IBF Webinar: We Were Already Broken - Fixing Vulnerable Supply Chains Post-COVIDFree webinar and Q&A for demand planning and supply chain professionals
Patrick Bower
Sr. Director of Supply Chain
Actylis
Prior Roles
- Plan for Demand: Practice Manager of Supply Chain Planning for clients including Diageo, Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Foster Farms, Cabot Industries and American Girl
- Cadbury
- Kraft Foods
- Unisys
- Snapple
- Numetrix
- Atrion International: Vice President of R&D
Award
- IBF Award for Excellence in Business Forecasting & Planning
Jonathon Karelse
CEO
NorthFind Management
Prior Roles
- Recognized thought leader in demand planning and S&OP and is CEO and co-founder of the consultancy NorthFind Management
Education
- Graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management
- Member of the 2019 Management Excellence cohort at Harvard Business School
- Member of the Harvard Business Review’s Advisory Council
Industry Involvement
- Long-term contributor to the IBF’s body of knowledge, with a specific focus on forecasting metrics, decision making, and behavioral science
- Author of the Amazon #1 Best Seller for his book, Histories of the Future: Milestones in the Last 100 Years of Business Forecasting
Eric Wilson, ACPF
Director – Thought Leadership
Institute of Business Forecasting & Planning
Prior Roles
- Escalade Sports: Director of Demand Planning
- Berry Plastics: Director of Demand Planning
- Tempura Sealy International: Director of Demand Planning & S&OP
Industry Involvement
- Frequent speaker and panelist for many executive forums and professional conferences
- Written numerous articles in publications including The Journal of Business Forecasting and APICS Magazine
- Author of the books Cultural Cycles and Predictive Analytics for Business Forecasting & Planning
Award
- IBF Excellence in Business Forecasting & Planning
Certification
- IBF Advanced Certified Professional Forecaster (ACPF)
In this free-to-attend webinar and Q&A, supply chain leaders will reveal how supply chains were set up to fail long before COVID hit. The combination of changing customer expectations, over use of Lean and Just-in-Time methodologies, SKU proliferation and BOM complexity set the supply chain up for future failure. We'll discuss how over-optimized supply chains reduced both slack capacity and inventory and were at least part of the reason for massive shortages of essential items during the pandemic. We'll also share ideas on how we can move forward as a discipline to make supply chains more robust and adaptive to the changing global environment. Our experts will take your questions.