Past Events

For many companies, developing a successful forecasting process can seem daunting considering the challenges that may arise at each step along the way. In this educational one-hour live Webinar, James Berry, Senior Consultant at Business Forecast Systems, Inc. will review a framework to help your forecasting team create a roadmap for designing, implementing and improving upon your forecasting process.

This year’s conference—organized by the respected practitioner journal Foresight—explores the potential impacts of Artificial Intelligence on forecasting and planning. How will jobs and organizations be affected when AI amplifies, supplements and even substitutes for forecaster and planner roles? Eric Stellwagen, CEO and co-founder of BFS, will present A Winning Combination for Increasing Accuracy: AI-based Automatic Forecasting & Domain Knowledge.

To improve the forecasting process in your organization, it is critical to measure and monitor performance to know what is working and what isn’t. You can achieve this—and realize other significant benefits—by tracking forecast accuracy.

In this Webinar Eric Stellwagen, CEO, and Sarah Darin, Senior Consultant, will provide pragmatic insight into how to create your forecasts throughout all phases of the COVID-19 pandemic—including the current initial stage, the uncertain months ahead and the subsequent “new normal” that will emerge. Drawing upon their extensive expertise in forecasting approaches that have been successfully used during other business disruptions, they will profile several business categories, review the methods that are best suited to each group and demonstrate these approaches in Forecast Pro TRAC using real-world examples.

In this webinar, Blake Violette, Forecast Manager at Bells Brewery, will discuss implementing Forecast Pro and how to manage a successful first year.  Blake will give an overview of some of the challenges Bell’s Brewery faced in their implementation process, as well as some of the benefits they have reaped from integrating Forecast Pro into their forecasting and S&OP processes

This workshop surveys the most commonly used business forecasting methods, explains how they work conceptually, discusses their pros and cons, and demonstrates best practices for implementing them in a real-world environment.

This workshop surveys the most commonly used business forecasting methods, explains how they work conceptually, discusses their pros and cons, and demonstrates best practices for implementing them in a real-world environment.

This workshop surveys the most commonly used business forecasting methods, explains how they work conceptually, discusses their pros and cons, and demonstrates best practices for implementing them in a real-world environment.

In this webinar, James Berry, Director of Training and Sarah Darin, Senior Consultant, will provide updated guidance on forecasting in the midst of a pandemic, now that we are well immersed in the current crisis and have a better understanding of how businesses have been impacted. Using real data, James and Sarah will provide an overview of the Forecast Pro methods and techniques that can help you generate more accurate forecasts as we enter a “new normal”.

This workshop surveys the most commonly used business forecasting methods, explains how they work conceptually, discusses their pros and cons, and demonstrates best practices for implementing them in a real-world environment.