Teaching Sales & Marketing to Create Their Own Forecasts for Better Demand Planning
EUROPE VIRTUAL BUSINESS PLANNING, FORECASTING & S&OP CONFERENCE
Teaching Sales & Marketing to Create Their Own Forecasts for Better Demand Planning

You will learn:

  • Why qualitative input about customers and the market from Sales and Marketing is crucial in forecasting.
  • How to encourage your global sales teams to create their own forecasts.
  • How to increase the quality of the forecasts received from your Sales and Marketing teams.
  • How to keep colleagues in Sales and Marketing engaged to provide valuable input to the S&OP process
  • How we got the Sales & Marketing team at Oleon to translate their outlooks into forecasts.
author
Aurélie Stefens
Global Demand Manager
Oleon
After graduating University in 2005 with a Master’s in Applied Economics, Aurélie became a Demand Planner for TerBeke-Pluma in Belgium. Then, she joined BD where she worked in many aspects of the supply chain including Supply Planning, Demand Planning, S&OP, DRP, and SAP Implementation. She currently works as Global Demand Manager for Oleon, a Belgian chemicals company, working on maturing their S&OP process and developing the Global Demand Planning Department.