--- title: Have You Taken the Steps to Benefits from DDMRP? description: Simply explained, DDMRP is based on firm-flow standards to deliver planning and execution accomplishment in multiple backgrounds. 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[Read More →](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/have-you-taken-the-steps-to-benefits-from-ddmrp) - [supply chain (286)](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/supply-chain) - [technology (138)](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/technology) - [logistics (81)](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/logistics) - [procurement (69)](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/procurement) - [optimisation (65)](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/optimisation) Posted by [Dave Food](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/author/dave-food) on Apr 8, 2019 9:16:47 PM ![Dave Food](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/9fa060d35f0f962fafafe972c24035ae) Find me on: [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/davefood) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davefood) [Twitter](https://www.twitter.com/davefood) Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (**DDMRP**) is a *recognised approach* within an extensive range of *leading industries* across the world and is revolutionising the *Supply Chain Planning*, rapidly becoming the method most used. **DDMRP** is just part of a broader business approach called the *Demand-Driven Adaptive Enterprise* **(DDAE***)*. If you haven’t come across it yet, **make sure you do!** Simply explained**, DDMRP** is based *on* firm-flow standards to deliver planning and execution accomplishment in multiple backgrounds. Some of the benefits are: - It facilitates people with a plan which brings *transparency, easy interpretation, consistency* and *sustainability*. - It’s recognised as a *multi-level inventory optimisation plan* in the Supply Chain (**SC**). - It *boosts the development of relevant information* through the setting and managing of tactically *distributed decoupling point stock buffers,* -upstream and downstream in the Supply Chain (a *stock point* is from where the customer has to be supplied.) - It produces supply events matching to the *sales order* *of the day* and *sales spikes***,** visually. - DDMRP helps plan and manage inventories and items in today’s more complex supply settings, interest paid to ownership, the market engineering, sales, and the supply base. Within weeks of starting pilot projects, the majority of companies that have used **DDMPR** have experienced: inventory brought down, service level/availability going up, whilst lead time for manufacturing decreasing. **Which are the five components of DDMRP?** Getting started with **DDMRP** is somewhat uncomplicated. This approach has five connected components: - 1. Strategic Inventory Positioning will establish where the *decoupling buffers are placed*. - 2. Buffer profiles and levels will control the *total protection* at those decoupling spots. - 3. Dynamic Adjustments outline how that level of protection *expands up or down,* based on operating factors, market changes, and planned or known future events. - 4. Demand Driven Planning is the procedure by which supply orders (purchase, manufacturing and stock transfer orders) are produced. - 5. Visible and *collaborative execution* is the process by which a **DDMRP** system manages open supply orders. **How do top organisations start?** - It doesn’t need *any new tech* or *change*. You can easily do it through a Demand Driven Planner course. - There's *no innovative software*, *no experts*, *no* considerable *approval needed*, and *no long delays* between *testing* something and grasping the results. - It *takes away* your most complex-to-handle **SKU’**s (Stock Keeping Units) of your process, and manage the replenishment applying **DDMRP** procedure, directly deployed in Excel. - In many situations *relating fast-moving items*, the after-effects can be seen in a short time. - Several companies make *available more cash* from inventory *dropping in the first months* thro**ugh DDMRP**, than it costs in software, educating, or consulting. - Of course, as soon as the *pilot* **DDMRP** *successfully develops* across lots of SKUs and different locations, there will be the *need for experts in software, integration to your ERP*, and a *controlled-change plan*. - Inventory is applied skilfully to *leverage your entire SC,* making it more active and flexible. - The critical decision is where the inventory *should be held*. - The decision *when to replenish* an inventory SKU, and *how much to reorder*, is driven by a unique *Net Flow Equation*. - Rearrange triggers and *stock levels* are automatically adapted to follow current procedure patterns and can be *adjusted for known upcoming changes* (e.g. marketing campaigns, different seasons, or maintenance procedures.) Most **DDMRP**-driven operations can cope with *demand variations* by the use of an *advanced multi-echelon* “*Position*, *Protect*, and *Pull”* approach, which make it possible for a company to *decouple forecast error* brought about from supply orders; it *aligns to* actual market requirements, and boosts *reliable* and *faster assessments* and procedures at the planning and performance stage. DDMRP welcomes the fact that there is so much *variability*, *uncertainty*, *complexit*y and *ambiguit*y (VUCA) in the real world that you will always oversee something, the reason why it needs to propose a secure, still agile system that comes with 95% of real-world differences. **Summing up:** DDMRP is rapidly becoming the furthermost line of attack used by SC leaders. The innovations it brings are not always understood at first as a new planning solution. 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