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You find out about the ten new hires when the ten new hires show up. Then you're paying retail to expedite, or explaining to a manager why their new analyst is working off a personal machine for two weeks. This session is about building a device demand forecast whether or not HR loops you in (and then getting it to maintain itself). We'll cover defining standard builds so you're forecasting three SKUs instead of thirty, building a rolling weekly forecast from either the hiring plan or your own deployment history, working backward from vendor lead times to real order by dates, and sizing buffer stock so you're covered without sitting on dead inventory. Learn how to make it stop being a manual chore such as pulling deployment history straight from your MDM instead of counting by hand, using HRIS onboarding events as the trigger that updates the forecast, and setting the alert that tells you an order-by date is coming before it's behind you. You'll leave with the forecasting calculator; something you can drop your own numbers into and run on Monday.