The demand for a particular product or service is typically associated with different
uncertainties that can make them volatile and challenging to predict. Demand …

Reliable demand forecasts are critical for effective supply chain management. Several
endogenous and exogenous variables can influence the dynamics of demand, and hence a …

Accurate demand forecasting is critical for supply chain efficiency, especially for the
pharmaceutical (pharma) supply chain due to its unique characteristics. However, limited …

Demand forecast accuracy in the service supply chains eg spare parts is critical for customer
satisfaction and its financial performance. This is a typical logistic network which is affected …

In the era of modern technology, the competitive paradigm among organisations is changing
at an unprecedented rate. New success measures are applied to the organisation's supply …

In many supply chains, firms staged in upstream of the chain suffer from variance
amplification emanating from demand information distortion in a multi-stage supply chain …

The proper selection of a demand forecasting method is directly linked to the success of
supply chain management (SCM). However, today's manufacturing companies are …

Exponential smoothing methods are powerful tools for denoising time series, predicting
future demand and decreasing inventory costs. In this paper we develop a smoothing and …

Demand forecasting is the basic aspect of supply chain management. It has important
impacts on planning, capacity and inventory control decisions. Seasonality is a common …

The application of predictive analytics (PA) in Supply Chain Management (SCM) has
received growing attention over the last years, especially in demand forecasting. The …