Demand-Driven Forecasting for Big Box Retailers
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 2:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time

Panelist(s) Info:
Scott Roy, CFPIM, CIRM, CPA Director of Demand Planning Wells' Dairy, Inc. 


Description:
Here's the VendorWebCast to attend to if you want to understand the importance of utilizing the knowledge of your external organization to improve forecasting and thus operational efficiency-specifically, how to work with Sales Teams and Business Teams to increase forecasting accuracy. You'll hear examples of business processes that continuously pull this knowledge through the organization and allow management to have more direct and accurate data, along with examples of obstacles that occur while implementing these processes-and how to overcome them.

Top Learning Objectives:
*How to implement business processes for collaboration, consensus building, and S&OP
*How to decrease working capital by using forecasting business processes
*How to report global demand easily, quickly, and at the highest levels of the company
* How to incorporate customer centric information into your demand planning process.

Who Should Attend:
Buyer/Planner, Demand Planning Manager, Director/Material Planning, Director/Planning, Director/SupplyChain, Director/Purchasing,Forecast Analyst, Manager of Operations Planning, Manager of Production and Inventory Control, Managers in Materials Management, Procurement, Operations Management or Supply Chain, Master Planner or Scheduler, Plant Manager, President,Sales and Marketing Manager, VP of Manufacturing, Materials and Distribution, Supply Chain Management, Operations,Production or Global Operations

Content level: Intermediate

Scott Roy is the Director of Demand Planning at Well's Dairy Inc in LeMars, Iowa. Wells Dairy markets and manufactures Wells Blue Bunny packaged ice cream and novelties along with manufacturing other private label lines.

Scott is responsible for managing their demand planning and Sales and Operation Planning processes. Scott has spoken at past IBF and APICS conferences on topics from S&OP to demand management. He has a wealth of prior work experience; before coming to Wells' he worked in public accounting as a CPA, cost accounting, Information Systems; implementing two ERP solutions, production and inventory control manager and Director of Strategic Planning. Scott graduated from college with a major in Accounting and Business Administration and a minor in Economics. Along with being a CPA, Scott is certified by APICS as a CFPIM and CIRM.

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