Assuming that you are a newly hired supply chain manager in a manufacturing company. In your planning department there is a demand planner (forecaster) and a production/inventory planner. Briefly answer the following questions.

1. What does your demand planner does and what information does he need to do the forecast (both quantitatively and qualitatively)?

2. Which departments does your demand planner work with?

3. What does your production/inventory planner do?

4. What information does your production/inventory planner need?

5. How your demand planner and production/inventory planner are connected?

6. How do you evaluate their performance (recommend any metrics for each of them)?