IBF Certification Overview CPF & ACPF

1. IBF Certification OverviewCPF & ACPF Institute of Business Forecasting & Planning - IBF Tel: +1.516.504.7576 (New York) Email: info@ibf.org web: www.ibf.org

2. Why Get Certified? How does it benefit the company and the Demand Planning & Forecasting Professional?

3. Benefits: For Employees • Validate your experience, knowledge, and skill-sets • Enhance your credentials, and advance your career • Set an example for others in your department • Become more recognized at your company, as well as in the field • Pre-qualify yourself for new positions in the field • Improve your career opportunities

4. Benefits: For Employers • Certified individuals are pre-qualified, allowing you to identify the right person for a Demand Planning & Forecasting position with ease • Increase the value of your forecasting & planning staff, department, and company • More likely to improve company performance • Save time and resources in training! CPF or ACPF professionals already have a verified body of knowledge

5. IBF Certification Program Board of Advisers • Key Forecasting Management & Professional from: • Amgen • Nestle • Bayer • Maidenform • Astrazeneca • BASF • SAS Institute • Boeing Company • P&G • Lowe's Companies. Inc. • MIT • University of Notre Dame • Carter’s

6. Companies with CPF or ACPF (Partial List) Abbott Acuity Brands Lighting ADC Telecommunications Alberto Culver Alcatel-Lucent American Italian Pasta Company American Red Cross American Textile Company Amway Anderson Windows Andrew Corporation Anteon Corp AOL AstraZeneca Aveda Aventis Pharmaceuticals Baker Oil Tools Barnes Distribution BASF Corp Baxter Healthcare Bayer Best Buy Biomarin Black & Decker British Gypsum Brown Forman Capital One Carhartt Cartech Caterpillar Celgene Char-broil Chemtura Chevron Texaco Cisco Systems Cleco, Inc. CNH Global Con Edison Conros Corporation Continental Tire Cooper Lighting Cordis Corning Cable Systems Coty Inc. Cummins Day Spring Cards Dealer Tire Delta Delta Faucet Deluxe Corporation Depuy Orthopaedics DePuy Spine Discover Financial Disney Dorel Juvenile Group Dorman Products Dow Corning Dupont E & J Gallo Winery Canada EAS East Penn Manufacturing Eaton Filtration GmbH Edmund Optics Eircom Elkay EMD Chemicals Emerson Process Emirates Telecommunication Cooperation Emyco ESAB FedEx Fisher Scientific Fruit of the Loom Fuji Photo Film USA Gap GE General Mills Georgia Pacific GlaxoSmithKline Globe Electric Goodyear Graco Children's Products Grundfos Pump Corp. Hanes Brands Heineken Heinz Hewlett Packard Hollister Hypro Pumps Infosys Technologies Ltd Intuit Invitrogen Ipex Inc. John Deere Johnson & Johnson Juno Lighting Group Lafarge North America Land O'Lakes Lifescan Lilly Logitech MAC Manhattan Toy Maple Leaf Foods Mead Johnson Melaleuca Mepha Ltd. Merrill Lynch Michelin Microsoft Mine Safety Appliances Monster Cable Products Motorola Inc Nature's Path Foods Neiman Marcus Nestle Netjets Nordstrom Norfolk Southern Corporation Noveon Novozymes Nuskin Oberto Ogio, Intl. ON Semiconductor Corp. OnStar Oracle Corporation Panasonic Pepsico Pfizer, Inc. Pharmavite Philip Morris Prevost Parts Primus Canada Procter & Gamble Quantum Corporation Rand McNally Research In Motion Revlon Rich-Sea Pak Corp Roche Diagnostics Rubbermaid Sanford Sappi Fine Paper Sara Lee Sartomer Satyam Saudi Aramco SBC Communications SC Johnson SCA Tissue Scholastic Book Fairs Scunci International Sealed Air Sears Shire Pharmaceuticals Inc Sigma Aldrich Smith & Nephew Sony Spring Industries Standard Textile, Inc. Sun Chemical Syngenta SYSCO Food Systems TastyKake Tektronix Tennant Company Manufacturing Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Texas A&M University The Boeing Company The Hartz Mountain Corp The Scotts Company The Toro Company Thermatru Timberland T-Mobile Turtle Wax, Inc. Tyson Foods Under Armour Unilever UnitedHealthcare University of Notre Dame USAA USG Victoria's Secret Stores Vi-Jon Laboratories Wal-Mart Stores Inc Walt Disney World Welch's Woodward World Kitchen Wrigley Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Xcel Energy Yokohama Tire Zytec

