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Cabot Microelectronics Reduces Forecast Error Rates
Wednesday, 25 November 2009

To increase its forecast accuracy and decrease planning cycle times, Cabot Microelectronics, a supplier of consumables to the semiconductor industry, implemented Oracle's Real Time Sales and Operations Planning solution.

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The Social Supply Chain, An Interview with Jeff Ashcroft
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
I have been following Jeff Ashcroft’s informative tweets and interacting with him for some time now even though we never actually met in person prior to last month.  It was at the IBF booth at the APICS annual conference last month when Jeff approached us unassumingly. As soon as I looked up and...

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The Social Supply Chain, An Interview with Jeff Ashcroft
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
I have been following Jeff Ashcroft’s informative tweets and interacting with him for some time now even though we never actually met in person prior to last month.  It was at the IBF booth at the APICS annual conference last month when Jeff...

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Instrumenting Your Enterprise for Maximum Predictive Power
Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Business is all about placing bets and knowing if the odds are in your favor. As noted in a recent Forrester report, business success depends on your company being able to visualize likely futures and take appropriate actions as soon as possible.

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Value Chain Planning for Consumer Electronics
Tuesday, 24 November 2009

From a supply chain planning perspective, few industries are as challenging as Consumer Electronics. Consumer Electronics products have very short life cycles, must be delivered to market on-time or ahead-of-schedule to make money, are subject to...

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A new favorite forecasting article (by Makridakis and Taleb)
Friday, 20 November 2009
I’m going to put “An Operational Definition of ‘Demand’ – Part 3” on hold for a moment, to announce a new favorite article on forecasting, “Living in a world of low levels of predictability,” by Spyros Makridakis and Nassim Taleb (International Journal of Forecasting 25 (2009)...

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A new favorite forecasting article (by Makridakis and Taleb)
Friday, 20 November 2009
I’m going to put “An Operational Definition of ‘Demand’ – Part 3” on hold for a moment, to announce a new favorite article on forecasting, “Living in a world of low levels of predictability,” by Spyros Makridakis and Nassim Taleb...

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Forecasting papers 2009-11-20
Friday, 20 November 2009

In this issue we have: On economic evaluation of directional forecasts, Predicting unemployment in short samples with internet job search query data, Does Accounting for Spatial Effects Help Forecasting the Growth of Chinese Provinces? Nonlinearity, Nonstationarity, and Spurious Forecasts, Forecasting Inflation Using Dynamic Model Averaging, and more.

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Biographic model predicts Obama would win against Palin in 2012
Thursday, 19 November 2009

Palin’s book won’t do it: a new forecasting model that analyzed their biographies predicts that she has little chance to defeat President Obama in a potential 2012 show-down. Wharton Professor J. Scott Armstrong and Dr. Andreas Graefe, researcher at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, developed a model to predict the winner of U.S. Presidential Elections based on candidates’ biographies.

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Demand Planning & Forecasting in Mexico City: A Snapshot of IBF’s Experience
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
I recently returned from Mexico City from our Spanish based Supply Chain Forecasting & Planning Conference: Latin American Experiences, produced together with Corporate Resources Management – Mexico City and IBF – New York USA. As the IBF continues to deliver more International...

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