Croston's forecasting method has been shown to be appropriate in dealing with intermittent demand items. The method, however, suffers from a positive bias as shown by Syntetos and Boylan (2001, 2005) who proposed a modification. Unfortunately, the modification ignores the damping effect on the...

Croston's forecasting method has been shown to be appropriate in dealing with intermittent demand items. The method, however, suffers from a positive bias as shown by Syntetos and Boylan (2001, 2005) who proposed a modification. Unfortunately, the modification ignores the damping effect on the...