In brief: The Knowledge Center brings together basic guides on planning processes and articles with numerical examples that focus on specific questions. You can reach the content by planning process or by industry. All content is prepared by Dr. İlker Güçlü, based on training and consulting experience.
If you are looking for a general introduction to planning and supply chain concepts, start with these three guides.
The planning hierarchy, horizons, and the general framework of corporate planning processes...
Structuring the supply chain and long-, medium-, and short-term planning...
The fundamentals of optimization approaches in planning problems...
In each process, a basic guide explaining the concepts comes first, followed by articles with numerical examples that focus on a specific question.
For measuring forecast accuracy, catching error early, and modeling difficult situations such as promotions and intermittent demand.
The factors affecting demand, forecasting methods, and corporate use cases...
Measuring error, percentage error metrics, and interpreting bias...
Baseline demand, campaign types, and calculating promotion impact...
Stationarity, trend, and seasonality; time series methods and points to watch...
Content explaining how sales, operations, and finance decide on a single plan in the monthly cycle.
The contribution of S&OP to competitiveness and the process flow...
The monthly calendar, decisions by meeting, gap-closing options, and scenarios...
Comparing level, chase, and hybrid strategies with a quarterly example...
Promotions, new products, shelf life, channel stocks, and the S&OP-S&OE link...
The planning layers of production, from the master production schedule to material requirements planning and shop floor scheduling.
The objectives of production planning, its place in the supply chain, and new approaches...
Sequencing work orders onto resources and scheduling performance...
Production and materials planning activities, MRP, and JIT...
Time fences, order promising with ATP, MRP nervousness, and the coexistence of MRP and kanban...
Sequence-dependent changeover times, the product wheel, and the balance of campaign length...
Pull logic, kanban count calculation, production leveling, and electronic kanban...
Supplier selection, total cost of ownership, and purchasing decisions for long-lead-time items.
TCO components, a two-supplier example, and green procurement criteria...
Repairable parts, criticality, repair pipeline stock, and obsolescence risk...
For keeping the right stock in the right place with safety stock, service level targets, and replenishment parameters.
Inventory segmentation, analysis methods, and optimization...
Forecast error, lead time variability, service measures, and segment-based targets...
Target level, display stock, case rounding, and the warehouse-store balance...
Content covering planning decisions in storage, transportation, and the distribution network.
Planning storage, transportation, and the distribution network...
End-to-end structuring of the supply chain and linking planning processes together.
The effect of Scope 3, CBAM, CSRD, and the Türkiye ETS on planning decisions...
The effect of carbon regulations, Scope 3 emissions, and green procurement on planning decisions.
Alongside industry-specific articles, articles that apply directly to planning problems in that industry are also listed; at the end of industry articles are the institutions we work with and participant comments.
Promotions, short shelf life, and multi-channel distribution stand out; we have worked with 43 organizations in this sector through training and/or consulting.
Campaign production, product changeover times, and common raw materials stand out; we have worked with 53 organizations in this sector through training and/or consulting.
Seasonal stocking and the balance of capacity and demand stand out; we have worked with 51 organizations in this sector through training and/or consulting.
Customer call-offs, JIT shipments, and multi-level bills of materials stand out; we have worked with 48 organizations in this sector through training and/or consulting.
Long lead times, spare parts, and intermittent demand stand out; we have worked with 13 organizations in this sector through training and/or consulting.
Store-level replenishment and multi-location inventory stand out; we have worked with 7 organizations in this sector through training and/or consulting.
Wide product variety, make-to-order production, and spare parts stand out; we have worked with 88 organizations in this sector through training and/or consulting.
Seasonal collections, short product life, and many variants stand out; we have worked with 23 organizations in this sector through training and/or consulting.
Project-based demand, seasonality, and heavy logistics stand out; we have worked with 20 organizations in this sector through training and/or consulting.
Shelf life, high service levels, and regulatory requirements stand out; we have worked with 18 organizations in this sector through training and/or consulting.
Capacity planning, service parts, and demand fluctuation stand out; we have worked with 8 organizations in this sector through training and/or consulting.
The table below summarizes in which industries each planning topic stands out and why; topic and industry names lead to the same sections as the links at the top of the page.
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