What is Blue Yonder Consensus Demand Planning for Aftermarket and Industrial Distributors?

This flavor of consensus planning handles intermittent, service-critical demand. It blends statistical baselines with service-level targets, seasonality, supersessions, and part substitution, bringing sales, ops, and finance together to agree on one number. Cluster pooling stabilizes sparse signals; policy levers set safety stock and reorder rules by criticality. The process reduces stockouts for long-tail parts, trims dead stock, and improves fill-rates without inflating working capital.