Supply Chain Management - Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR)

Authors

Narayana Rao

Introduction

Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR) takes a collaborative approach to supply chain management and information exchange among trading partners.

The driving premise of CPFR is that all supply chain participants develop a synchronized forecast. Every participant in the supply chain involved in a CPFR process — supplier, manufacturer, distributor, retailer — can view and amend forecast data. Therefore, CPFR puts an end to independent guesswork in the forecasting process by various participants. It results into a situation wherein manufacturers and retailers share their plans, with detailed knowledge of each others’ assumptions and constraints.

The steps involed in installing a CPFR systems are:

1. Develop Front End Agreement
2. Create Joint Business Plan
3. Create Sales Forecast
4. Identify Exceptions for Sales Forecast
5. Resolve/Collaborate on Exception Items
6. Create Order Forecast
7. Identify Exceptions for Order Forecast
8. Resolve collaborate on Exception Items
9. Order Generation
10. Delivery Execution

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CPFR Case Studies from VICS

Cover

CPFR Pilot Project Overview

Nabisco & Wegmans Pilot

Wal-Mart & Sara Lee Pilot

Procter & Gamble Pilot

Hewlett-Packard Pilot

CPFR Technical Specifications

Conclusion

Appendix A. CPFR Capability Assessment

Appendix B. Metric Matrix

Appendix C. Data Model

Appendix E. Message Mapping

Appendix F. CPFR Technology Questionnaire

Source: http://www.vics.org/guidelines/cpfr_roadmap_case_studies/

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Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR): A Tutorial

Instructor:

Cecil Bozarth , PhD
North Carolina State University
Author of "Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management," 2nd edition, Pearson, Prentice-Hall

Links to web pages

Introduction

CPFR Process Model

1. Strategy and Planning

2. Demand and Supply Management

3. Execution

4. Analysis -
a. Exception Management

b. Performance Assessment

and Collaboration

Organizational Implications

Summary

References