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SF Magazine: Business Resilience Through Demand Planning
February 8, 2023
“High forecasting error rates can cause a significant impact to a company’s profitability. When the demand plan is inaccurate, either excess or obsolete inventory is stockpiled, or, on the contrary, having insufficient inventory will cause stock-outs, resulting in negative revenue and reduced customer loyalty.”
FP&A Trends: Scenario Planning: Benefits and Critical Ingredients
January 19, 2023
“Scenario Analysis provides a structured way to identify a range of potential outcomes, likely estimate impact and then identify and evaluate possible responsive actions. It reinforces the presence of uncertainty and increases our readiness to deal with various potential outcomes. Scenario Planning provides a disciplined approach to dealing with uncertainty and can be applied to any projections about an uncertain future.”
FP&A Trends: The FP&A Role in Hyperinflationary Context (Argentinian History)
December 20, 2022
“Undoubtedly, one of the biggest challenges in our work is to reduce uncertainty in the construction of future scenarios, understanding the past, anticipating threats and providing analysed information in time for decision-making.”
CFO Magazine: Scenario Planning: A Roadmap Through Recession and Inflation
December 5, 2022
“Historical performance and figures can only get a company so far when the road ahead is so unclear. Ultimately, forward-looking organizations that can rely on thoughtful, detailed scenario planning are the ones that make it through risk and economic uncertainty most unscathed.”
