Online Workshop: Business Forecasting Techniques, Best Practices & Application Using Forecast Pro

Asia Pacific Region

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Workshop Overview

You will leave this comprehensive three-day educational course with an understanding of forecasting techniques, including how they work and how to apply them in a real business environment. The workshop surveys the most commonly used business forecasting methods and will cover the following:

  • How various forecasting methods work
  • Pros and cons of each method
  • How to implement best practices in Forecast Pro (via demonstrations using real-world examples)

The core of the workshop is 13.5 hours of live interactive presentations presented over a 3-day period. During the live sessions you will have the opportunity to pose questions to the instructors in real time as well as interact with the other attendees.

The workshop also includes 2 weeks of access to the workshop’s streaming channel. The streaming channel provides on-demand access to prerecorded versions of the 8 modules presented in the live sessions along with 4 additional modules not covered in the live sessions.

Who should attend?

The workshop is valuable for anyone whose job responsibilities include preparing or analyzing forecasts—some prior knowledge of statistics is helpful but not essential. The tutorials use Forecast Pro and real-world data to provide a deeper understanding of the forecasting methods and to show best practices; these lessons are applicable regardless of which forecasting software your organization uses.

 

Registration

Registration Fee: The registration fee is $595 USD per attendee. A Team Discount price of $495 USD per attendee is available to organizations registering 3 or more attendees.

Class size: Due to the interactive nature of the live presentations, attendance is limited to 25 and attendees will be registered on a first-come-first-served basis.

Hours: December 11-13, 2024: The workshop will run from 11:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day (AEDT (UTC/GMT +11 hours)). There will be a final Q&A session on Friday, December 14, 2024 from 11:00 – 11:30 am AEDT.

Cancellation Policy: The workshop is limited in size and we ask that if you must cancel to please inform us as soon as possible. Attendees may receive a full refund if cancellation is made 14 days or more prior to the start of the workshop. Registrants who fail to attend or cancel less than 14 days before the start date are not entitled to receive a refund. Personnel substitutions may be made at any time.

Instructors

This workshop is presented by Supply Chain Business Solutions, in collaboration with Business Forecast Systems, to support the forecasting community in the Asia Pacific Region.

 

Dinesh Shah

Dinesh Shah is Founder and Director of Supply Chain Business Solutions, an authorized Forecast Pro distributor. Dinesh is a demand forecasting, inventory management and planning, and supply chain management professional with over 40 years of experience in the industry. He has helped over 150 Australian and Asia Pacific companies implement forecasting, demand planning, replenishment planning, and advanced planning and scheduling solutions to effectively streamline their business processes in those areas. Dinesh has helped many well-known Australian and Asia Pacific Region companies significantly improve supply chain management processes to achieve significant reduction in inventories (in some cases as much as 50%), significant improvement in forecast accuracy (in some cases as much as 40-50% improvement), and significant improvements in customer service and productivity. He has also provided education in forecasting, demand management, sales and operation planning, inventory management, and supply chain management to more than 1500 people in 250+ companies.

Eric Stellwagen

Eric Stellwagen is the co-founder of Business Forecast Systems, Inc. (BFS) and the co-author of the Forecast Pro software product line. With more than 30 years of expertise in the field, he regularly presents workshops and publishes on the topic of business forecasting, and is widely recognized as a leading educator on the subject. Drawing upon his extensive consulting experience helping organizations to address their forecasting challenges, Eric infuses his classes with practical approaches and uses real-world data to illustrate concepts. He has worked with many leading firms including Coca-Cola, Kraft, Merck, Nabisco, Owens-Corning and Verizon and has presented workshops for a variety of organizations including APICS, the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF), the Institute of Business Forecasting (IBF), the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), and the University of Tennessee. Eric served on the board of directors of the IIF for 12 years and is currently serving on the practitioner advisory board of Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting.

Franklin Rea

Franklin Rea brings over 15 years of expertise in data analysis, technology, marketing operations, and mathematics to his role at BFS. With a background in the enterprise software sector, Franklin has navigated varied industries such as cyber-security, campaign management, and sales training and enablement. In addition, he has worked as a college-level mathematics instructor.  At BFS, Franklin serves as a trainer and solutions consultant, assisting clients in maximizing their utilization of the Forecast Pro software, and providing a problem-solving approach and valuable insights to everyday forecasting questions. Franklin holds an M.S. in Mathematics from Northeastern University and received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College.

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