Prior Roles
- Several leadership roles in multiple industries ranging from food and packaging to CPG companies. She has a wide area of expertise including S&OP, demand planning, inventory, and supply planning
Education
- University of Illinois
Award
- Excellence in Business Forecasting & Planning award from IBF
Eric is a predictive analytics and business planning innovator, author, teacher and speaker. As Director of Thought Leadership at IBF, he brings over 20 years of experience, previously leading demand planning at Escalade Sports, Berry Plastics, and Tempur Sealy. Eric is an IBF Advanced Certified Professional Forecaster (ACPF) and received IBF’s Excellence in Business Forecasting & Planning award in 2016. He is a frequent speaker and panelist who has published extensively in The Journal of Business Forecasting and APICS Magazine. Eric is also the author of Cultural Cycles, Predictive Analytics for Business Forecasting & Planning, and Practical Guide to Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP/ IBP).
What gets managed gets improved. Metrics are a crucial component when it comes to tracking and improving the performance of your forecasting and planning processes. In this free town hall, demand and supply planning experts will reveal the metrics that will drive real value in your organization, adding value to demand planning, marketing and sales, and inventory management.
You will learn:
- How to understand the most common forecast metrics
- How to understand your forecast and communicate it to key stakeholders
- How to identify the right metrics that apply to your organization
- How to use your metrics to tell a compelling story about what is happening in your organization
- How forecast metrics can identify meaningful actions for demand planning, marketing and sales, inventory, S&OP and beyond