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IBF Research Report #13
The primary benefit of benchmarking is to check the overall health of your forecasting efforts. This health check is not only important, but also essential to an organization's long term forecasting success enabling you to measure your current position against industry standards. Table of contents: ...
IBF Research Report #Q2_2015
It is difficult to arrive at one fixed number of SKUs that a forecaster can manage, because situations vary from industry to industry and company to company. There are several factors at play. It depends on how easy or difficult it is to forecast, what the lead time is, the cost of forecast error,...
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Designed to deal with sporadic demand (no seasonality) with a two-step process. The main goal is to provide a good safety stock, resulting in a situation where there is neither over or under stock. This is accomplished by considering two aspects of the data: the demand size and the…
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