On the effectiveness of top-down strategy for forecasting autoregressive demands

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 176-188

  Widiarta, Handik ^a   Viswanathan, S ^a   Piplani, Rajesh ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Autoregressive time series; Bottom up forecasting; Demand forecasting; Exponential smoothing; Top down forecasting

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; DATA REDUCTION; FORECASTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AUTOREGRESSIVE TIME SERIES; BOTTOM UP FORECASTING; DEMAND FORECASTING; EXPONENTIAL SMOOTHING; TOP DOWN FORECASTING;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33847706887     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: 15206750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20200     Document Type: Article

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