Certified Forecaster and Demand Planner (CFDP) Professional Certificate

What you will learn:
- Supply chain management essentials, inventory planning fundamentals, and their role in achieving a balance between supply and demand.
- To lead Demand Planning Processes in the context of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and Collaborative Planning (CPFR).
- To develop quantitative, judgmental, and causal forecasting models for seasonal, intermittent, and new product demand.
- How to choose the right forecasting method for each data pattern and understand how to improve forecast performance with Machine Learning and Lean Six Sigma principles.
- How to mitigate the risk of inaccurate forecasts and deal with randomness, low forecastability, missing data, outliers, disruptive events, and overfitting.
- How a Make-and-Sell organization can become Demand-Driven, and how Demand Sensing and Data Analysis can improve Supply Chain Response.