As a Logistics leader or Distribution leader, who do you typically get your 6 week outbound rolling forecast from? S&OP? Demand planning? Sales? or other?

Typical 6-wk outbound rolling forecast comes from the S&OP alignment. S&OP accounts for demand planning and production/supply commits.

The six-week rolling forecast is initially developed by the Data Analytics team based on Store/SKU forecasts, adjusted for seasonality. This is aggregated at the corporate level for Finance to make any adjustments to the estimates to meet the financial plan, typically referred to as a stretch forecast. In an S&OP meeting, these numbers are discussed by all the stakeholders, where marketing may have a top-level target, and sales may bring in an account-level target. These numbers are presented to the P&L owner (GM or above) for deciding what the actual targets should be. Then, the number is sent to the DCs (based on the supply chain network design), and inbound-outbound shipping targets are finalized. If manufacturing is in-house, the numbers are also sent to them.