IBF Webinar: We Were Already Broken - Fixing Vulnerable Supply Chains Post-COVIDFree webinar and Q&A for demand planning and supply chain professionals

Patrick Bower

Sr. Director of Supply Chain

Actylis

Prior Roles

Plan for Demand: Practice Manager of Supply Chain Planning for clients including Diageo, Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Foster Farms, Cabot Industries and American Girl
Cadbury
Kraft Foods
Unisys
Snapple
Numetrix
Atrion International: Vice President of R&D

Award

IBF Award for Excellence in Business Forecasting & Planning

Jonathon Karelse

CEO

NorthFind Management

Prior Roles

Recognized thought leader in demand planning and S&OP and is CEO and co-founder of the consultancy NorthFind Management

Education

Graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management
Member of the 2019 Management Excellence cohort at Harvard Business School
Member of the Harvard Business Review’s Advisory Council

Industry Involvement

Long-term contributor to the IBF’s body of knowledge, with a specific focus on forecasting metrics, decision making, and behavioral science
Author of the Amazon #1 Best Seller for his book, Histories of the Future: Milestones in the Last 100 Years of Business Forecasting

Eric Wilson, ACPF

Director of Thought Leadership

Institute of Business Forecasting & Planning

Eric is a predictive analytics and business planning innovator, author, teacher and speaker. As Director of Thought Leadership at IBF, he brings over 20 years of experience, previously leading demand planning at Escalade Sports, Berry Plastics, and Tempur Sealy. Eric is an IBF Advanced Certified Professional Forecaster (ACPF) and received IBF’s Excellence in Business Forecasting & Planning award in 2016. He is a frequent speaker and panelist who has published extensively in The Journal of Business Forecasting and APICS Magazine. Eric is also the author of Cultural Cycles, Predictive Analytics for Business Forecasting & Planning, and Practical Guide to Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP/ IBP).

In this free-to-attend webinar and Q&A, supply chain leaders will reveal how supply chains were set up to fail long before COVID hit. The combination of changing customer expectations, over use of Lean and Just-in-Time methodologies, SKU proliferation and BOM complexity set the supply chain up for future failure. We'll discuss how over-optimized supply chains reduced both slack capacity and inventory and were at least part of the reason for massive shortages of essential items during the pandemic. We'll also share ideas on how we can move forward as a discipline to make supply chains more robust and adaptive to the changing global environment. Our experts will take your questions.

What caused the massive supply chain shortages seen during COVID and the factors behind our vulnerable supply chains

The role of lean, Just-In-Time, SKU proliferation, BOM complexity in supply shortages

How efficiency models can be the enemy of agility

How ever-decreasing lead times removed inventory and, in retrospect, buffers needed to blunt the inevitable disruptive failure

The importance of rethinking our approach to safety stocks and how we can move ahead by revisiting our supply chain design

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