Re: forecasting

eh, that's only a year's data....have you looked at multi years and
perhaps time series?

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 MisterBPCS@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Hey gang,
> I have a client trying to use forecasting and the computations look
> reasonable but when looking at the trend (which should be going down) are 
> going up. The
> illustrations are:
>
> Period     Start Date     End Date       Demand
>   12        12/01/03      12/31/03          71.00
>   11        11/01/03      11/30/03         208.00
>   10        10/01/03      10/31/03          58.00
>    9         9/01/03       9/30/03         303.00
>    8         8/01/03       8/31/03          73.00
>    7         7/01/03       7/31/03         162.00
>    6         6/01/03       6/30/03         394.00
>    5         5/01/03       5/31/03          96.00
>    4         4/01/03       4/30/03         471.00
>    3         3/01/03       3/31/03         192.00
>    2         2/01/03       2/28/03         188.00
>    1         1/01/03       1/31/03         264.00
>   12        12/01/02      12/31/02
>
> And
>
>
>
>
> Any one have any suggestions as to why the issue?
> Thanks,
> Ric Weide
> rcweide@xxxxxxx
> or
> MisterBPCS@xxxxxxx
>