Improving sporadic demand forecasting using a modified k-nearest neighbor framework

N Hasan, N Ahmed, SM Ali - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2024 - Elsevier
Forecasting sporadic or intermittent demand presents significant challenges in supply chain
management, primarily due to the frequent occurrence of zero demand values and the …

Forecasting supply chain sporadic demand with nearest neighbor approaches

KI Nikolopoulos, MZ Babai, K Bozos - International Journal of Production …, 2016 - Elsevier
One of the biggest challenges in Supply Chain Management (SCM) is to forecast sporadic
demand. Our forecasting methods' arsenal includes Croston's method, SBA and TSB as well …

Intermittent demand forecasts with neural networks

N Kourentzes - International Journal of Production Economics, 2013 - Elsevier
Intermittent demand appears when demand events occur only sporadically. Typically such
time series have few observations making intermittent demand forecasting challenging …

On intermittent demand model optimisation and selection

N Kourentzes - International Journal of Production Economics, 2014 - Elsevier
Intermittent demand time series involve items that are requested infrequently, resulting in
sporadic demand. Croston׳ s method and its variants have been proposed in the literature to …

Forecasting of customer demands for production planning by local k-nearest neighbor models

M Kück, M Freitag - International Journal of Production Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Demand forecasting is of major importance for manufacturing companies since it provides a
basis for production planning. However, demand forecasting can be a difficult task because …

Empirical heuristics for improving intermittent demand forecasting

F Petropoulos, K Nikolopoulos… - … Management & Data …, 2013 - emerald.com
Intermittent demand appears sporadically, with some time periods not even displaying any
demand at all. Even so, such patterns constitute considerable proportions of the total stock in …

Elucidate structure in intermittent demand series

N Kourentzes, G Athanasopoulos - European Journal of Operational …, 2021 - Elsevier
Intermittent demand forecasting has been widely researched in the context of spare parts
management. However, it is becoming increasingly relevant to many other areas, such as …

Intermittent demand forecasting with transformer neural networks

GP Zhang, Y Xia, M Xie - Annals of Operations Research, 2023 - Springer
Intermittent demand forecasting is an important yet challenging task in many organizations.
While prior research has been focused on traditional methods such as Croston's method …

[图书][B] Intermittent demand forecasting: Context, methods and applications

JE Boylan, AA Syntetos - 2021 - books.google.com
INTERMITTENT DEMAND FORECASTING The first text to focus on the methods and
approaches of intermittent, rather than fast, demand forecasting Intermittent Demand …

Forecasting spare parts sporadic demand using traditional methods and machine learning-a comparative study

B Adur Kannan, G Kodi, O Padilla, D Gray… - SMU Data Science …, 2020 - scholar.smu.edu
Sporadic demand presents a particular challenge to traditional time forecasting methods. In
the past 50 years, there has been developments, such as, the Croston Model [3], which has …