IBF Video S&OP Unplugged: Predictive Analytics / Uses in Demand Planning
Leaders in demand planning, forecasting, and S&OP discuss the opportunities and challenges they're facing today.
- Predictive Analytics / Uses in Demand Planning
- Building Talent / Demand Planning & Forecasting
- Getting into the Demand Planning Role / Career Journey
- Encouraging Women / Demand Planning
- Why is Demand Planning Great? / Value of the Profession
- Where Demand Planning Belongs? / Organizational Design
- Success in S&OP / The Magic of People

Alan Rozendaal
Director, Demand Planning, Emerging Markets
Nike

Charity Lopez, CPF
Marketing Forecasting Manager
Mondelēz International

Erin Marchant
Director, Aftermarket Planning and Strategy
Collins Aerospace
Erin Marchant is the Director, Aftermarket Planning and Strategy at Collins Aerospace, located outside of Dayton, OH. She has over a decade of varied experience in Supply Chain, from strategic sourcing to material planning, production scheduling to her favorite area, demand management. Erin holds a B.S. in Economics from Heidelberg University, an MBA from Ashland University and a M.S. in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management from Kent State University.

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

Eric Wilson, ACPF
Director of Thought Leadership
Institute of Business Forecasting & Planning
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).