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Propel your career forward with a Demand Planning Certificate

Professional Certificate in
Certified Forecaster and Demand Planner (CFDP)
ISCEA

What you will learn

  • Supply chain management essentials, inventory planning fundamentals, and their role in achieving a balance between supply and demand.
  • To lead Demand Planning Processes in the context of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and Collaborative Planning (CPFR).
  • To develop quantitative, judgmental, and causal forecasting models for seasonal, intermittent, and new product demand.
  • How to choose the right forecasting method for each historical data pattern, and how to improve forecast performance with Machine Learning and Lean Six Sigma principles.
  • How to mitigate the risk of inaccurate forecasts and deal with randomness, low forecastability, missing data, outliers, disruptive events, and overfitting.
  • How a Make-and-Sell organization can become Demand-Driven, and how Demand Sensing, Data Analysis, and Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP) can improve Supply Chain Response and overall Supply Chain Network performance.
Expert instruction
4 skill-building courses
3 months
2 - 8 hours per week
Discounted price: $1,454.40
Pre-discounted price: $1,616USD
For the full program experience

Courses in this program

  1. ISCEA's Certified Forecaster and Demand Planner (CFDP) Professional Certificate

Meet your instructor
from International Supply Chain Education Alliance (ISCEA)

Jorge Morales
IISB - Essentials Committee Chair
ISCEA

Experts from ISCEA committed to teaching online learning

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Discounted price: $1,454.40
Pre-discounted price: $1,616USD
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