Add details to demands

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  • Updated March 12, 2026
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    Summary of Add Details to Demands

    The Demand Management application enhances the process of managing demands by facilitating stakeholder identification, automating information collection, and allowing demand managers to create and assign tasks efficiently. This streamlining supports demand analysis, approval, and project creation while enabling better resource allocation and strategic alignment.

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    Key Features

    • Stakeholder Management: Automatically populates stakeholders from selected portfolios and allows for adding existing or new stakeholders to demands.
    • Demand Tasks: Demand managers can create tasks, assign them to resources, and track time spent using time cards to calculate actual effort and costs.
    • Requirements Creation: Demand managers can create multiple requirements, assign owners, and associate tasks when needed for complex demands.
    • Resource Assignments: Create resource assignments from the Resource Assignments related list, available with the Resource Management Workspace application.
    • Strategy and Goal Allocations: Allocate percentages of costs and benefits toward strategic goals, with the ability to recalculate values as needed when allocations change.
    • Funding Allocation: Allocate funds for significant, multi-year demands to support related projects, requiring the Investment Funding plugin and proper user roles.

    Key Outcomes

    By utilizing the Demand Management application, ServiceNow customers can expect improved efficiency in managing demands, better alignment of resources and strategies, and enhanced visibility into costs and benefits associated with demands. This ultimately leads to more informed decision-making and successful project execution.

    The demand manager typically works with a business relationship manager to identify stakeholders and elicit requirements, risks, and other important information.

    The Demand Management application streamlines the stakeholder identification process. Auto-populating the list of stakeholders from the portfolio the user selects when filling out the demand form in the service catalog or in the Demand Management application. The Demand Management application also enables you to use assessments to automate some of the information gathering process.

    Add demand tasks

    Demand managers analyze business demands, approve demands, and create projects and enhancements. Many times activities such as effort, cost, risk, and benefit estimates are required to analyze a demand and create a business case for approval of the demand. A demand manager can create demand tasks and assign these tasks to individual resources or a group to perform these activities.

    The resources assigned to the demand tasks then post time spent while working on a demand or demand task using a time card. The time card data is used to calculate actual effort and cost incurred on the demand task as well as demand.

    To create demand tasks, scroll to the Demand Tasks related list on the Demand form and select New to create a record.

    Add stakeholders

    When a demand is submitted, the demand stakeholder list is populated automatically from the associated portfolio. You can also add stakeholders. To add a person to the stakeholder list, scroll to the Stakeholders related list on the Demand form, select Create new to create a record, and fill in the form. To add existing stakeholders to the demand, select Add existing.

    When adding a stakeholder from the demand form, the Portfolio field displays the portfolio that was selected on the Demand form.

    A demand can have multiple stakeholders and a stakeholder can be associated with multiple demands.

    The newly added stakeholder is automatically associated with the current demand and any other demands that use the same portfolio.

    Add requirements

    Demand managers can create as many requirements as needed, but requirements aren’t required. Typically, the stakeholders associated with a demand request have insights into what the requirements are for a demand request to be completed.

    Demand managers use the Requirement form to describe the requirement and assign an owner who is responsible for making sure that the requirement is met. When a requirement is complex, demand managers can associate planned tasks, such as project tasks, with the requirement. The demand manager assigns and tracks the tasks until they’re complete.

    To add a requirement to a demand, follow these steps:
    1. Open a Demand form and select New from the Requirements related list.
    2. On the Requirement form, fill in the fields. For a description of the field names, see Requirement form.

    Add resource assignments

    Resource assignments are another source of information that decision makers can use when evaluating demands. You can create resource assignments for a demand from the Resource assignments related list, which appears only if the Resource Management Workspace application is activated.

    To add a resource assignment to the demand, scroll to the Resource assignments related list on the Demand form and select New to create a record.

    Add and recalculate strategy and goal allocations

    The Strategy Allocations related list displays the percentage of the demand's total cost and benefits allocated toward the achievement of the associated strategies. The Goal Allocations related list displays the percentage of demand's total cost and benefits allocated toward achievement of goals associated with the demand. For more information, see Allocate strategy and goal percentage for a demand.

    Recalculate and update cost field values in the Strategy and Goal Allocation tabs. Use the Recalculate Strategy and Goal Allocation related link to update the demand's total cost and benefits when strategy and goal allocations for the demand are changed. For more information, see Strategic Spend Tracking for PPM.

    Note:
    These related lists and related links appears only when Strategic Spend Tracking for PPM is installed. This application is available on ServiceNow Store. You must switch to the Strategic Alignment view to see them. If these lists and links aren’t available on the form view that you’re using, ask your administrator to configure the demand form to add them. For more information, see Install Strategic Spend Tracking for PPM.

    Add goal/target relationships

    The Goal/Target Relationships related list displays the relationship between a goal and a planning item, strategic item, or any other item such as a demand.

    Allocate funds

    If your demand represents a significant, multi-year investment and you must distribute funding across related work, you can allocate funds from your demand. By allocating funds, you can directly support one or more projects, epics, or programs linked to the approved demand.

    This link appears only if you have the Investment Funding plugin activated, an existing corresponding investment record for this demand, and the investment_user role.