7. Levels of IBF Certification Offered • Certified Professional Forecaster (CPF) • Advanced Certified Professional Forecaster (ACPF)

8. IBF CPF – The Exams • 3 Exams –100 to 150 questions • Exams Taken Individually – Objective Tests, Multiple Choice • 2 Hours per Exam

9. IBF CPF Exam Content Exam 1 • Role of Forecasting & Planning in Decision Making • Demand Planning (Demand Sensing, Shaping, & Creating) • Forecasting & Planning Process • Consumption (POS Data) Based Forecasting & Planning • Consensus Forecasting & Planning • Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) Process • Collaborative, Planning, Forecasting, & Replenishment (CPFR) • Inventory Management Exam 2 • Data Analysis & Treatment • Fundamentals of Models & Modeling • Types of Models • Time Series Models • Model Selection • Metrics: Measuring Forecast Error and Performance Exam 3 • Forecast Reporting & Presentation • Forecast Communication • Winning Support and Confidence of Management • Getting Buy-in from Stakeholders

10. IBF ACPF – The Exams • 2 Exams • Exams Taken Individually – Objective Tests (Multiple Choice) • 2 Hours per Exam • Must be CPF

11. IBF ACPF Exam Content • Module 4 • Regression Modeling • ARIMA Modeling/Box-Jenkins • Module 5 • Forecasting Systems/Package

12. Study Materials Provided and Preparation Related Events • Study Materials • CPF • Suggested Reading List • Practical Guide to Business Forecasting • ACPF • Suggested Readings List • Regression Analysis: Modeling and Forecasting • Preparation Related Events • IBF Tutorials • IBF Statistical Workshops • IBF In-House Seminars • IBF Online Training • IBF Certification Review Course • Professional Experience

13. Certification Period &Renewal Requirements • Initial Certification Period = 4 Years • Certification Renewals Every 4 Years • Requirements for Renewal without Reexamination • CPF • 40 CE Points for Renewal • ACPF • 50 CE Points for Renewal

14. How to Keep Certification Current for Renewal • IBF Conferences, Tutorials, and Workshops • IBF In-House Training Program • IBF Membership • Other Forecasting Related Conferences • IBF Board or Committee Member • Publish a Forecasting Book • Publish Original Research on Forecasting or related • Publish an Article on Forecasting or related • Speak at a Forecasting or related Conference • Successful Completion of an Academic Course in Forecasting • Plus, we’re open to considering others means not listed above

15. Certification Examination Locations • Same Locations Globally as: • IBF Conferences • IBF Tutorials • IBF In-House Training/ Your Company • IBF Workshops

16. Win-Win For Both Employer & Employee • Enhance Demand Planning & Forecasting Skills & Knowledge • Improve Business Decisions • Increase Business Performance • Build Staff with Relative Ease • Increase Recognition in the Demand Planning & Forecasting Field

17. For More Information • Visit the IBF Website • www.ibf.org • Call the IBF for more information • +1.516.504.7576 (9am to 6pm EST, New York) • Skype: IBF_NY • Find IBF on Social Networks • LinkedIn • Twitter.com/DemandPlanning • Facebook.com/DemandPlanning • IBF Blog: www.demand-planning.com