As we enter the data age, leading organizations are leveraging advanced methods, models, and approaches to improve forecast accuracy, automate forecasting processes, and better understand consumer behavior. The results are tangible: increased cash-flow, reduced inventory, and improved customer service. IBF’s Advanced Demand Planning & Forecasting Boot Camp is a training program designed to give practitioners the tools to take business planning performance to the next level. This is both for practitioners looking to build models themselves, as well leaders who need to understand inputs and outputs to lead advanced analytics projects.

This program takes forecasters and demand planners beyond time series forecasting and opens up the world of AI and predictive analytics, allowing you to extract unprecedented value from the data your company holds, as well external data including social media, product reviews and much more. You’ll learn the different analytics models including Regression, Clustering, Artificial Neural Networks, Decision Trees and others, and how to prepare and manage data to leverage these next level techniques. This includes approaches that can be used for scenario planning and what-if analysis allowing you to react to whatever the future brings, including black swan events that provide the kind of extreme demand and supply shocks we saw in 2020 and 2021.

Why YOU should Attend:

• Get expert instruction that takes you beyond Time Series forecasting to advanced analytics including AI, predictive analytics and machine learning.
• Learn cause-and-effect techniques that drive unprecedented consumer insight and improved forecast accuracy.
• Designed for both practitioners looking to use advanced models and leaders looking to understand the predictive analytics landscape.
• Learn how to manage and prepare data for advanced analytics.
• Put your questions to leading S&OP, Demand Planning, Forecasting, Predictive Analytics & Data Science professionals.
• Gain concrete knowledge of your software’s capabilities and its ability to correctly interpret your software’s output, while understanding the techniques it uses.
• Learn advanced Data Science applications with machine learning and predictive analytics for forecasting.
• Learn advanced models like Regression, Decision trees, Clustering, Artificial Neural Networks and more.
• Prepare for the Advanced IBF certification exams: ACPF
• Earn 10 points towards IBF recertification
• All this and much more...

IBF’s Demand Planning & Forecasting Boot Camp w/ Hands-on Data Science and Predictive Analytics Workshop, offers attendees the opportunity to roll up their sleeves and learn from our thought leaders in the field.

Topics (partial list):

• Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and predictive analytics for demand planning and business forecasting.
• Data science for business forecasting.
• Advanced analytics methods.
• How to build predictive analytics models.
• Clustering, Regression, Decision Trees, Artificial Neural Networks.
• Association rules.
• Data visualization.
• 'R' scripting.
• Databases, data extraction and data assembly.
• The role of forecasting systems in advanced analytics.
• And more!

The Institute of Business Forecasting & Planning – IBF is a membership organization recognized worldwide as the premier full-service provider of demand planning, forecasting, business analytics, S&OP education, benchmarking research, training, certification, world-class conferences, and advisory services. Since 1981, the IBF has been helping businesses improve their forecasting and planning performance in an effort to enhance growth, optimize supply chains, and improve their bottom line. It has been said that no other organization on the globe has as much depth in its educational content for Demand Planning & Forecasting as IBF.

Having some of the world’s most well known global companies as its members, the IBF is constantly finding and disseminating better ways to manage demand, improve organizational efficiency, and company performance. By becoming an IBF member, you can ensure that you stay current with proven best practices, link with global professionals facing similar challenges, ascend in your career, and bring your organization to best-in-class levels in performance. The IBF is a pioneer in developing a Demand Planning, Forecasting, and S&OP Certification program that can help boost your credentials, as well as, give management greater confidence in its people. The IBF is known for two levels of certification: Certified Professional Forecaster (CPF®) and Advanced Certified Professional Forecaster (ACPF®).