Upcoming Webinar - Supply Chain Forecasting – An introduction to a less well-known art
Friday 14 July at 13.00 – 14.00hrs UK time
Speaker: Richard Murgatroyd, Systems & Innovation Expert, Global Supply Chain at F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.
Convenor: Erik Holzinger, groupH and Forecasting Forum lead.
Following recent global events the topic of Supply Chain has never been far from the news, even covering the pharmaceutical industry. Richard Murgatroyd has a long track record in global, commercial forecasting in both industry and agency and focused in particular on global long-range Supply Chain planning for pharma products during the past 9 years.
He transitioned from being a ‘gamekeeper’ to becoming a ‘poacher’ of forecasts as he puts it. Richard will explain in general terms some of the principles of Supply Chain planning, as well as how he uses long-term volume forecasts in practice to plan manufacturing capacities. He will illustrate how demand forecasts and SC plans support decision making in the short- and long-term and also touch on some measures of reliability as from his old gamekeeper role Richard is very aware of inherent uncertainties in long term forecasting.
Insights Analysts, Forecasters, Marketeers and others who are curious about how their forecasts are used in supply chain planning
About our Speaker...
Richard Murgatroyd, Systems & Innovation Expert, Global Supply Chain at F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
Richard graduated with an honours degree in biochemistry from the University of Bath in 1983. He started his pharmaceutical industry career in research in 1984 at the Wellcome Foundation, in a group attempting to find new treatments for tropical parasitic diseases. After a stint in the global Planning and Systems department, working amongst other things on forecasts using APL and with relational databases on IBM mainframe system, he moved into a market research agency.
In 1992 he joined SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, initially as an analyst in worldwide market research and then worldwide product manager for new neuroscience products. Before joining Roche in 2002, as Forecast Manager in the global marketing function, Richard was a consultant at the Mattson Jack Group, specialising in forecast modelling and carrying out a number of projects for pharmaceutical industry clients. Richard changed tack in 2014, moving into the Roche global supply chain organisation, where he is now Systems and Innovation expert in the Network Strategy group, concerned with volume demand planning as well as implementing and supporting a global planning system.
You can register for this online event here - https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclduihrDMjE9W_yn4PZwvccRj05c…
Any questions just get in touch – generalmanager@ephmra.org