Who should attend
Forecasters, demand planners, business analysts and executives who want to make their forecasting process more streamlined and effective.

This Webcast is for anyone – in any industry – who wants to ensure that their organization is getting the best, most efficient forecasts possible.

What you’ll learn
Invest a little time in this Webcast, and you’ll understand what Forecast Value Added (FVA) analysis is and why it’s being used by many organizations to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of their forecasting processes.

Key takeaways
This Webcast will provide step-by-step details on how to perform FVA analysis:

• Mapping your process: Identifying all the steps and participants in your forecasting process so you can understand the resources invested.
• Gathering data: Figuring out what needs to be collected and how it should be organized and stored for analysis.
• Conducting the analysis: Understanding how to compute the FVA metric, interpret the findings and identify sources of process waste.
• Reporting results: How to present FVA results in tabular and graphical formats, and how to communicate these results to management.

Sample data sets will illustrate the data collection, analysis and reporting of FVA results, and we will discuss the real-world results of FVA analysis at companies from a variety of industries.

Because FVA can reveal waste and inefficiencies in your organization’s current process, it can be a politically difficult topic, and we will discuss the best ways to communicate your findings to management.

Presenters
Mike Gilliland, Product Marketing Manager, SAS
Mary Côté, Business Consultant, DeltaWare