New Learnings from Day 1 of IBF's Business Forecasting & Planning Academy: An Attendee's Perspective
Last week I had the opportunity to attend IBF’s Business Forecasting & Planning Academy held in Las Vegas. The two days were filled with fourteen educationa... Read More...
How Many SKUs Can A Forecaster Manage? —IBF Research Report 14
It is difficult to arrive at one fixed number of SKUs that a forecaster can manage, because situations vary from industry to industry and company to c... Read More...
Passion & Spice Missing From Your S&OP Relationship?
Patrick Bower During a recent IBF conference in Chicago I was asked numerous times about how to make Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) less boring. ... Read More...
Organizational Agility: S&OP and Financial Integration Creates Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
Mike Pape Does your S&OP process require you to integrate plants across a global organization? Do you have multiple forecasts for different functions and... Read More...
Dominate Your Competition with Forecasting, Demand Planning, and S&OP
Jacob Hall How effective is your company at seeing the future? I’ll answer that for you, “I wish we were better at it.” The better you plan, the smoother all ... Read More...
Forecasting, How Well Can You Do It?
Eugene Lee I am a big fan of a ubiquitous fast food restaurant called Chipotle. Black beans, brown rice, grilled chicken, both habanero salsa and pico de gall... Read More...
Who are You to Me and Who Am I to You in the Extended Supply Chain
Matthew Prange It was 80 degrees and the sun was directly overhead as I walked into the corporate office for my first meeting at my new employer. My heart wa... Read More...
Aligning and Managing Demand for New Products using S&OP
Many organizations have processes that define how new products will be conceived, developed, designed, and brought to market. Many organizations also... Read More...
Forecast Value Added (FVA) – Interview Series 4 – Moen Incorporated
Erin Marchant This month’s interview is with Erin Marchant, Senior Analyst in Demand Management at Moen, Incorporated. Erin has over ten years of varied expe... Read More...
Using Macroeconomic Data and Predictive Business Analytics to Forecast Sales at Ferro
Gleb Drobkov David Henison In this blog post, we will outline: 1. The reasoning for creating a predictive sales model (PSM) at a global diversified chemica... Read More...