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Forecasting
McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Agenda
Forecast information
Uses for forecast information
Forecasting techniques
Forecast evaluation
Linkage of planning and forecasting
3-2
What is Forecasting?
o Process of predicting a
future event
o Underlying basis of
all business decisions
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Sales will be
$200
Million!
Marketing
Production
Inventory
Personnel
Facilities
3-3
Trend component
Actual
demand line
Average
demand
Random
variation
Year
1
Year
2
Year
3
Year
4
3-4
4.
5.
6.
7.
3-6
3-7
A Guide to Selecting an
Appropriate Forecasting Method
3-8
Short-term Forecasting
Forecasting Methods
Moving
Average
Weighted Moving Average
Simple Exponential Smoothing
Exponential Smoothing with Trend
3-10
3-11
Short-Term Forecasting
Techniques
3-12
ActualDemand
i t n 1
Ft 1
i period number
t current period for which demand is known
n - number of periods in moving average (smaller n makes forecast more
responsive to recent values
F33 = 1,433
3-13
3-14
6-Week MAF
is more
stable.
3-15
3-Week MAF
is more
responsive.
3-16
WMAF =
Wi At
Wi
3-17
Weight
2
4
3 x
5 x
7 x
.2 = 0.6
.3 = 1.5
.5 = 3.5
3-18
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
50 52 48 50 49 46 48 44
At-1= 110
t-1
t+1
time
3-20
Ft
3-21
Prior Period
(1 - )
(1 - )2
= 0.10
.10
.09
.081
= 0.90
.90
.09
.009
3-22
Time Actual
Forecast, Ft
( = .10)
2007
180
2008
168
175.00 (Given)
175.00 + .10(180 - 175.00) = 175.50
2009
159
2010
175
2011
190
2012
NA
=.1
=.5
3-25
3-26
3-27
At-1= 130
Ft = 109
Trend Error = Ft - FITt-1= 9
FITt-1= 100
t-1
time
3-28
3-29
At
Ft
Tt
FITt
12
11
17
11.2
2.08
13.28
20
14.024
2.3776
16.4
19
FITt = Ft + Tt
24
=.3
=.4
3-31
3-32
= .8:
3-34
3-35
Forecast Error
At
1
2
3
4
5
6
120
130
110
140
110
130
Ft
At Ft
125
125
125
125
125
125
-5
5
-15
15
-15
5
RSFE
-5
0
-15
0
-15
-10
3-37
(At Ft)2
25
25
225
225
225
25
750
MAD = 60/6 = 10
MAPE = 60/740 = .081 = 8.1%
MSE = 750/6 = 125
3-38
Tracking Signal
3-40
Forecast Actual
Demand Demand |Error|
78
71
75
80
83
101
84
84
88
60
85
73
RSFE
Tracking Signal =
MAD
RSFE
Tracking
MAD Signal
=
3-41
Forecast
Model
Human
Input
Managerial
Judgment
Statistical
Forecast
Demand
Forecast
Performance Feedback
Actual
Demand
Calculation of
Forecast Error
and Error
Updating
3-43
3-44
Homework
3-45