1. is a key process in supply chain management that involves the collection, interpretation and forwarding of demands. A manufacturer uses this process to communicate its current and future material requirements to upstream suppliers in the form of demand forecasts. – 2. is a model developed by Booz, Allen and Hamilton in which all company services are offered at standard market prices on the “internal market”. “The individual business units then decide in what quantities they want to purchase these. In addition, internal demand can be controlled in a targeted manner by simplifying management and financial reporting and thus reducing the number of reports to be produced, for example.”

Source: logipedia / Fraunhofer IML