From Shelf Stacker to Demand Planning Leader: My Unusual Career in S&OP
A common feeling amongst those leaving university is the sense of “what next?” And when you graduate with a degree as vague as mine (BA in Arts & Humanities... Read More...
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Finance Must Work Together with Demand Planning: My Case for A Centralized Forecasting Process
Stop me if you have heard this before. We need more accurate forecasts, and we need them faster. Things are becoming more complex and we need to better understa... Read More...
S&OP Unplugged 1: Do We Turn The Demand Planning Function Into A Dual Role?
The S&OP Unplugged video taken from IBF's Best Practices Conference is now available for free download – available in full for a short time only. This speci... Read More...
My Powerful Journey in Demand Planning – Hooked on Analytics
My career in forecasting has been challenging, at times frustrating, and above all immensely rewarding. This is my story of how I learnt to predict consumer tre... Read More...
S&OP: Hire for Strategy, Not for Need
“You’ve got the req. — go get to hiring.” Hearing these words from a superior can be enlivening… or startling… or both. In the still-evolving world of Sales &... Read More...
Is Communication More Important than Accuracy in Demand Planning?
Demand Planning performance is driven by metrics. MAPE and bias provide a compass to evaluate performance, and make necessary changes to the forecast. It is for... Read More...