40-HOUR COURSE · FIVE 8-HOUR LESSONS

Supply Chain Forecasting Course

Build a complete planning foundation in five eight-hour lessons: demand planning, supply planning, constraint planning, manufacturing planning and production scheduling. Each lesson includes original diagrams, worked examples, practice tasks and ten quick questions.

A 40-hour learning path · 5 lessons × 8 hours

This course gives each planning activity a full eight-hour learning path. The same fictional reusable-bottle business connects the lessons, so each decision carries forward. Every lesson is divided into eight 60-minute blocks. Each block includes a practical task; every note ends with ten quick questions and answer explanations. All data is fictional. Real planning depends on data quality, calendars, product rules, policies and business priorities.

Course path

LESSON 01 · 8 HOURS · 10 QUESTIONSDemand PlanningEstimate what customers are likely to ask for, then make the assumptions visible.LESSON 02 · 8 HOURS · 10 QUESTIONSSupply PlanningTurn expected demand into a time-phased plan for stock, purchase orders and production.LESSON 03 · 8 HOURS · 10 QUESTIONSConstraint PlanningCheck whether supplier, labor, equipment, storage and transport limits can support the time-phased plan.LESSON 04 · 8 HOURS · 10 QUESTIONSManufacturing PlanningTurn a feasible quantity into a build plan for materials, labor, equipment, yield and production time.LESSON 05 · 8 HOURS · 10 QUESTIONSProduction SchedulingPlace released work into a finite sequence and time slot, taking due dates, setup, labor and material readiness into account.

How to use the course

Work through the lessons in order. Plan roughly eight hours for each topic, including practice and review; take breaks and spread the work across days. Use the interactive preview for a quick orientation, then use the deep notes for the full explanations. All example quantities are illustrative. No company data is used.

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