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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.”
Gartner: Gartner Survey Identifies the Top 10 Priorities for CFOs in 2023
February 8, 2023
“The incorporation of new technology and data into finance processes has the potential to elevate the function into a real-time provider of strategic insights and data for a business.”
CFO Magazine: The CFO’s Changing Role: 5 Data Points from the 2023 CFO Outlook Survey
February 8, 2023
Only 7% of respondents reported that the benefit of their CFO’s best skillset is scenario planning and forecasting.
CFO Dive: CFO FP&A Close-up: Finance Function’s ‘Octopus’
January 31, 2023
“Those in charge of the behind the scenes work that goes into budgets and forecasts as well as the analysis of those results, need to have a futuristic, or forward thinking mindset.”
