Experts' adjustment to model-based SKU-level forecasts: Does the forecast horizon matter

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 537-543

  Franses, P H ^a   Legerstee, R ^a  

^a Erasmus University Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

expert forecasts; forecast accuracy; model based forecasts; multi step ahead forecasts

Indexed keywords

DETERIORATION; MANAGERS; SALES;

CONDITIONAL MEANS; DOMAIN-SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE; EXPERT FORECASTS; FORECAST ACCURACY; MODEL-BASED OPC; MULTI-STEP; SALES FORECASTS; STATISTICAL MODELING;

FORECASTING;

EID: 79951612698     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jors.2010.87     Document Type: Article

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