Comments from the Recent IBF APICS Best of the Best S&OP Conference
Just finished the “IBF’s Best of the Best S&OP” conference held from Jun 13 – 14, 2013 at the Rosemont Hilton in Chicago in partnership with APICS. This con... Read More...
Executing the New Product Launch: Why Your Forecast is Critical Throughout the Process
I recently attended an IBF conference session by Michael Birch, Vice President Operations at Ping Golf on why forecasting is so critical to the product launch. ... Read More...
Benefits of Forecast Sharing With Your Suppliers
Jack Harwell A lot of attention is paid to the value of demand planning and forecast accuracy as it relates to benefits to the enterprise. These benefits incl... Read More...
Putting Marketing Back in S&OP: Journal of Business Forecasting
Volume 32 Issue 1
Spring 2013
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"Perfect Candidate Profile" in Business Forecasting & Planning"
Joy White Panel discussions are most interesting when the panelists represent similar disciplines across a variety of industries. At the recent IBF Conference... Read More...
The S&OP “Police” at Honeywell India
Rishi Trivedi Last week, we had a great first meeting of the Bangalore chapter of IBF, with learning sessions on S&OP process implementation and supply ch... Read More...
Collaboration and Forecasting for Seasonal New Product Launches
Joy White At the IBF conference last month in Scottsdale Arizona, there were many interesting presentations and discussions regarding new product forecasting.... Read More...
New Product Forecasting: Special Issue of the Journal of Business Forecasting (JBF)
Special JBF Issue on New Product Forecasting New product forecasting is the most challenging activity in demand planning. It is also the most rewarding. It is... Read More...
Creating a Worldwide S&OP Model at Elanco
Tracy Cherba S&OP is such a basic concept, yet so difficult to implement effectively across the globe. It’s hard enough trying to get one S&OP proces... Read More...
Exploring New Models for S&OP and Driving Sustainability in the Supply Chain
Chintan Shah of BIC Inc.’s supply chain operations recently led an IBF webinar for Asia on December 24, 2012 in which he outlined new models for driving sust... Read More...