Business and Economic Forecasting Unit - Short Courses

The Business and Economic Forecasting Unit can be engaged to run short courses on forecasting. These courses are typically taught in-house and can be designed around the particular needs of a business and the prevailing skills and knowledge of its staff. The courses can also be linked to particular statistical and forecasting packages.

Examples

• Forecasting for Business and Industry
  This course has been run many times for a wide range of practitioners in diverse fields such as transport, energy, insurance, manufacturing and retail. The course covers various forecasting methods including exponential smoothing, Box-Jenkins ARIMA models, transfer function models and state space models. The course can be tailored to particular forecasting software packages.
• Forecasting Business-to-Business Demand
  A course for Containers Packaging covering methods suitable for situations where the demands for an individual product arise from a dominant customer.
• Forecasting for Inventory Control
  A course for Mazda Australia on the links between forecasting systems and inventory control systems.