4 Reasons Why Your Demand Forecasting Should Use Deep Learning
Even if you read data analytics news only occasionally, I’m pretty sure you’ve come across something called ‘deep learning,’ but how does it benefit demand fore... Read More...
5 Ways To Win Executive Support For Predictive Analytics
Even though you know why predictive analytics is important to your organization, others may not. Some people in your company don’t understand it yet. That’s OK.... Read More...
How Can I Aggregate Demand & Maintain Visibility At Customer Level?
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Dear Dr. Jain, We are currently working on improving our forecast accuracy. One of the ideas is to create an 'all other' group for the smaller cust... Read More...
7 Characteristics Of Demand Planning Rock Stars
In demand planning we often talk about those unicorns who are analytically minded and yet can still deal with ambiguity and relate to people. They are rare crea... Read More...
Why AI Is Key To Customer Loyalty and Brand Engagement
Using AI to gain a competitive advantage over the next few years is not about better forecasts. What is often missed about predictive analytics is the power to ... Read More...
What Is Predictive Analytics?
As a discipline, predictive analytics has been around for many decades and has been a hot topic in academia for many years. Its application in the field of dema... Read More...
Why Your Demand Planning Sucks & What To Do About It
So you set up an S&OP process and started doing demand planning. But your forecast accuracy isn't improving and your service levels are still low. Y... Read More...
10 Real Life Predictive Business Analytics Examples
Predictive analytics can help us estimate how many units we will sell of the product, but that’s not the only thing predictive analytics tells us about. Busines... Read More...
The new, special issue of the Journal of Business Forecasting & Planning is available for download now. This is a particularly interesting issue of the j... Read More...
Beware The Correlation/Causation Forecasting Trap
“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson It would be easy to see the demise of Sears R... Read More...