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IBF's Leadership Forum is where executives and leaders in S&OP/ IBP, forecasting, demand planning, supply chain and analytics come together to discuss key developments, challenges and opportunities. It is designed to provide high-level management and their associates with the latest best practices.
You’ll be able to put your questions to our expert panelists featuring senior directors and VPs at Fortune 500 companies, many of whom have overcome the same challenges you are facing now.
The Forum will have 3 Executive Discussion Streams:
Executive Stream 1:Making S&OP/ IBP A Competitive Advantage During Good Times & Bad.
Establishing S&OP/ IBP as Your Organization’s Compass
Executive Stream 2: Leveraging Demand Planning, Business Forecasting & AI.
People, Process, and Technology in the New Age of Planning
Executive Stream 3:Optimizing Supply Chains to be More Efficient, Agile and Sustainable.
Key Pillars of a Resilient Supply Chain in the Face of Disruption
Get An S&OP Assessment & Review with an Expert
When you register for IBF’s leadership Forum, you get the option to carry out a self- assessment of your S&OP process using IBF’s proprietary maturity model, plus one-on-one time with an IBF expert who will review the findings. Your IBF expert will identify strengths and weaknesses, and where you have gaps in your process. During the review they will provide actionable recommendations to improve your S&OP process, or to set up a new process. You’ll receive valuable guidance and direction along with resources to help your journey to S&OP maturity. All IBF experts have extensive experience in leadership roles in multi billion dollar companies at senior director or VP level.
Get Cost of Forecast Error Template
Choose the GOLD PACKAGE to receive the Cost of Forecast Error Template to build a business case for investing in your company’s forecasting and planning function. This valuable resource will reveal how much your company will save by improving under- or over-forecasting.
Get Benchmarking Research
During the forum, IBF will share some of its global research that will help you know where you and your company stand with others. Those that register with the GOLD PACKAGE, get access to IBF’s research reports, which includes valuable research across forecast error in major industries, metrics used, data used, salaries, new product planning, S&OP cadence and other best practices.
Access Members Only Demand Planning & Forecasting Workshop
Choose the GOLD PACKAGE with IBF Membership and you’ll get access to the pre-forum, 1-Day Forecasting and Planning Tutorial. This high-level workshop offers the perfect grounding in forecasting and planning, serving as a fundamental course with the latest best practices. You’ll get other members only benefits, including the Journal of Business Forecasting delivered to your door quarterly, as well as discounted entry to IBF conferences and training.
Supplement the Leadership Forum with IBF’s Best Practices Conference
Taking place the following 2 days at the same location after the Leadership Forum is IBF’s Business Planning, Forecasting, and S&OP/ IBP Conference. These 2 days are geared for planning professional at all levels. They are divided into 2 tracks:
- Track 1: Essentials will meet the skills needs for new professionals with fundamentals and foundation they use to gain proficiency in their roles
- Track 2: Next Level will be offered to professionals who want to improve on their existing skills and capabilities with more advanced insights
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Forum ScheduleOct 18, 2023
Over the years, the IBF has identified the companies that lead the way in S&OP/ IBP and what it takes to become truly best-in-class. For many organizations, however, this transformation is a struggle, with many being unclear as to where they are currently and how to build the right road map to maturity. This makes successful implementation of S&OP/ IBP and sound forecasting principles a key competitive advantage - both during business as normal and when crises like Covid-19 hit. You’ll learn how, during difficult times, S&OP/ IBP ensures your supply chain remains intact and helps maintain sufficient inventory to meet demand while your competitors face existential threat. We'll also cover how supply chains were overly optimized for lean principles and had insufficient slack to withstand disruptions like COVID.
This leadership stream is your opportunity to learn how the world’s best ensure all assumptions are met for better business planning, and how they manage processes to achieve true cross-functional participation, alignment and accountability across all departments. What’s more, you’ll hear how industry leaders are using best practices and fundamentals of forecasting to deliver results in the age of Artificial Intelligence. Together we will address the changing world and how to mature your planning processes to meet your needs and build on future capabilities. This is your chance to do what most companies have failed to do – deliver a robust, value-adding process that works for today and tomorrow and can handle whatever lies around the corner.
