{"id":3018,"date":"2015-08-03T11:54:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T15:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/?p=3018"},"modified":"2015-08-03T11:54:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T15:54:11","slug":"how-many-skus-can-a-forecaster-manage-ibf-research-report-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/2015\/08\/03\/how-many-skus-can-a-forecaster-manage-ibf-research-report-14\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many SKUs Can A Forecaster Manage? \u2014IBF Research Report 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1ImwBqZ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3020\" src=\"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Cover_IBF_RSCH_Report_14_v2-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"Cover_IBF_RSCH_Report_14_v2\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to arrive at one fixed number of SKUs that a forecaster can manage,\u00a0because situations vary from industry to industry and company to company.\u00a0There are several factors at play. It depends on how easy or difficult it is to\u00a0forecast, what the lead time is, the cost of forecast error, whether forecasts are\u00a0prepared on an aggregate or granular level, type of data used, whether ABC<br \/>\nclassification is used to allocate forecasting time, whether customers\u2019 input are\u00a0used in reconciling forecasts, and\/or the sophistication of technology used to\u00a0generate forecasts.<\/p>\n<p>This <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1ImwBqZ\">Institute of \u00a0Business Forecasting &amp; Planning &#8211; IBF Research Report<\/a> <\/strong>provides guidance on how many demand planners we really need, as well as, how many SKU&#8217;s they should manage respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Table of Contents includes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Introduction<br \/>\n2. How Easy or Difficult to Forecast<br \/>\n3. Cost of Forecast Error<br \/>\n4. Level of Aggregation Required<br \/>\n5. \u00a0Type of Data Used<br \/>\n6. Segmentation \/ ABA Classification<br \/>\n7. State of Technology<br \/>\n8. Survey Results<br \/>\n9. Conclusion<br \/>\n10. Table 1 | Number of SKUs Per Forecaster By Size of Company<br \/>\n11. Table 2 | Number of SKUs Per Forecaster By Total Number of SKUs at the Company<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1ImwBqZ\">Preview this IBF Research Report 14, HERE.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It is difficult to arrive at one fixed number of SKUs that a forecaster can manage,\u00a0because situations vary from industry to industry and company to company.\u00a0There are several factors at play. It depends on how easy or difficult it is to\u00a0forecast, what the lead time is, the cost of forecast error, whether forecasts are\u00a0prepared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[277,82,271,60,255,61,263,62,275,41,281,64,65,66,162,34,67,39,68,260,69,70,273,35,42,43,44,279,36,76,248,48,81,251,236,264,284,37,252,73,74,270,258,38,280],"class_list":{"0":"post-3018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-forecasting-and-planning","7":"tag-analytics","8":"tag-apics","9":"tag-apo","10":"tag-best-practices","11":"tag-big-data","12":"tag-business-forecasting","13":"tag-certification","14":"tag-collaborative-forecasting","15":"tag-cpf","16":"tag-data-cleansing","17":"tag-data-mining","18":"tag-demand-forecast","19":"tag-demand-forecasting","20":"tag-demand-management","21":"tag-demand-planner","22":"tag-demand-planning","23":"tag-demand-planning-and-forecasting-conference","24":"tag-economic-forecasting","25":"tag-executive-sop","26":"tag-finance","27":"tag-forecast-accuracy","28":"tag-forecast-error","29":"tag-forecast-value-added","30":"tag-forecasting","31":"tag-forecasting-metrics","32":"tag-forecasting-models","33":"tag-forecasting-system","34":"tag-fundamentals","35":"tag-ibf","36":"tag-ibp","37":"tag-innovation","38":"tag-institute-of-business-forecasting-and-planning","39":"tag-inventory-management","40":"tag-marketing","41":"tag-metrics","42":"tag-new-products","43":"tag-predictive-analytics","44":"tag-sop","45":"tag-sales","46":"tag-sales-operations-planning","47":"tag-sales-forecasting","48":"tag-sap","49":"tag-siop","50":"tag-supply-chain","51":"tag-training"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}