Demand-Driven Forecasting: A Structured Approach to Forecasting (Wiley and SAS Business Series) - Hardcover

Chase, Charles W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1118669398 ISBN 13: 9781118669396

Publisher: Wiley, 2013

Synopsis

An updated new edition of the comprehensive guide to better business forecasting

Many companies still look at quantitative forecasting methods with suspicion, but a new awareness is emerging across many industries as more businesses and professionals recognize the value of integrating demand data (point-of-sale and syndicated scanner data) into the forecasting process. Demand-Driven Forecasting equips you with solutions that can sense, shape, and predict future demand using highly sophisticated methods and tools. From a review of the most basic forecasting methods to the most advanced and innovative techniques in use today, this guide explains demand-driven forecasting, offering a fundamental understanding of the quantitative methods used to sense, shape, and predict future demand within a structured process. Offering a complete overview of the latest business forecasting concepts and applications, this revised Second Edition of Demand-Driven Forecasting is the perfect guide for professionals who need to improve the accuracy of their sales forecasts.

• Completely updated to include the very latest concepts and methods in forecasting
• Includes real case studies and examples, actual data, and graphical displays and tables to illustrate how effective implementation works
• Ideal for CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, vice presidents of supply chain, vice presidents of demand forecasting and planning, directors of demand forecasting and planning, supply chain managers, demand planning managers, marketing analysts, forecasting analysts, financial managers, and any other professional who produces or contributes to forecasts

Accurate forecasting is vital to success in today's challenging business climate. Demand-Driven Forecasting offers proven and effective insight on making sure your forecasts are right on the money.

About this title

About the Author

CHARLES W. CHASE JR. is the Chief Industry Consultant in SAS's Manufacturing & Supply Chain Global Practice, where he is the principal architect and strategist for delivering demand planning and forecasting solutions to improve SAS customers' supply chain efficiencies. He has more than twenty-six years of experience in the consumer packaged goods industry, and is an expert in sales forecasting, market response modeling, econometrics, and supply chain management.

From the Back Cover

DEMAND-DRIVEN FORECASTING

To become demand-driven, your business needs to identify the right market signals, build demand-sensing capabilities, define demand-shaping processes, and effectively translate demand signals to create a more effective response. Doable? Now it is, with Demand-Driven Forecasting, Second Edition.

Distinctive for its attention to practical demand forecasting challenges, Demand-Driven Forecasting, Second Edition is completely updated with a detailed look at improving the forecasting process to better meet customer demands. Author and demand forecasting leader Charles Chase presents both comprehensive coverage of statistical methods as well as how to apply them in practice within a demand-driven forecasting process using actual data and examples.

Featuring new case studies and examples, Demand-Driven Forecasting, Second Edition includes the contributions of the latest theoretical developments, while presenting current empirical findings and technology advancements. The new edition features new coverage on demand-shifting, nonseasonal and seasonal ARIMA models, transfer functions, and cross-correlation function plots.

Plus, the Second Edition explores:

• Weighted combined modeling
• New product forecasting using structured judgment
• Application of additive and multiplicative Winters methods
• Using graphical methods and plots to understand statistical output
• The most recent developments in demand-driven forecasting

Essential reading for every professional responsible for forecasting and demand planning, Demand-Driven Forecasting, Second Edition provides you with proven processes, methodologies, and performance metrics you can apply immediately for significant improvement in forecast accuracy.

From the Inside Flap

DEMAND-DRIVEN FORECASTING

To become demand-driven, your business needs to identify the right market signals, build demand-sensing capabilities, define demand-shaping processes, and effectively translate demand signals to create a more effective response. Doable? Now it is, with Demand-Driven Forecasting, Second Edition.

Distinctive for its attention to practical demand forecasting challenges, Demand-Driven Forecasting, Second Edition is completely updated with a detailed look at improving the forecasting process to better meet customer demands. Author and demand forecasting leader Charles Chase presents both comprehensive coverage of statistical methods as well as how to apply them in practice within a demand-driven forecasting process using actual data and examples.

Featuring new case studies and examples, Demand-Driven Forecasting, Second Edition includes the contributions of the latest theoretical developments, while presenting current empirical findings and technology advancements. The new edition features new coverage on demand-shifting, nonseasonal and seasonal ARIMA models, transfer functions, and cross-correlation function plots.

Plus, the Second Edition explores:

• Weighted combined modeling
• New product forecasting using structured judgment
• Application of additive and multiplicative Winters methods
• Using graphical methods and plots to understand statistical output
• The most recent developments in demand-driven forecasting

Essential reading for every professional responsible for forecasting and demand planning, Demand-Driven Forecasting, Second Edition provides you with proven processes, methodologies, and performance metrics you can apply immediately for significant improvement in forecast accuracy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118669398
• ISBN 13: 9781118669396
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 384