Widiarta, Handik; Viswanathan, S.; Piplani, Rajesh - In: International Journal of Production Economics 118 (2009) 1, pp. 87-94
We study the relative effectiveness of top-down (TD) and bottom-up (BU) strategies for forecasting the aggregate demand in a production planning framework. The aggregate demand series is composed of several correlated subaggregate components (or items), each of which is assumed to follow a...