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)
This interactive webinar is designed to help you get the most out of IBF’s range of products and services, to help both develop your career as an individual and drive transformational change in your company. Managing Director, Anish Jain, and Director of Thought Leadership, Eric Wilson CPF, will reveal how membership, training, conferences, certification, and IBF’s extensive knowledge library help develop the world’s leading demand planning professionals.
For individuals, we will show how you can develop your skill set and validate those skills to build a rewarding and well-remunerated career in demand planning, and for planning leaders, we will reveal how you can build effective teams that use best practices in forecasting and planning to drive profitability and improve key KPIs.
We’ll also discuss IBF’s industry-leading corporate training, including online and face-to-face, and flexible, on-demand eLearning. That’s not to mention IBF’s industry leading assessments and consultancy services where IBF assesses your current demand planning and S&OP maturity level and makes tailored recommendations designed to take your company to demand planning maturity, with the option of an renowned IBF expert to implement those recommendations.
There will be a Q&A at the end, so if you have a specific question about developing your skills, building effective teams, or engaging IBF’s consultancy services, do not hesitate to submit your question during the webinar.
We will discuss:
- Learn how IBF training develops skills for both individuals and teams in demand planning, forecasting, and S&OP
- Learn how IBF’s Certified Professional Forecaster (CPF) certification validates skills for individuals and teams, and empowers career progression
- Learn about IBF’s world-leading conferences and training, including online
- Learn the benefits of individual and corporate membership, giving you and your team access to the Journal of Business Forecasting, discounted events, and access to the entire IBF knowledge library
- Understand how IBF assessments and consultancy services work and how they assess a company’s maturity level and establish planning functions and S&OP processes from scratch