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SUMMARY:Free Webinar: Practical Strategies for Forecasting Weekly and Daily Data
DESCRIPTION:Click Here to Register Now!\nDescription:\nCreating accurate weekly or daily forecasts is more challenging than creating accurate monthly forecasts\, but if this is what your business requires\, don’t worry! There are several practical approaches— including some that are often overlooked— that your team can adopt to improve your weekly or daily forecasts. \nIn this live one-hour educational webinar\, Eric Stellwagen and Sarah Darin will discuss strategies for forecasting weekly and daily data\, and some issues that may come up when working with this data. Through real-life case studies you will learn practical approaches for: \n\ndefining the calendar\naccommodating week 53\ncorrecting for the number working days\ntracking holidays\nforecasting multiple cycles (e.g.\, day of week and week of year)\nconverting between different periodicities\n\nEric and Sarah will also demonstrate multiple approaches\, including seasonal simplification\, event models and machine learning\, that can improve daily and weekly forecast accuracy in Forecast Pro. \nCan’t attend the live webinar? Register for the session and we will notify you via email when the recording is available for on-demand viewing. \n  \nClick Here to Register Now!\n 
URL:https://dev.forecastpro.com/event/free-webinar-practical-strategies-for-forecasting-weekly-and-daily-data/
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SUMMARY:Free Webinar: How to Forecast New Products
DESCRIPTION:Click Here to Register Now!\nDescription:\nLet’s face it—forecasting new products is difficult. With little or no historic data\, many traditional forecasting methods just won’t work. \nSo how do you forecast new products? \nIn this one-hour webinar\, Eric Stellwagen and Sarah Darin will share some insights. They will survey different approaches for effectively forecasting new products and discuss the role of judgment and market research. \nEric and Sarah will review the following classifications for new products and discuss pros and cons of various forecasting methods used for each category: \n\nReplacement products\nProduct line extensions\nNew-to-company products\nNew-to-world products\n\nUsing real-world examples\, Eric and Sarah will demonstrate popular methods for new product forecasting including product mapping (aka item supersession)\, forecasting by analogy\, custom component models\, assumption-based models and the Bass diffusion model. \nCan’t attend the live webinar? Register for the session and we will notify you via email when the recording is available for on-demand viewing. \n  \nClick Here to Register Now!\n 
URL:https://dev.forecastpro.com/event/free-webinar-how-to-forecast-new-products/
LOCATION:Online Webinar
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SUMMARY:Free Webinar: What Is Machine Learning — and Will It Improve My Forecasts?
DESCRIPTION:Click Here to Register Now!\nDescription:\nMachine Learning and AI have emerged as transformational methodologies with a multitude of applications—facial recognition\, medical diagnosing and self-driving cars—to name a few. \nBut can Machine Learning be used to improve your forecasting? Recent forecasting research suggests that it can. \nIn this webinar Sarah Darin overviews the basics and benefits of automated Extreme Gradient Boosting (XG Boost)\, an effective and accurate Machine Learning algorithm recently implemented in Forecast Pro. \nDuring this one-hour webinar you will learn: \n\nThe basics of Machine Learning powered forecasting\nWhen ML is likely to improve your forecasts\nHow to use the completely automatic ML option in Forecast Pro\nHow to build custom ML models in Forecast Pro\n\n  \nClick Here to Register Now!\n 
URL:https://dev.forecastpro.com/event/free-webinar-what-is-machine-learning-and-will-it-improve-my-forecasts/
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SUMMARY:Free Webinar: What’s New in Forecast Pro TRAC v7?
