User:Markchockal
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Dr. Mark Chockalingam is Managing Principal, Demand Planning LLC, a Business Process and Strategy Consultancy helping clients across industries: Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Products, Chemicals and Fashion Apparel. His specialty consulting areas include Sales forecasting, Supply Chain Analytics, and Sales and Operations Planning. He has conducted numerous training and strategy facilitation workshops for a variety of clients in the US and abroad and also has presented numerous Webinars through the Demand Planning .Net web portal.
With significant expertise in business forecasting and modeling, he is a frequent speaker at major supply chain events on topics ranging from demand management to sales and operations planning. He has presented at events such as:
1. The Forecasting Summitt
2. The Institute of Business Forecasting
3. China Demand Forecasting Conference
4. Supply Chain Planning Conference
Prior to establishing his consulting practice, Mark has worked with manufacturing companies in important supply chain and marketing analysis positions with companies such as Proctor & Gamble, Schering-Plough, FedEx and TVS group of companies.
Mark holds a Ph. D. in Financial Economics from Arizona State University and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and the APICS.
Mark Chockalingam hails from a community of traders based in South India, called Nagarathars. Nagarathars predominantly originated in the Southern tip of India in an area called Chettinad, though they are known to have traveled all over the world and had trading relations with different countries.
