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Build stronger forecasting, demand planning, S&OP/IBP, and supply planning capability across your team with training designed around your business needs. Choose onsite, live virtual, or scalable self-paced learning, with the flexibility to adapt content and application to your organization.
Benchmarks & best practices
Use IBF research and best practices to identify gaps across skills, processes, technology, analytics, and data, and address them through learning.
Use your own data and challenges
Training can be customized to incorporate your data and specific planning challenges where appropriate.
Get more from your planning systems
Strengthen the forecasting and planning methods behind your ERP or planning technology so teams can make better use of the systems they already have.
Interactive & experiential
Use group activities, hands-on exercises, discussions, case studies, datasets, templates, and practical learning materials.
Available globally
IBF corporate training can be delivered onsite or virtually for teams in locations around the world.
Support change & executive engagement
Customized training can be paired with change-management support and senior executive engagement where needed.
Create one planning language
Give planners, commercial teams, finance, operations, and leaders a common understanding of forecasting, demand planning, S&OP/IBP, metrics, and decision processes.
Level-set capability across the organization
Establish a more consistent level of knowledge and planning maturity across local teams, regions, functions, and global business units.
Improve forecast accuracy & decision quality
Strengthen the methods, analytics, and judgment used to understand demand, plan scenarios, and make more informed decisions.
Improve inventory, service & cash flow
Help teams better connect demand decisions to supply, inventory, customer service, working capital, and business performance.
Strengthen cross-functional alignment
Build clearer roles, accountability, collaboration, and consensus across sales, finance, operations, supply chain, customers, and suppliers.
Build repeatable planning maturity
Embed common practices, metrics, technology understanding, and decision disciplines that can scale as the organization grows and evolves.
Fundamentals of Business Forecasting & Planning
Forecasting fundamentals, collaborative planning, S&OP/IBP, demand planning, metrics, data, models, AI, and practice exercises.
Principles of Advanced Forecasting & Planning
Predictive analytics, model construction, regression, ARIMA, neural networks, classifiers, clustering, forecasting systems, and AI.
S&OP / IBP Training
Fundamentals, data gathering, demand and supply review, financial reconciliation, tactical execution, executive review, metrics, and best practices.
Fundamentals of Supply Chain Planning
Supply planning roles, strategies, demand planning, S&OP, metrics, distribution, manufacturing planning, replenishment, inventory, and master planning.
Supply & Demand Essentials
A blended curriculum combining forecasting and supply planning fundamentals for teams that need a broader end-to-end planning foundation.
Specialty & Executive Options
Additional options include New Product Forecasting & Planning and executive-level workshops for S&OP/IBP, forecasting, and planning.
Selected IBF corporate training programs prepare participants for globally recognized IBF certification and certificate programs, including CPF, ACPF, S&OP, and Supply Chain Planning.
Not sure where to start?
Whether you are responsible for the planning function or evaluating training for your organization, IBF can help determine the appropriate curriculum, delivery format, level of customization, and optional support for your team.