{"id":1587,"date":"2012-12-21T11:06:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T16:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2012-12-21T11:06:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T16:06:22","slug":"have-you-read-the-new-issue-of-the-journal-of-business-forecasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/2012\/12\/21\/have-you-read-the-new-issue-of-the-journal-of-business-forecasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you read the latest issue of the Journal of Business Forecasting (JBF)?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Journal<\/a><\/p>\n

Volume 31 Issue 3<\/strong>
\nFall 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click here to become an IBF member and get a JBF subscription FREE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Featured Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Successful Global S&OP: Leadership, Change Management, Behavior, & Cross-Cultural Differences<\/strong><\/span>
\nNiels Van Hove<\/strong><\/em> explains as businesses go global, the expansion of the S&OP process must follow. He outlines why cultural issues are so important and how to adapt to them. One of the factors in the success of Global S&OP is a company\u2019s ability to adapt to the local culture, while developing and implementing S&OP. It is important to recognize we have the ability to change our company\u2019s culture, but not the country it is situated in. Other key considerations include constructive behaviors, effective change management, and leadership support, all covered in this excellent and timely article.<\/p>\n

Forecasting Performance For North American Consumer Products<\/strong><\/span>
\nRobert F. Byrne<\/strong><\/em> demonstrates another inventory reduction tactic utilizing forecast improvement and bias reduction by forecasting using daily instead of monthly data. His demonstration includes data from a who\u2019s who of large companies including Procter and Gamble, Unilever, Kraft Foods, Kimberly-Clark, General Mills, ConAgra Foods, and Campbell\u2019s Soup.<\/p>\n

Ranking Professional Forecasters in an Unbalanced Panel: A New Approach<\/strong><\/span>
\nJohn Silva<\/strong><\/em> and Azhar Iqbal<\/strong> <\/em>point out the flaws in the methodology currently used by Bloomberg in ranking forecasters, and provide a solution to improve the accuracy.<\/p>\n

What Demand Planners Can Learn from the Stock Market<\/strong><\/span>
\nCharles Re Corr<\/strong><\/em> empathizes with the challenges faced by forecasters in industries like utilities, ranching and the stock market. His article details the connection of demand forecasting to the stock market.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the IBF<\/strong><\/span>
\nLarry Lapide<\/strong><\/em> discusses the role the Institute of Business Forecasting & Planning has played in disseminating the knowledge of sales forecasting and planning over the last 30 plus years.<\/p>\n

Taking the Worthwhile Trip from S&OP to SIOP<\/strong><\/span>
\nSean P. Willems<\/strong><\/em> In his article, Sean P. Willems shows how an inventory optimization tool can help to reduce inventory in the S&OP effort.<\/p>\n

Acceleration of Global Growth in 2013 Led by the Americas and Non-Euro Countries in Europe<\/strong><\/span>
\nEvangelos Otto Simos<\/strong><\/em> talks about acceleration of global growth, which he feels will be led by the Americans and Non-Euro countries in Europe. He also gives updated growth rates and inflation rates of 60 different countries.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Economy…Stuck in Neutral<\/strong><\/span>
\nJack Malehorn<\/strong><\/em> discusses why the US economy is stuck in neutral, and presents forecasts of 13 key economic indicators and predicts how they will affect economic growth<\/p>\n

Click here to become an IBF member and get a JBF subscription FREE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Journal of Business Forecasting has been providing demand planning, forecasting, supply chain, and S&OP practitioners with jargon-free articles on how to improve the value of their roles and company performance from improved forecasting and planning for over 30 years. A subscription to the JBF comes with IBF membership at no additional cost.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0http:\/\/www.ibf.org\/index.cfm?fuseaction=showObjects&objectTypeID=365<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Volume 31 Issue 3 Fall 2012 Click here to become an IBF member and get a JBF subscription FREE Featured Articles: Successful Global S&OP: Leadership, Change Management, Behavior, & Cross-Cultural Differences Niels Van Hove explains as businesses go global, the expansion of the S&OP process must follow. He outlines why cultural issues are so important […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[61,34,35,36,167,37,38],"class_list":{"0":"post-1587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-forecasting-and-planning","7":"tag-business-forecasting","8":"tag-demand-planning","9":"tag-forecasting","10":"tag-ibf","11":"tag-journal-of-business-forecasting","12":"tag-sop","13":"tag-supply-chain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}