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 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.