Building Demand Forecasting Models for Production and Inventory Planning

A senior-level treatment of demand forecasting for planning, focused on what changes outcomes.

📍 Tripoli🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

Activity in demand forecasting for planning is easy to generate and easy to mistake for progress. Discounting solves a problem in forecasting for planning today and creates a larger one next quarter. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better this area of marketing and commercial practice is rarely technical. Participants gain a clear basis for measuring what demand forecasting for planning has actually achieved. The version of this strand of marketing and commercial practice described in the manual and the version practised on the floor tend to diverge over time. Sessions alternate between guided analysis of forecasting for planning and supervised application. This programme builds demand forecasting for planning from first principles, without padding and without omitting what matters. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with forecasting for planning. The programme ends where implementation begins, with this aspect of marketing and commercial practice broken into steps someone can start on Monday.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Align marketing and sales handover within demand forecasting for planning so leads are not lost.

02

Set the minimum documentation for forecasting for planning that is genuinely necessary, and stop there.

03

Measure customer lifetime value arising from demand forecasting for planning, not first-order revenue.

04

Design a training and briefing approach that sustains competence in forecasting for planning.

05

Sequence improvements to demand forecasting for planning so that each step makes the next one easier.

06

Choose channels for forecasting for planning on evidence of where the audience decides.

07

Build the content that moves a buyer through demand forecasting for planning rather than merely informing them.

Who Should Attend

01

Coordinators responsible for keeping records and documentation of demand forecasting for planning current.

02

Brand and communications specialists shaping forecasting for planning.

03

Customer experience managers improving demand forecasting for planning.

04

Team leaders and supervisors who put forecasting for planning into practice day to day.

05

Sales managers leading teams that deliver demand forecasting for planning.

06

Commercial analysts measuring performance of forecasting for planning.

Course Modules

01

Demand forecasting for planning: objection handling and negotiation

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Where the buyer actually decides on demand forecasting for planning

  • Map the decision journey for demand forecasting for planning and mark where the choice is actually made.
  • Establish the boundary of forecasting for planning and record what sits outside it.
  • Set the discount authority for demand forecasting for planning and require justification.
  • Set out how exceptions to forecasting for planning are requested and approved.

Session 2Reviewing forecasting for planning when nothing has gone wrong

  • Document the sales process for demand forecasting for planning so a new joiner can follow it.
  • Identify the data already collected that bears on forecasting for planning.
  • Confirm that contractual obligations around demand forecasting for planning are understood.
  • Choose the next segment for forecasting for planning and state why it is next.
02

Forecasting for planning: qualification and pipeline discipline

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Pricing forecasting for planning on value rather than cost

  • Test creative for demand forecasting for planning at small scale before full commitment.
  • Define acceptance criteria for forecasting for planning in advance.
  • Agree the attribution model for demand forecasting for planning and state its known limits.
  • Build the internal briefing that explains forecasting for planning to those affected.

Session 2Keeping customers acquired through forecasting for planning

  • Prepare the summary of demand forecasting for planning that senior management will read.
  • Establish what evidence demonstrates forecasting for planning is under control.
  • Compare cost of acquisition against value in demand forecasting for planning.
  • Design the retention action triggered when a customer of forecasting for planning goes quiet.
03

Forecasting for planning: measurement, attribution and honest reporting

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1What has to be agreed before work on forecasting for planning starts

  • Write the positioning claim for demand forecasting for planning and test whether a competitor could say it too.
  • Select channels for forecasting for planning based on evidence, then cut the rest.
  • Define the handover point between marketing and sales in demand forecasting for planning.
  • Set objectives for forecasting for planning in revenue terms with a timeframe.

Session 2Reading the current state of demand forecasting for planning honestly

  • Script the three most common objections in demand forecasting for planning and the responses.
  • Agree the smallest change to forecasting for planning that would be visibly useful.
  • Measure lifetime value from demand forecasting for planning, not just first purchase.
  • Test the procedure for forecasting for planning against a realistic scenario.
04

Forecasting for planning: pricing, value and discount control

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Qualifying out of forecasting for planning early and without guilt

  • Draft the minimum viable go-to-market plan for demand forecasting for planning.
  • Verify six months later that changes to forecasting for planning have held.
  • Set the review interval for demand forecasting for planning and who attends.
  • Structure pricing for forecasting for planning against perceived value.

Session 2Handling the objection to forecasting for planning that ends most conversations

  • Anticipate the objections demand forecasting for planning will raise and prepare the answers.
  • Confirm that reporting on forecasting for planning reaches the people who can act.
  • Build the content that answers the buyer's real question about demand forecasting for planning.
  • Close out actions on forecasting for planning rather than leaving them open indefinitely.

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Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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