ABSTRACT
In relation to its direct and indirect environment (market, customers, suppliers...), the forecast is today a key element of logistics information systems and has a major impact on the performance of a company. The current techniques of industrial production and logistics control (JIT,
pull systems flows, VMI, S & OP, etc.), and the associated integrated data-processing modules (ERP, CRM, APS, DP, DRP, etc.) are based, to a large extent (Figure 4.1), on results provided by short (1 to 3 months: production planning) and midrange forecasting analysis (12 to 24 months: strategy, general planning, sourcing policy, global tender, etc.).
