CMAF FFT: Intermittent Demand Forecasting

This is the fifth webinar in the 3 Season of "Friday Forecasting Talks", hosted by Centre for Marketing Analytics and Forecasting of Lancaster University, UK. Follow us on LinkedIn:   / cmaf   on Twitter:   / lancastercmaf   CMAF webinars: https://cmaf-fft.lp151.com/ Video mentioned in the webinar:    • Intermittent Demand Forecasting: Would you...   Content of this video 00:00 - Introduction 07:17 - Inventory perspective to intermittent demand 27:00 - Order-Up-To Level policy 17:05 - Inventory performance evaluation 20:40 - Distributions for intermittent demand 26:25 - Forecasting mean and variance of demand 31:10 - Accuracy measures 34:10 - Intermittent demand classification 36:50 - Non-parametric approaches 38:40 - Q&A The abstract: In this webinar, John and Aris will talk about their book, “Intermittent Demand Forecasting. Context, Methods and Applications”. They will explain why the topic of the book is important in business and how some typical inventory – forecasting problems can be solved using state of the art robust approaches. Speaker 1: John Boylan Bio: John is Professor of Business Analytics at Lancaster University. His research interests are focused on supply-chain forecasting and include intermittence, seasonality and information sharing. He is an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Operational Research Society and President of the International Society for Inventory Research. Speaker 2: Aris Syntetos Bio: Aris is Professor of Operational Research at Cardiff University, where he researches forecasting for improving inventory, manufacturing, and supply chain decisions. He holds the DSV Chair of Logistics and Manufacturing, and he is the Editor-in-Chief of the IMA Journal of Management Mathematics.