work completely autonomously - it’s a set of tools and controls that are designed to work in conjunction with, and enhance, expert knowledge about the business. It takes a lot of the guesswork out of the task, makes it more efficient, makes ordering quicker and less error prone and makes some of that ‘owner instinct’ available to everyone else in the business. To get the most out of the demand planner, you’ll need to learn to use it, rather than just creating orders from it with a single click. We often describe it as like playing a musical instrument, or flying an aeroplane - you’ll need some knowledge and practice before really getting to grips with it.

All demand planners rely on historical data to feed their models, and realities can change quickly, so you should use the demand planner as an interactive tool to do your ordering, combining it with the expert knowledge of your business that only you and your team have.