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English translation: demand-driven

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21:24 Jul 4, 2010

German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Management

German term or phrase: Verbrauchssteuerung

This organisation is in the process of changing over from "Plansteuerung" to "Verbrauchssteuerung" for some of its product areas, with a view to increasing efficiency. I can't find a good English equivalent for either of these terms!

Andy Yeomans KudoZ activity Questions: 4 (none open) Answers: 11 United Kingdom
Local time: 20:58

English translation:demand-driven

Explanation:
Make products according to customer demand rather than according to production capacity. Amazing how many "capitalist" companies still plan according to what they can produce rather than what they can sell.

Demand-led, demand-driven, demand-pull, sales-based planning - there are a dozen ways of saying this.

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Yasdnil1
Dominican Republic
Local time: 15:58

Grading comment

Thanks Yasdnil - I went for "demand-led control" in this context.
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Summary of answers provided

5 +2

demand-driven

Yasdnil1

consumer sensitization

Goldcoaster

monitoring consumer processes/consumer monitoring

David Hollywood

Summary of reference entries provided

Info

Kim Metzger

Discussion entries: 4

Answers

21 mins confidence:

monitoring consumer processes/consumer monitoring

Explanation:
I would suggest ...

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Note added at 26 mins (2010-07-04 21:51:00 GMT)
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or maybe "consumption control"

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Note added at 27 mins (2010-07-04 21:51:52 GMT)
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Consumption control chart. Use this chart to discover patterns, changes and measure quantities of materials, goods and services bought/consumed. ...
www.verdant.net/chart.htm - Cached - Similar

David Hollywood
Local time: 16:58
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 56

29 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

demand-driven

Yasdnil1
Dominican Republic
Local time: 15:58
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 3

Grading comment

Thanks Yasdnil - I went for "demand-led control" in this context.

9 hrs confidence:

consumer sensitization

Explanation:
steering (manipulating) consumer behaviour to a predetermined, preferential pattern.

Goldcoaster
Switzerland
Local time: 21:58
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English,

German

Reference comments

41 mins

Reference: Info

Reference information:
This isn't a translation of Verbrauchssteuerung but the information may help.

Consumption-based planning
When you plan a material according to Consumption-based planning logic, the future demand of the product is always determined by it’s historical demand. In SAP there are two ways to approach this:
1. Forecast-based planning: on the basis of historical demand you estimate future requirements and you procure according to this estimate. This is suitable for materials that are sold or produced with higher volume. Only then a decent statistical forecast makes sense.
2. Re-order point procedure: when your stock falls below a pre-determined stock level the system issues a procurement proposal. This is generally applied to low-volume or bulk materials. Forecasting on low-volume materials is too error-prone. Forecasting low-volume materials will result in unreasonably high safety stocks (I will blog on the relationship between forecasting and safety stock in the future).
The key-word here is: independency. The material’s requirements are determined independent of another material or process. Consumption-based planning is commonly used in a wholesale environment, but also in a production environment for some raw materials, additives and bulk materials.
http://sapdocs.info/sap/materials-management-2/mrp-vs-consum...

http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/print46c/en/data/pdf/MMCB...

Verbrauchsgesteuerte Disposition
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/print46c/de/data/pdf/MMCB...

Kim Metzger
Mexico
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 115

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