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New Learnings from Day 1 of IBF's Business Forecasting & Planning Academy: An Attendee's Perspective

Jeff MeterskyAugust 25, 2015

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 educational sessions, three roundtable discussions, and multiple opportunities for connecting with p... Read More...

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How Many SKUs Can A Forecaster Manage? —IBF Research Report 14

adminAugust 3, 2015

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 company. There are several factors at play. It depends on how easy or difficult it is to fo... Read More...

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Passion & Spice Missing From Your S&OP Relationship?

Patrick BowerJune 25, 2015

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. It is not the first time. This is a very common question. I suspect this is becomi... Read More...

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Organizational Agility: S&OP and Financial Integration Creates Integrated Business Planning (IBP)

Michael PapeJune 16, 2015

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 possibly different regions? Increasingly, companies are challenged to lead the S&OP ... Read More...

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Dominate Your Competition with Forecasting, Demand Planning, and S&OP

Jacob HallJune 11, 2015

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 business functions will run. However, even the best forecasting processes still yield erro... Read More...

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Forecasting, How Well Can You Do It?

Eugene LeeJune 8, 2015

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 gallo, cheese on a whim, but no lettuce, and definitely no sour cream. Chances are that your f... Read More...

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Who are You to Me and Who Am I to You in the Extended Supply Chain

Matthew PrangeMay 11, 2015

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 was beating through my chest, as it often does in new situations, but I was confident. It w... Read More...

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Aligning and Managing Demand for New Products using S&OP

Dave FloryMay 4, 2015

Many organizations have processes that define how new products will be conceived, developed, designed, and brought to market. Many organizations also have processes that define how they will integrate sales and operational plans to achieve... Read More...

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Forecast Value Added (FVA) – Interview Series 4 – Moen Incorporated

Michael GillilandApril 29, 2015

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 experience in Supply Chain, from strategic sourcing to material planning, production schedulin... Read More...

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Using Macroeconomic Data and Predictive Business Analytics to Forecast Sales at Ferro

Gleb DrobkovMarch 27, 2015

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 chemical company such as Ferro 2. Our approach to selecting the right data and building out a re... Read More...

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