Case study – forecasting demand for a logistics company

Let's imagine that we need to choose a time series forecasting framework for our project. Our team works primarily in Python and has to provide a tool that will provide forecasts for time series data. The main goal of this system is to forecast demand on a set of given products that are shipped by the company. The team has discovered that there are many different forecasting frameworks.

To choose between these products, the team has created the following comparison criteria:

ID

Requirement definition

Substantiation

Score

Priority

Ease of development

D1

Compatible with Python

Python is the major programming language for the team.

3

Mandatory

D2

Compatible ...

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