Demand Forecasting for Inventory Control

Introduction.- Demand History.- Horizontal Forecasts.- Trend Forecasts.- Seasonal Forecasts.- Promotion Forecasts.- Multi SKU Forecasts.- Forecast Sensitivity.- Filtering Outliers.- Standard Normal and Truncated Normal Distributions.- Safety Stock.- Auxiliary Forecasts.

Nick T. Thomopoulos is professor emeritus at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is the author of nine books, including: Applied Forecasting Methods, Prentice Hall, Strategic Inventory Management and Planning, Hitchcock, Essentials of Monte Carlo Simulation, Springer, and Production, Inventory and the Supply Chain, Atlantic Publishers. He has over 100 publications and presentations to his credit, and for many years, he has consulted in a wide variety of industries in the United States, Europe and Asia. Nick received honors over the years, such as the Rist Prize from the Military Operations Research Society, the Distinguished ProfessorAward in Bangkok, Thailand from the IIT Asian Alumni Association, and the Professional Achievement Award from the IIT Alumni Association.