Name: Microsoft & Board Webinar - Driving a resilient Supply Chain with Intelligence
Start: 2023-03-21T17:00:00Z
End: 2023-03-21T17:00:47.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Keep yourself updated with the latest in-market Financial Transformation initiatives for corporate planning and analysis. Board helps more than 2000 organizations worldwide achieve smarter planning to obtain actionable insights for better outcomes.

Inventory stuck in an inefficient returns process increases costs, impacts customer service, and dilutes margins; something retailers cannot afford in today’s fast-paced, unpredictable market. Watch this webinar replay jointly hosted by Thought Provoking Consulting (TPC) and Board as SMEs in the retail and supply chain speakers (listed below) talk about exploring how to mitigate the margin dilution by managing costs and inventory from returns more effectively. 

Speaker Panel: 
Richard Hyman - Strategy Partner, Thought Provoking Consulting; Lara Battinson - Senior Consultant and Head of TPC's Merchandise Planning practice; David Food - Head of Supply Chain Marketing, Board International

Retail BORIS (Buy online, return in-store) - Mitigating risk margins

Enhanced Driver-Based Planning and Forecasting within the organization is an essential part of the roadmap toward modern Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A). 

• But what is Driver-Based Planning and forecasting at its core?
• Why does it matter for FP&A? 
• How can we successfully implement it? 

Driver-based modeling is an important component for achieving agility and adaptability. It helps us to bring key business drivers that impact business evolution the most and allows on-demand planning and forecasting.

With this in mind, this 90-minute discussion focus on the power of Driver-Based Planning and Forecasting.

Speakers – 
1. Remko Boer, VP Finance - Shell Upstream Controller/ Planning & Appraisal and Reporting at Shell, London FP&A Board and Amsterdam FP&A Board member
2. Massimo Garau, Director Finance and Administration at Storck Deutschland KG
3. Tanja Schlesinger, VP OneSource at Deutsche Bahn Regio AG, Frankfurt FP&A Board member
4. Andrew Turner, Finance Solutions at Board International
5. Olga Rudakova, Finance Professional and International FP&A Board

The Power of Driver-Based Planning and Forecasting for Modern FP&A

Watch this video to find out how Butterfly Network effectively transformed their financial planning into a better, more intelligent decision-making process as it required to respond quickly and effectively to unprecedented market conditions. 

Speaker Panel – 
Spenser de la Vega – Global Planning & Fulfillment Manager & Amit Danenberg – Head of Enterprise Systems and Data (Butterfly Network); Dave Food – Head of Supply Chain (Board International)

Intelligent Supply Chain Planning with Butterfly Network

Listen to this insightful case study on how BASF Agricultural Solutions grappled with the post pandemic challenges to build bigger and better pipeline and closed deals successfully at a faster rate by transforming their sales planning & forecasting through an integrated, automated and continuous planning approach. 

Speaker Panel: Stefan Storchmaier, Product Owner Global Commercial Excellence - Agricultural Solutions; Stephan Ultsch, Regional Project Lead - Agricultural Solutions EMEA; Tim Laukat, Senior Consultant, celver

BASF: Transforming sales forecasting through integrated planning

For many years, the International FP&A Board has been developing an FP&A Maturity Model to highlight the attributes of the best-in-class FP&A department. Watch now to learn more about how to achieve FP&A Intelligent Transformation using the insights from the model that allows organizations of any size, industry, and geography to assess where they are in terms of planning and analysis.

Achieving Intelligent Transformation with a Maturity Model - FP&A Trends Webinar

Watch this session with Lora Cecere - Founder, Supply Chain Insights, as she explores the new research into the current disconnect between Finance and Supply Chain that limits organizations to manage a profitable and executable plan and how to create a cohesion to attain Supply Chain excellence

Improving Financial and Supply Chain Alignment

After 40 years of spreadsheet dominance for planning, budgeting and forecasting is the accountants’ favorite tool about to wither and die? So, if organizations need to displace spreadsheets, what sort of foundations are required? Can laggards catch up with their competitors and how will planning, forecasting, and reporting continue to evolve? Watch this on-demand session from FSN to learn more about the impact of the death of disconnected spreadsheets.

FSN - Is the death of the disconnected spreadsheet for forecasting imminent?

Watch this on-demand webinar to learn more about the transformation of FP&A Processes through Advanced Analytics. FP&A Trends will demonstrate how combining the 3 key elements of FP&A maturity – Process, Analytics and Technology can lead to a successful finance transformation.

Speakers 
Arslan Hafiz, FP&A Director International at AstraZeneca Rare Disease
Alex Beired, Director, Corporate FP&A at Owens Corning
Lawrence Serven, FP&A Thought Leader and Author, Regional Director at Board International
Olga Rudakova, International FP&A Board Ambassador

Transforming FP&A Processes through Advanced Analytics - FP&A Trends Group

How can finance teams lead an FP&A transformation? How can they support the business to quickly adapt to change and uncertainty? How can they drive better decision-making through intelligent planning? Watch this session to explore how key planning transformation drivers impact daily business performance in a leading organization.

Microsoft and Board: Cracking the Code of Finance Planning

Finance teams still find themselves spending too much time on time-intensive, low-value-adding tasks in their regular budgeting, planning and forecasting. This means not enough time focused on providing better insights and partnering with the business to make better decisions. Watch this session to find out how KPMG Germany has revolutionized their forecasting, with Board, to allow the office of finance to become true business partners.

KPMG & Board: The death of traditional forecasting

Listen to this webinar recording to hear from Jesse Alleyne – Director, Industry Solutions at Microsoft, and Dave Food – Head of Supply Chain Planning at Board international, as they share insights on the latest trends in Supply Chain planning for the Manufacturing industry and how to ensure the supply chain plans remain commercially resilient amid uncertainty.

Microsoft & Board Webinar - Driving a resilient Supply Chain with Intelligence

Supply Chain

Demand Planning

Manufacturing

FP&A

Finance Directors

Supplier Risk

Digital Transformation

Budget Finance

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