Inventors:
William Paul Perry - Marietta GA, US
Jeffrey Scott Miller - Fairfax Station VA, US
Robert Edward Ferriola - Chesterbrook PA, US
James Hendry Hoover - Mechanicsburg PA, US
Brigid McHugh Weisbecker - Alpharetta GA, US
Assignee:
ACCENTURE GLOBAL SERVICES LIMITED - Dublin
International Classification:
G06Q 10/06, G06Q 10/04, G06Q 10/08
Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting a forecastability strategy from among a group of forecastability strategies based on business outcomes. A group of predefined forecastability strategies is received along with historical supply chain management data. Each forecastability strategy represents a set of rules by which to determine whether each item of a plurality of items within a supply chain management system is to be managed using statistical forecasting. The historical supply chain management data represents past events in a supply chain associated with at least two items selected from the plurality of items within the supply chain management system. Each of the forecastability strategies is applied to the historical data in order to generate business outcomes for each of the forecastability strategies. A forecastability strategy is selected based on the business outcomes and implemented to manage each of the items within the supply chain management system.