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Demand planning refers to the process of forecasting consumer demand for a company's products or services well into the future, sometimes as far into the future as one year.
The definitions seem to try to get into a lot of detail about the topic in terms of specifying how demand planning is accomplished, whereas actually the term is highly general.Wikipedia, does not have a definition of demand planning, at the time of this writing.