Abstract:This study aims to present an alternative technique of exponential smoothing to estimate the demand for items with intermittent and seasonal demand. The usual technique would aggregate demand periods (months in quarters, for instance) to calculate a seasonality factor for the set of periods. The estimate for the set would be divided by the number of periods comprising it to calculate the demand per period. This technique recalculates the basis and seasonality factor for each set, and provides equal estimates f… Show more
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