Demand Planning Training Workshops – What Is Out There? What Is Different About Us?

There are various queries on Linked-In about the best courses in Demand Planning and Sales Forecasting.  It is time to set the record straight on good Demand Planning Training workshops and why Demand Planning LLC is the best provider for Demand Planning and S&OP training workshops.

I have seen two types of offerings in the market place:

1. Extremely academic and Formula oriented workshops – Good for the academic researcher but of little practical value to the Demand Planner.  These courses focus heavily on the math and talk about serial negative auto-correlations, heteroscedasticity, Generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity, ARCH, GARCH etc.  Not that there is anything wrong with it, it may definitely be useful while getting a Ph.D. in Econometrics.

1. Concept oriented courses that cover best and worst practices – and more often worst practices – but these workshops limit themselves to concepts.  They do not actually help instructing people on how to do this better in their every day jobs.  I have heard more people say that some of these workshops all talk about what is not working all the time.  I have also seen really light-weight courses that use a lot of lingo and lot of citations of real stuff happening in the business world – but without much numerical examples or calculations or problem-solving.  Concepts are good but without no test of the theory in practice, they are not good enough.

The workshops offered by Demand Planning Net are unique in the sense we actually offer practical, hands-on workshops.  We assign pre-work to every attendee before the come to the workshop.  Every one needs to bring a laptop to work through individual and group exercises to create actual demand plans and solve demand analytic challenges.

They submit solved case studies before they get a certificate of completion.  This certificate of completion is essential as a pre-requisite before appearing for the certification exams in Demand Planning and Sales Forecasting.

Many professionals who have attended our workshops, have reported back that they were able to use the concepts in their every day activity.  Many of our attendees are our loyal fans and have sent their colleagues and peers and successors to the workshops.

Here is a comment from a planner who was new to the role:

“I am new to this field and new to this type of analytics. I found this workshop to be one of the best things my company could have sent me to. THANK YOU! ”

“Out of all demand planning seminars, classes, speaking events, and conferences I found this workshop to be one of the best things my company could have sent me to. I would recommend this to anyone, even veterans in the field.”   – Demand Analyst at RedGold

Here are couple of video testimonials-

http://demandplanning.net/video_testimonial_%20north-american-breweries.htm.

http://demandplanning.net/video_testimonial_imp-aerospace.htm.

You can review all the testimonials at

http://demandplanning.net/testimonials.htm.

We understand you have a choice in the market place on what courses to attend and how to judiciously spend your company’s training budget.  A little bit of research would go a long away along with questioning your objectives. What is important – theory, concepts, practice or a combination of things that actually help you be a better planner.

The entire mission of our firm Demand Planning Net is to make planning better and better the planners!

You can attend our Dallas Workshop in Feb 2013 or the Boston Workshop in May 2013.

http://demandplanning.net/workshops.htm

Please call my office with questions!