Make a New Year's resolution to better understand how working capital needs impact your annual planning and forecasting process -- and how improving working capital performance can help support your strategic plans in 2012 and beyond.

Working capital programs always pique management's interest during times of falling demand and restricted credit markets, but a proactive and focused approach will be required to actively balance the revenue-cash-cost equation and help keep you at the head of the pack as global competition intensifies.

Join Joe Calboreanu from REL Consulting Group as he explains why working capital should be a key component of all corporate planning programs, and more importantly, why a consistent focus on working capital will be a key differentiator in maintaining your competitive edge.

From this Webcast, you will learn:

• Why cash on hand does not necessarily mean good performance
  
  
• How planning for working capital raises the quality of the strategic planning process
  
  
• How monitoring and addressing total working capital metrics can help shape your vision for the future
  
  
• How working capital performance can be improved, and how these improvements bring broader benefits to your organization.

Joe Calboreanu is a Director and one of three Practice Leaders at REL Consultancy Group, a Hackett Group Company. He has more than 12 years of consulting and industry experience working with clients in the defense, automotive, retail, fashion, chemicals and consumer goods sectors to improve enterprise working capital, costs and service performance. Joe specializes in strategic planning, change management, executive advisory, and supply chain management. He holds an B.S. in Aeronautics and an M.B.A. from Rennsselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lally School of Management and Technology.