Business Intellegence / Forecasting

[Walter Vaughan]

FilePro is excellent with nice precise math. On the other hand, has 
anyone done anything that is more fuzzy in nature, i.e. predicting the 
future?

Most businesses are cyclical, many on a yearly basis.

Just to pick on someone, like Hallak Cleaners or Nexus Plastics, do you 
have any projections that give you an expected requirements report for 
men, machine, and material in January 2005? Something that tracks 
changes in your requirements and shows you what you are going to need?

Reporting on what happened last week, or linear trending is not what I 
am looking for.

Anyone have any recommended textbooks or websites that have actual code 
examples (rather than theory) that could be converted into filePro?

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Walter