Kaminsky, Philip; Swaminathan, Jayashankar M. - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 3 (2001) 1, pp. 68-81
We present a model for forecast evolution that captures two notions related to forecasts: (1) forecasts are not exact; (2) forecasts over longer horizons are less certain than those over shorter horizons. We model the forecast of discrete demand as a band defined by the lower and upper bounds on...