The International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF) is the premier forecasting conference, attracting the world’s leading forecasting researchers, practitioners, and students. Through a combination of keynote speaker presentations, academic sessions, workshops, and social programs, the ISF provides many excellent opportunities for networking, learning, and fun. Business Forecast Systems (the makers of Forecast Pro) will be running a [...]

Optimizing inventory levels has always been a challenge, and in today’s environment—with highly-informed customers, SKU proliferation and omni-channel order processes—it is even harder to reach that goal. By building replenishment models that complement your business forecasting processes, your company can manage inventory more effectively to keep it flowing efficiently through the Supply Chain.

This seminar 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.

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