Recent Advances in Business Analytics. Selected papers of the 2021 KNOWCON-NSAIS workshop on Business Analytics

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15439/2021B8

Citation: Recent Advances in Business Analytics. Selected papers of the 2021 KNOWCON-NSAIS workshop on Business Analytics, Jan Stoklasa, Pasi Luukka and Maria Ganzha (eds). ACSIS, Vol. 29, pages 1–6 (2021)

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Abstract. Direct material budgeting is an essential part of financial planning processes. It often implies the need to predict quantities and prices of hundreds of thousands of materials to be purchased by an enterprise in the upcoming fiscal period. Distortion effects in demand projections and overall uncertainty cause the enterprises to rely on internal data to build their forecasts.In this paper we are dealing with material demand forecasting and evaluate the feasibility of fuzzy time series forecasting models as compared to classical forecasting models. Relevant methods are shortlisted based on existing practice described in academic research. Three datasets from industry are used to evaluate the predictive performance of the shortlisted methods. Our findings show an improvement in prediction accuracy of up to 47\% compared to na\"{\i}ve approach. Fuzzy time series models are reported to be the most reliable forecasting method for the analyzed intermittent time series in all three datasets.

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