Eight live sessions over four weeks, every Tuesday and Thursday from 3pm to 5pm UK time, starting 3 November. Nikos Kourentzes and I will deliver it together.

The course is built around one idea: you cannot defend a forecast you do not understand. So we teach how the models actually work, starting from the time series components, moving to simple methods, exponential smoothing, the ETS framework, intermittent demand, forecast evaluation, judgemental adjustments, and finishing with combinations. We focus on the understanding instead of how to call specific function, so that you can use that knowledge in any support system you work with (SAP, SAS, Excel etc). Workshops between sessions come in both R and Python, and we review them together at the start of the next session.

The training is for demand planners, forecasting analysts, data scientists moving into demand forecasting, and supply chain professionals who need forecasts they can trust and challenge. No prior forecasting or statistics knowledge is assumed.

£750 per person, £600 each for two or more, £500 for students.

Details and booking can be found here.

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