Statistical Forecasting

SCM Focus covers a variety of supply chain software areas. Demand planning has many opportunities which are never taken advantage of even the largest companies. This site covers both the reality of demand planning in companies and the opportunities to improve software usage.

If you have read a number of the articles on this site, you have probably recognized multiple forecast opportunities that you are not taking advantage of. Can you used attributes in your forecasting system? Does your best fit forecasting work consistently? Do you know what reasonable forecast accuracy expectations are for your products? I'm Shaun Snapp and I am the main author and editor at SCM Focus. I don't only write on forecasting software, but provide services as well. These services can improve your forecast accuracy more quickly, and with higher probability and at lower cost than a large impersonal consulting company. In fact as my book "Supply Chain Forecasting Software" describes, most of these firms do not even focus on the right things. Read More...

We offer a variety of fixed fee services which can improve you implementation. We also offer outsourced demand planning. See Our List of Services Here...

Interested in practical ways to improve the management of your supply chain planning software? The soon to be published SCM Focus Press books cover demand planning, supply planning and inventory optimization and multi echelon planning. Read More...

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