DESCRIPTION:Click Here to Register Now!\nDescription:\nIntroducing Forecast Pro TRAC Version 7!\nIn this one-hour webinar\, Erik Subatis and Sarah Darin will provide an overview of four new functionalities in Version 7: \n• Machine Learning\n• Product Mapping\n• Forecast Value Add Reporting\n• Excel Collaboration Enhancements\nThis webinar will demonstrate how to use these new functionalities in Forecast Pro using real-life examples.\nCan’t attend the live webinar? Register for the session and we will notify you when the recording is available for on-demand viewing. \nClick Here to Register Now!\n 
URL:https://dev.forecastpro.com/event/free-webinar-whats-new-in-forecast-pro-trac-v7/
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SUMMARY:Free Live Webinar | Staying On Track: How to Prevent Short-Term Forecast Uncertainty From Derailing Your Long-Term Demand Planning
DESCRIPTION:April 29\, 2021 @ 2:30pm – 3:30pm EDT\nClick Here to Register Now!\nDescription:\nIf the past year has taught us anything\, it is that unusual times create great uncertainty\, particularly when it comes to short-term forecasting. During these times it is natural to become reactive and focus on the short-term\, however\, losing sight of your long-term demand planning assumptions can be a recipe for disaster. \n  \nDuring this webinar\, Timm Reiher and Todd Ferguson\, two demand management experts from Oliver Wight will discuss strategies for managing uncertainty and explore techniques in demand planning to help you bridge the short and the long term. The webinar will also include a demonstration of how to use the Forecast Pro software to generate both short and longer-term forecasts. \n  \nBy the end of this one-hour webinar you will learn: \n\nHow inaccurate short-term forecasts can influence long-term planning\nHow to apply demand planning strategies that bridge the short and long term\nHow to manage unconstrained demand in a constrained supply environment\nHow to prepare forecasts when it is not business as usual\n\n  \nClick Here to Register Now!\n\nSpeakers: \nTimm Reiher\n \n \nTimm Reiher\, an Oliver Wight principal\, is an expert in Demand Management\, Sales Operations\, Product and Portfolio Management\, Integrated Business Planning\, and is a Certified Instructor for the Oliver Wight Demand Management and Demand Labs executive education courses. With more than 20 years of experience in industry\, his background spans product management\, sales and account management\, customer service\, sales operations\, data warehouse systems\, and CRM (customer relationship management) improvement initiatives. \n  \nSince joining the Oliver Wight team\, Timm has worked with a wide range companies and industries including government (Department of Defense)\, consumer packaged goods\, food and produce\, farming\, chemicals\, high-tech\, packaging\, pharmaceutical\, and heavy industry. Timm is skilled at assessing current company practices\, coaching and facilitating the design of best-practice future states\, and providing “shoulder-to-shoulder” support for practitioners and business leaders while implementing all aspects of Integrated Business Planning including Demand Management and Product Innovation. \nTodd Ferguson \n \nTodd Ferguson\, an Oliver Wight principal\, offers insights and solutions to help companies achieve improved financial performance. His background includes over two decades of experience in sales\, order fulfillment\, demand management and Integrated Business Planning across a wide variety of industries. Current and former clients include Cargill\, Dow Chemical\, Facebook\, General Electric\, Tiffany and Zeus Industrial Products. \n  \nTodd’s experience includes people and process improvement and hands-on implementation of tools including SAP APO Demand Planning. He led the implementation of a Demand Management function for Weir Oil & Gas\, an upstream oil and gas leader that specializes in the manufacture of high-pressure well service pumps and related flow control equipment. In this role\, he drew on his skill as a Demand Planning expert to help define and continuously improve the company’s Integrated Business Planning process. Todd has a deep understanding of the underlying tools required to support an effective Demand Management process. \n  \nClick Here to Register Now!\n 
URL:https://dev.forecastpro.com/event/free-live-webinar-staying-on-track-how-to-prevent-short-term-forecast-uncertainty-from-derailing-your-long-term-demand-planning/
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SUMMARY:Free Live Webinar: Tracking Accuracy: An Essential Step to Improve Your Forecasting Process
DESCRIPTION:Click Here to Register Now!\n  \nTo 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 educational one-hour session you will learn: \n• Why it is important to track accuracy\n• The differences between within-sample and out-of-sample errors\n• Approaches to measuring forecast error\n• The pros and cons of popular accuracy measures\n• How to implement accuracy tracking\n• How exception reports can streamline the review process \nIn this one-hour live Webinar\, Eric Stellwagen\, CEO\, and Sarah Darin\, Senior Consultant at Business Forecast Systems\, Inc.\, will demonstrate how to apply best practices and avoid common pitfalls using examples with real corporate data. \nNote: even if you can’t attend the live Webinar\, by registering now you will be automatically notified when the recorded session is available for viewing on demand.
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