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Welcome . .
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Searching To Enhance Your Professional
Skills In Forecasting, Demand Planning, and Forecast
Management?
Knowing the basic "ins and outs"
of demand forecasting and planning is critical for any
business, as well as your success as a professional. At
a CPDF
Workshop, you hear from the most experienced
forecasting experts and enjoy an interactive, hands-on
learning experience. After the two-day instructor-led
workshop, you can earn a certification through a
self-paced, online e-learning exam
process conducted by qualified CPDF Team Leaders. Whether you
are new to demand forecasting or not, you will gain
valuable information that will benefit your company and
you in your career.
"I have already seen
dividends from the first CPDF workshop and
certification. At work my forecasting responsibilities
have grown from the West to the entire US, a
challenge for which knowing the PEER process
has prepared me for, giving me not only the tools to
perform well, but also confidence in the job." -
Forecaster, Wireless Network Company,
USA

Amsterdam (EU) and
Shanghai, China
Develop The Knowledge, Skills, Talents And
Sensitivities That Are Critical To Achieving Your Goals
Now And In The Future
The Certified Professional in Demand
Forecasting (CPDF) curriculum was
launched in 2007 as a new voice in the forecaster
training world. In contrast
to conventional training programs for
forecaster certifications that are based on
listening to overviews on techniques and the rote
memorization of multiple choice exam questions, the
(CPDF)
curriculum emphasizes learning the collaborative
process of doing the forecasting job
efficiently and by
successfully mastering forecasting review
cycles.
Cape
Town, South Africa and the Amsterdam (EU)
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Shanghai,
China
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Istanbul, Turkey
You Get Promoted When You Have Changed
Your Job, Not Just Done a good Or Excellent
Job!
The
CPDF hands-on
workshops offer practical tools for on-the-job learning
to enrich your job function and enhance your value to
the business. Our best practices
Structured Workshops
In Forecaster
Training (SWIFT)
courseware for demand forecasters and planners, endorsed
by the International Institute of Forecasters (IIFwww.forecasters.org),
offers individuals and organizations the skills and
standards necessary to perform at world-class levels
with forecasting effectiveness and productivity in
todays highly competitive, global
marketplace.
Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia
Text Book For Registered
Participants
Participants
registering for a CPDF Workshop will receive a discount
on the purchase of the book Forecasting: Practice and
Process for Demand Management. Authored by renowned
experts Hans Levenbach and James P. Cleary, this is
an ideal reference book for supply chain practitioners
and courses on modern forecasting techniques. It also
provides managers and planners with the tools that they
need to analyze and predict future customer demand for
new and existing products and services.
For beginners and professionals with
specific industrial experience, the CPDF
face-to-face courses provide the concepts and
techniques behind all the facets of demand
planning, from data sourcing and structuring forecast
data, analyzing forecasting models to creating a final
forecast for Sales & Operations Planning. For
people who are new to the field -- at either
managerial or operational levels -- the scope and
perspective of these courses are indispensable. For this
learning process, we utilize Excel and Excel Addins to
reinforce best practices and avoid worst practices. You
will master state-of-the-art forecasting techniques and
practices with PEERForecaster, an easy-to-use Excel
Add-In.
CLICK HERE
to download a FREE copy of PEERForecaster Add-in for
Excel . . .
Who Should
Attend?
Newcomers to
the demand planning management
field
Experienced
professionals who'd
like to increase their forecasting
knowledge
Executives
from other corporate areas who've
been placed in positions that now manage demand planning
activities
The CPDF Certification
Curriculum is All About
Hands-on Learning
The CPDF certification curriculum
has been endorsed by the International Institute of
Forecasters (IIF). A certification designation can be
earned at three levels:
CPDF Principles
and Best Practices requires completion of Basic
Curriculum (Level I: 20 contact hours/70 independent
hours)
CPDF_Master Demand
Forecasting Methodology and Data Analysis Technologies
requires completion of Master Curriculum (Level
II: 20 contact hours/50 independent
hours)
CPDF_Pro
Collaborative Forecasting, and Process Integration
requires completion of Pro curriculum (Level
III: 15 contact hours/35 independent
hours).
Training
Workshops can be completed in any order.
What You'll Learn
Using a
hands-on, interactive workshop structure, you'll define
the demand planning and forecasting work
cycle and its essential contributions to all
aspects of the Sales & Operations (S&OP)
planning process. You will gain a profound understanding
of how all the components of the S & OP planning
process work together with a 'best practices' demand
forecasting cycle. Some of the topics
include:
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Determining Customer
Needs, New Product Requirements and
Location-specific demand patterns |
Utilize
Proven Data Analytics for Analysis and
Predictive Reporting |
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Structuring
Data Sources for Automatic
Forecasting |
Preparing
the Most Important Drivers for the Forecasting
Process |
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Designing
an Effective Forecast Support System for Decision
Making |
Identifying
the Most Appropriate Accuracy Measures and
Applying Them Correctly |
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Interpreting
Regression Models for Forecasting Trend, Cycles,
Seasonal and Promotional Patterns |
Selecting
the Final Forecast Numbers With Field Sales Input
in a Collaborative Framework |
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Measuring
Risk and Creating Forecast Ranges in an Uncertain
Demand Forecasting World |
Implementing
a Sales and Operations Process While Breaking Down
Organizational Silos |
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Analyzing
the Business Environment From a Multi-Impact
Perspective |
Eventhough
All Forecasts are Wrong, Know How
to Reconcile Baseline Demand Forecasts,
Models and Field Forecasters |
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Implement
the Demand Forecasting Function as a Structured
Approach in Your Organization |
Implementing
and Supporting World-Class Forecasting
Practices |
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