Demand Planning Seminar – Sep 19 & 20 Boston, MA

Demand Planning Seminar

During the Demand Planning and Sales Forecasting Seminar in Boston, we will be discussing the demand planning challenges across a variety of industries – Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Industrial, Food and Beverage and Consumer Goods companies. We will present demand planning process solutions from our knowledge base that we have developed over the years.

The two-day workshop will focus on demand modeling using statistical techniques, the methodology to perform model diagnostics, forecast accuracy measurement, and the process to incorporate market intelligence and finally how demand forecasting fits into the corporate S&OP process.

Benefits of attending our Workshop

1. Get skills you can use at work
   We will explain and demonstrate best practices in model selection, illustrate how to improve model quality, and teach you how to leverage forecast measurement process.  We will also provide a free software for you to use in your day-to-day forecasting work.
2. Learn from industry experience
   We will bring practical examples from our consulting experience in Sales Forecasting and Business Forecasting
3.  Network with peers
   You will have the opportunity to meet, interact and learn from other demand planning professionals with team challenges and networking exercises.
4. Add to your credentials – This is a pre-requisite for our Certification
   Upon completion, you will be awarded a certificate of completion from Demand Planning LLC, attesting to your newly-acquired skills in Demand Planning and Forecasting.

On the third day, we will be offering the CADP certification program that includes a refresher course and the certification exam. CADP will distinguish you from your peers and will provide you the ability to navigate through both the technical and analytical aspects of the profession. For more details please visit http://demandplanning.net/CADP.htm

Attendees using SAP as their demand planning tool will benefit by attending the one-day add-on workshop on ‘Modeling and Metrics in SAP APO’ on 21^st September.  We will teach you the tips and tricks of how to leverage the most out of the APO system. We will also discuss various statistical models and forecast error metrics available in APO. To read the whole agenda please visit http://demandplanning.net/modeling_metrics_in_apo.htm.

Brief outline of the workshop:

1. Demand Planning Overview
2. Data Cleaning and Adjustments for Demand Forecasting
3. Statistical Modeling
4. Product Life Cycle & Long-term Planning
5. Assignment of Forecasting exercises to participants
6. Data Analysis and SKU Segmentation
7. Forecast Errors and Model Diagnostic
8. Event Modeling
9. Discussion and answers assigned exercises
10. Planning for Intermittent Demand
11. Measuring forecast performance

For detailed information on the outline, Please visit http://demandplanning.net/demandplanning_tutorialMA.htm

Registration now at http://demandplanning.net/seminar_anregistrations.php