FGS Public Workshops

Three-Day Intermediate Workshop with optional fourth day

If you're a new user who's taken the introductory workshop, or an experienced user who would like to review additional FGS features, this is the workshop for you. You'll learn alternative techniques and more advanced features and tools
and meet other experienced users.

Who should attend?

New users or those who inherited the forecasting position who have a good basic knowledge of FGS
Experienced users who learned FGS a while ago and wish to learn advanced concepts
Hands-on managers of forecasters and inventory planners who want to learn advanced alternative techniques to forecast and set service

Syllabus

Other techniques to measure and set service
Economic order quantities
What is excessive inventory?
New product introduction
Lead time reduction
Bills of materials (kits)
Planning bills
Component safety stock
Interactive commands
Report writing and advanced queries

Hands-On exercises

What service can you get for $3 million?
Set inventory for A and B service groups
Invest money to reduce lead time
Creative commands
Build your own reports

Optional Day 4

Bring a copy of your database, commands and reports on your laptop
Apply lessons learned in prior three days
Look for inventory reduction opportunities
Practice and implement techniques
Write useful commands
Design reports
Implement SQL interface
Class selects hands-on exercise
Implement Access-Link