Forecasting Demand with Support Vector Regression Technique Combined with X13-ARIMA-SEATS Method in the Presence of Calendar Effect

Malek Sarhani and Abdellatif El Afia
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Malek Sarhani: ENSIAS, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco
Abdellatif El Afia: ENSIAS, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco

International Journal of Applied Logistics (IJAL), 2014, vol. 5, issue 2, 74-86

Abstract: In order to better manage and optimize supply chain, a reliable prediction of future demand is needed. The difficulty of forecasting demand is due mainly to the fact that heterogeneous factors may affect it. Analyzing such kind of data by using classical time series forecasting methods, will fail to capture such dependency of factors. This paper is released to present a forecasting approach of two stages which combines the recent methods X13-ARIMA-SEATS and Support Vector Regression (SVR). The aim of the first one is to remove the calendar effect, while the purpose of the second one is to forecast the demand after the removal of this effect. This approach is applied to three different case studies and compared to the forecasting method based on SVR alone.

Date: 2014
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