Kyle Rish
Head of Supply Chain Planning
Emily Skaar
Solutions Consultant
Learn how leading planning teams build multi-year demand plans that give CFOs and CEOs the confidence to commit to major investments, and where AI is starting to help.
Would you bet $50 million on your five-year forecast?
Before approving a major investment such as a new factory, leaders need to know how much demand to expect, when capacity is needed, and where to invest. Yet many long-range demand plans are built in disconnected spreadsheets, with assumptions that rarely reconcile across functions and plans that quickly go out of date. The result is a forecast leadership struggles to trust.
One connected model for long-range demand planning
See how bringing actuals, forecasts, and planning assumptions into one model lets planners compare multi-year scenarios, understand their impact on capacity and cash flow, and keep the plan current with rolling forecasts. Everyone works from the same plan, so big decisions can be made with confidence.
What you will learn
The masterclass moves through four parts, from the fundamentals to what AI can realistically do today.
- What long-range demand planning means. How it differs from your operational demand forecast, what planning horizon it covers, and which strategic decisions it supports.
- The historical pain points. Why long-range demand plans have been hard to build and trust: siloed data, misaligned assumptions across functions, slow scenario analysis, and plans that quickly go out of date.
- The business impact. How a credible long-range demand plan supports capital investment, capacity and network decisions across multi-country markets, and multi-year financial commitments.
- Where AI fits in today. A practical look at how AI assistants in planning tools, such as Pigment's Modeler Agent and Analyst Agent, can help planners build and adapt planning models, compare plans against actuals, and explain what is driving the numbers, with the planner still making the decisions.
Who should attend
- Demand planners, demand planning managers, and heads of demand planning
- Supply planners and supply chain planning leaders
- Supply chain directors and VPs responsible for capacity and network strategy
- Finance and FP&A professionals who build long-term investment cases with supply chain