Forecasting item-level demands : an analytical evaluation of top-down versus bottom-up forecasting in a production-planning framework
We compare the performance of top–down (TD) and bottom–up (BU) strategies for forecasting the demand of an item that belongs to a product family. The TD strategy forecasts the sum of the item demands and distributes it to the individual item based upon the historical demand proportion of each item i...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100772 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18193 |