THE KNOWLEDGE YOU WILL GAIN INCLUDES:
- How to integrate internal and external variables into your planning and S&OP/ IBP processes
- How to better assess risk during times of disruption like Covid-19 and use scenario planning and demand shaping to respond proactively to changing demand
- How to achieve true cross-functional participation, alignment, and accountability across all departments, including Finance, Sales, Commercial, Supply Chain and more
- How to track and measure S&OP/ IBP and demand planning effectiveness
- Tools you can use to help evaluate where you are in your S&OP journey including IBF’s advanced maturity model
- Key pitfalls to avoid when building your S&OP/ IBP roadmap
- What benchmarks to use and which to avoid
- How to measure if your S&OP/ IBP process is successful
- How COVID revealed that supply chains were over-optimized and vulnerable to any demand/supply shocks
As a leader, it is up to you to provide insights and build demand planning and business forecasting capabilities. That’s hard enough at the best of times but is even more challenging when a crisis hits and teams must think outside the box to predict and manage demand. We now compete not so much on price or quality, but on our ability to interpret data. And given that predictive analytics and business forecasting have reached a tipping point, we must look at organizational design for Demand Planning differently.
In this executive stream, you’ll hear senior level panelists from a variety of companies and industries sharing strategies that have worked to best recruit required talent, develop sustainable processes, and select technology that enables them to succeed. You’ll see what companies are doing differently now to invest in the future of planning and managing big data and artificial intelligence capabilities. This is a unique opportunity to see how senior leaders see the bigger picture, envision future requirements, and be inspired to adapt your demand planning and business forecasting capabilities.
THE KNOWLEDGE YOU WILL GAIN INCLUDES:
- How to determine the optimal demand planning structure for your organization
- The right balance of specific skills needed to succeed, including the skill sets required to handle disruptions and the “new normal”
- How to manage more with limited or less people and resources
- How to start a technology search and avoid technology pitfalls, and tips and tricks for quick, easy access to data and decision making
- How to develop analytics driven roadmap and sell it to leadership
- How to use predictive analytics technology to predict and respond to massive demand disruptions like Covid-19
- How to provide analytics insight to all areas of the business
- How to identify key demand drivers and incorporate them into your forecasts
Supply chain is repeatedly looked at to deliver value and service despite the challenges that are accelerating amidst ongoing volatility, disruption, and gridlock. How supply chain leaders are ready to reduce risk and negotiate uncertainty in a more dynamic and difficult environment is even more crucial as the effects of the pandemic, the global conflict, climate change, and other things persist.
In this executive stream, it will focus on the ability to respond to and adapt to changing economic and environmental circumstances, as well as achieving customer and business objectives. This informative leadership panel will examine how planners have led during times of disruption and how they are currently developing strategies for regeneration and expansion. Learn how to manage risks and navigate uncertainties in the complex environment of today. Discover how planners are guiding through change and preparing for regeneration and growth by looking at examples from the real world. Learn how to establish flexible and robust supply chain skills to position your company for the future.
THE KNOWLEDGE YOU WILL GAIN INCLUDES:
- How to optimize supply chain operations for efficiency and sustainability
- Strategies to mitigate risks and navigate uncertainties in a dynamic environment
- Real-world examples of how supply chain leaders are planning for renewal and growth
- The key pillars of a resilient supply chain: efficiency, agility, and sustainability
- How to lead through disruption and plan for supply chain renewal and growth
- How to address challenges and uncertainties impacting supply chains globally
- Strategies to enhance efficiency, agility, and sustainability in your supply chain
- Business models to build resilience and set your organization up for future success
Member’s discount: -$100
Member’s discount: -$100
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LEADERSHIP FORUM
OCTOBER 18, 2023
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VIP LEADERSHIP DINNER & RECEPTION |OCTOBER 18, 2023
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BEST PRACTICES CONFERENCE
OCTOBER 19-20, 2023
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BREAKFAST & LUNCH
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COCKTAIL RECEPTION
OCTOBER 18, 2023
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FUNDAMENTALS OF S&OP, DEMAND PLANNING & FORECASTING TUTORIAL
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IBF MEMBERSHIP
(1 YEAR)
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CPF CERTIFICATION EXAMS
3 EXAMS
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BOOK: FUNDAMENTALS OF DEMAND PLANNING & FORECASTING
(FREE SHIPPING)
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S&OP/ IBP CERTIFICATE
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IBF members include well-known company professionals that span a broad array of business sectors. By joining our organization, you can make certain that your company sets up the right forecasting & planning process and uses the best techniques available. Moreover, you can be sure that your forecasting and demand planning staff has the proper knowledge and skill set for success.
- A subscription to the Journal of Business Forecasting, which is primarily written by and geared toward practitioners.
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