Andrew Schneider is a veteran supply chain and business science professional, with a 20 year career spanning journalism, sales, demand planning, analytics, emerging data sciences, strategy, and enterprise risk management. He is a thought leader for the IBF and a member of the esteemed advisory board, an ASCM award-winning fellow & certification holder, and an always-hungry learner of & contributor to the business planning field. He has vast experience across leadership & practitioner roles in CPG, Footwear & Apparel, Food & Beverage, and Medical Device sectors, along with systems implementation, COE deployment, and full supply chain transformation experience. Andrew is presently employed in a supply chain management role with Viega LLC, but also maintains his consultancy practice and is always available to network, consult, and serve. He is an IBF Advanced Certified Professional Forecaster (ACPF).
Matt Hoffman is the Customer Success Leader at John Galt Solutions. Matt has led countless successful software implementations utilizing best in class supply chain planning platform Atlas Planning. He has saved companies hundreds of millions in inventory cost through both transformational and tactical projects delivered across distributors, manufacturers and retailers.
Matt has worked with a wide range of clients in manufacturing, distribution, and retail. While he is a subject matter expert when it comes to implementing solutions across numerous ERP and Planning packages, he is adamant that the process has to drive the tools in order to foster adoption and deliver superior, measurable results.
Matt is currently working with key John Galt clients to adjust their process and technology to fit the new challenges brought on by the global health crisis.
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
Eric is a predictive analytics and business planning innovator, author, and speaker. He is the Director of Thought Leadership at the IBF. Prior to this he worked as the Director of Demand Planning at Escalade Sports, Director of Demand Planning at Berry Plastics, and Director of Demand Planning & S&OP at Tempur Sealy International. In 2016, he received the Excellence in Business Forecasting & Planning award from the IBF. He is an IBF Advanced Certified Professional Forecaster (ACPF) with over 20 years of experience. Eric is a visionary in his field, a frequent speaker and panelist for many executive forums and professional conferences and has written numerous articles in publications such as The Journal of Business Forecasting and APICS Magazine. He is also the author of the books Cultural Cycles and Predictive Analytics for Business Forecasting & Planning.
In this 2nd part of our Forecasting During A Pandemic series sponsored by John Galt Solutions, we have demand planning experts who will touch on the current financial crisis and what it could mean for the economy and different sectors going forward.
Join a panel of renowned thought leaders and top demand planning professionals and hear them discuss how to manage demand during the current disruptions by adding the relevant assumptions into your forecast and plans. We will deal specifically on what models they are using and what assumptions will work best.
You will be able to put your questions to the panel. Here are just a few of the questions/topics we will be addressing:
- To what degree should we adjust our demand history at this time and do you have any advice as to any best practices to determine the proper adjustment?
- In this crisis situation what are your best tips for demand planners in terms of cleansing the impact of the virus from historical data?
- How do we measure the impact of Covid-19? When we cleanse the baseline, should we add the total decline from the baseline or should we also assume a decline already?