The Study of Production Leadtime Forecasting Models.

Abstract

Production leadtime (PLT) has experienced great fluctuations over the last few years. This can have a great effect upon the Inventory System of the Air Force. Presently the Air Force uses a forecasting model which assumes that PLT in the next time period is equal to PLT in the last time period. In order to improve upon this method, this study investigated both the use of ARMA and Smoothing Models for the prediction of PLT. The ARMA Model was eliminated as an effective prediction model for PLT. This was because the average number of data points was well below the minimum needed to make good forecasts using ARMA. An investigation of various smoothing models suggests that a significant improvement in forecasting can be achieved by using these models instead of the present Air Force Model. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA091970

Entities

People

  • Michael J. Cleary

Organizations

  • Wright State University

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Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Facilities
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Contract Administration
  • Contracts
  • Delphi Method
  • Electron Tubes
  • Information Science
  • Inventory Control
  • Lead Time
  • Logistics
  • Organizational Structure
  • Procurement
  • Production
  • Production Engineering
  • Surveys
  • United States

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  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Statistical inference.