| Title: | Europe-Swas-Artificial-Intelligence |
| Moderator: | HERON::BUCHANAN |
| Created: | Fri Jun 03 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Aug 04 1994 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 442 |
| Total number of notes: | 1429 |
I have two (different) customers interested in applying
AI techniques to SALES FORECAST domain. As usual their
first request has been on references (AI and not-AI
similar projects going on in the world) ......
I'll meet them next week - but up to now don't get any
significant result in my search.
Can anybody help me?
.... Any hints will be strongly appreciated!
Ciao,
Antonella
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| 75.1 | A pointer | HERON::ROACH | TANSTAAFL ! | Tue Jan 31 1989 18:56 | 7 |
One of the example Aise demo's shown at the last AI Forum was a
forcasting system for VT220 shipments from one of our manufacturing
plants. Not sure, but I think that there are some parallel's between
the # of Vt220's we sell and the # we ship! Why not drop George
McGregor a line for further details?
Pat
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| 75.2 | ai in stats relevant? | MUNSBE::BRITTAIN | Peter, EDU Munich @UFH *773-2069 | Wed Feb 01 1989 09:56 | 9 |
Antonella,
Is there any overlap between sales forecasting and market
research ? I have had no luck with reference SYSTEMS there either,
but see notes 69.* for AI in statistics.
ciao,
Pete.
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| 75.3 | YIPPEE::BOYLE | Thu Feb 02 1989 11:04 | 4 | ||
The forecasting application referred to in .1 was written by Emmanuel
Brandt, in EAITC. You should call him for details (828-5595)
Frank.
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| 75.4 | MOC | HERON::BUCHANAN | Andrew @vbo/dtn8285805/ARES,HERON | Thu Feb 09 1989 16:59 | 18 |
One of the facets of MOC (the Manufacturing Operating Consultant) is to translate from raw dollars sales forecasts (the "Red Book") into "Top 80" Demand estimates for a hundred or so individual line items. The idea is that the dollars estimates come in from the field, and are comined with historical sales information to determine what the likely demand is for which CPUS, peripherals etc. The current demo, which is set in the sanitized domain of biscuit manufacture, slightly obscures this process, because any one biscuit type always has the same ingredients, whereas the Digital world does not contain a finite set of fixed configurations, each with a fixed set of ingredients. The spiel is that the "redbook process" used to take 3 weeks to perform (there's a lot of clerical mucking about involved: I know, I studied this area in a previous incarnation) and that now it takes 3 minutes. So this is a really relevant application. Andrew. | |||||