Business Forecasting

Index

A

• A - F
• accountability, lack of
• Accumulated Forecast to Actual Ratio (AFAR)
• accuracy
  • See also forecast accuracy (FA)
  • adjustments and
  • ignoring objectives of, as a step in setting performance objectives
  • measuring
  • testing for
  • unrealistic expectations with new product forecasting (NPF)
• Achuthan, L.
  • Beating the Business Cycle
• Actual value
  • for denominator
  • using forecasts instead of in denominators
  • using maximum of forecast and
• adjustments
  • accuracy and
  • in judgment
• Adoption Curve
• advanced forecasting methods
  • about
  • complexity in
  • example of
  • inadequate evidence
  • testing for accuracy
• AFAR (Accumulated Forecast to Actual Ratio)
• aggregate-error metrics
• aggregation
• AIC (Akaike Information Criterion)
• Aiken, M.
• Akaike Information Criterion (AIC)
• ambiguity, of percentage errors
• Amway
• analogy, forecasting by
• anticipation-based supply chain, transitioning to response-based supply chain from
• APE
• APES
• Applied Data Mining for Forecasting Using SAS¯ (Rey, Kordon, and Wells)
• ARIMA (autoregressive integrated moving average) modeling
• Armstrong, J. S.
  • Principles of Forecasting
• Armstrong and Kesten Green (website)
• “Assessing Uncertainty in New-Product Forecasts” (Guthrie and Markland)
• assortment planning
• asymmetry, of percentage errors
• Athanasopoulos, G.
  • Forecasting: Principles and Practice
• attributes
• autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models
• average absolute error metric
• Azadeh, A.
• Azevedo, A.

B

• B2B (business-to-business)
• B2C (business-to-consumer)
• BAMAE (bias-adjusted ...