The paper focuses on best practices in demand forecasting. Literature has addressed the best practice concept under … three different perspectives. According to the universalistic perspective, some forecasting practices are universally … effective regardless of the context in which companies operate. In the contingent perspective, the effectiveness of forecasting …

provides an appropriate tool for forecasting Chinese business conditions. …

sold through such outlets. Traditional forecasting methods provide no insight into the impact of the service level defined … forecasting system developed provides estimates for excess deliveries and for the expected shortages. The results compare … into the distribution policy, with only small adaptations to the existing forecasting and distribution policy. …

redress this imbalance by advancing a forecasting model for general elections in a young democracy, Portugal. Building on the …

In this paper we investigate the impact of data revisions on forecasting and model selection procedures. A linear ARMA … real-time monetary aggregate M3 (1977-2000), and residential mortgage credit (1975-1998). The forecasting method we use is … multi-step-ahead non-adaptive forecasting. …

This research presents a comparative analysis of the wind speed forecasting accuracy of univariate and multivariate …

Forecasting spare parts demand is notoriously difficult, as demand is typically intermittent and lumpy. Specialized … the type of component repaired. This two-step forecasting method separately updates the average number of parts needed per …