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Title: DEMAND FORECASTING
Description: Demand forecasting is known as the process of making future estimations in relation to customer demand over a specific period. Generally, demand forecasting will consider historical data and other analytical information to produce the most accurate predictions.
Description: Demand forecasting is known as the process of making future estimations in relation to customer demand over a specific period. Generally, demand forecasting will consider historical data and other analytical information to produce the most accurate predictions.
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DEMAND FORECASTING
Demand forecasting is the systematic process to evaluate future demand for a
specific product
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With the help of demand forecasting businesses can
enhance inventory by predicting future sales from analyzing past sales data to
make proper business decisions about everything from inventory planning and
warehousing needs, to running flash sales and meeting customer demands
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Steps in Demand Forecasting
1
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Demand forecasting should have a clear purpose
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Determining the nature of goods: Different goods have their own
special demand, for example, capital goods, consumer durables, and nondurable goods
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3
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While forecasting demand for a short term, we can
assume many determinants of demand to remain unchanged, or do not
change significantly
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Thus, it is
necessary to define the time
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Making a choice of method of forecasting: after setting of aim and time
perspective, the method for implementing the forecast is selected
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The forecaster
must choose the method that best suits his requirement
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Collection and adjustment of data: after deciding the method the next
step is to collect the needed data which may be primary or secondary or
both
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Estimation and interpretation of results: the last step is to evaluate the
demand for the predefined period
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Demand Forecasting Methods
There are two basic types of demand forecasting methods: qualitative methods
and quantitative methods
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Each expert is suggested to generate a forecast of their elected specific
segment
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A consequent forecast is again
produced by all experts and the process is repeated until all experts achieve a
near agreement scenario
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Each salesperson evaluates their
respective region, product categories, and serves their individual customer
demand
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Market research: here, customer-specific surveys are used to generate possible
demand
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This type
of technique could be useful for products that have little to no demand history
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This historical data sets up a time series which illustrates the past sales
and projected demand for a specific product category under normal conditions,
biographical plotting method, or the least square method
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Forecasters use statistical analysis like leading series,
concurrent series, or lagging series to make the demand forecast
Econometric forecasting technique: it uses auto regressive integrated movingaverage and complex mathematical equations to create relationships between
demand and factors that affect the demand
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Finally, the projected values
of the influencing variables are introduced into the equation to make a forecast
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Though it will never be 100 percent accurate, forecasting demand can
help you improve production lead times, increase operational efficiencies, save
money, launch new products, and provide a better customer experience
Title: DEMAND FORECASTING
Description: Demand forecasting is known as the process of making future estimations in relation to customer demand over a specific period. Generally, demand forecasting will consider historical data and other analytical information to produce the most accurate predictions.
Description: Demand forecasting is known as the process of making future estimations in relation to customer demand over a specific period. Generally, demand forecasting will consider historical data and other analytical information to produce the most accurate predictions.