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Current Issue
June 2010

• Forecasting Webinar on Forecasting a Product Hierarchy
• Trends 30-Second Survey: New Product Forecasting
• Forecast Pro Tips & Tricks: Exception Reporting in Forecast Pro TRAC (part 2)
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Archived Issues
April 2010 ( 1.5 Mb PDF file)

• Forecasting 101: Why Track Forecast Accuracy?
• Educational Business Forecasting Seminar
• Forecast Pro Web-Based Training
• Forecast Pro Tips & Tricks: Exception Reporting in Forecast Pro TRAC (part 1)
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February 2010 ( 1.5 Mb PDF file)

• Free Webinar on Modeling the Impact of Events
• Trends 30-Second Survey Results: The Role of Statistical Forecasting
• Forecast Pro Tips & Tricks: Forecast Accuracy Measurement & Tracking in Forecast Pro TRAC
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December 2009 ( 1.6 Mb PDF file)

• Free Webinar on Tracking Forecast Accuracy
• Trends 30-Second Survey: The Role of Statistical Forecasting
• Benchmarking Forecast Accuracy
• Forecast Pro Tips & Tricks: Alternative Units of Measure in Forecast Pro TRAC
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October 2009 ( 1.3 Mb PDF file)

• Introducing Forecast Pro Unlimited Version 6
• Forecasting 101: Managing Forecasts by Exception
• Forecast Pro Tips & Tricks: Working with Alternative Hierarchies
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August 2009 ( 750 Kb PDF file)

• Special Limited-Time Forecast Pro TRAC Offers
• You Can Forecast New Products
• Forecast Accuracy: Trends 30-Second Survey
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June 2009 ( 900 Kb PDF file)

• Introducing Forecast Pro TRAC
• Special Limited-Time Forecast Pro TRAC Offers
• An Interview with Eric Stellwagen
• Sneak Peek: Forecast Pro Unlimited V6 to be Released
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March 2009 ( 2.3 Mb PDF file)

• Forecasting 101: The Anatomy of a Forecast
• Improving Judgmental Adjustments
• Forecast Pro Tips & Tricks: Flexible Data Hierarchies in Forecast Pro Unlimited V5
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January 2009 ( 1.4 Mb PDF file)

• Forecasting 101: Going Beyond Automatic Forecasting
• Forecast Accuracy: Trends 30-Second Survey Results
• Forecast Customer Lifetime Value
• Forecast Pro Tips & Tricks: Forecast Projects in Forecast Pro Unlimited and Forecast Pro Unlimited Collaborator
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November 2008 ( 1.4 Mb PDF file)

• Forecasting 101: Going Beyond Automatic Forecasting
• Forecast Reporting & Analysis: Trends 30-Second Survey Results
• Change Management: Key to Effective S&OP Implementation
• Forecast Pro Tips & Tricks: Using Weighting Transformations in Forecast Pro
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September 2008 ( 1.1 Mb PDF file)

• Forecasting 101: Going Beyond Automatic Forecasting
• Trends 30-Second Survey: Reporting & Analysis
• Overcoming Politics to Gain Acceptance of Your Forecasts
• Using Forecast Pro's Built-in Outlier Detection and Correction
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July 2008 ( 6.1 Mb PDF file)

• An Interview with Len Tashman and Holly Stanton
• Judgmental Adjustments to Statistical Forecasts: Best Practices
• You Can Forecast New Products
• Forecasting 101: The Forecasting Seminar Track
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May 2008 ( 1.4 Mb PDF file)

• Forecasting 101: How Low Can You Go?
• New Product Forecasting: Trends 30-Second Survey Results
• An Interview with Allan Lichtman: Forecasting the Presidential Election
• Custom Modeling in Forecast Pro Unlimited
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March 2008 ( 1.1 Mb PDF file)

• Forecasting 101: Exponential Smoothing Demystified Part III - How to Interpret the Results
• Trends 30-Second Survey: New Product Forecasting
• Forecasting and Futuring to See Over the Horizon
• Forecast Pro XE and Basic Version 5.1 Now Available
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January 2008 ( 1.5 Mb PDF file)

• Forecasting 101: Exponential Smoothing Demystified Part II - How to Select an Appropriate Model
• Forecast Review and Judgmental Adjustments: Trends 30-Second Survey Results
• Forecasting Demand for Service Parts
• FP Tips and Tricks: Making the Most of the Forecast Pro Unlimited Outputs and Reports
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November 2007 ( 2.25 Mb PDF file)

• Forecasting 101: Exponential Smoothing Demystified
• Trends 30-Second Survey: Forecast Review and Judgmental Adjustments
• Ask the Forecasting Experts
• FP Tips and Tricks: Flexible Data Hierarchies
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September 2007 ( 1.15 Mb PDF file)

• Forecasting 101: How to Forecast Data Containing Outliers
• Data and Forecasting: Trends 30-Second Survey Results
• How to Get Good Forecasts from Bad Data
• Oberto Sausage Finds the Right Recipe for Forecasting
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July 2007 ( 1.5 Mb PDF file)

• Forecast Pro Unlimited V5: Special Offers for Trends Readers
• Trends 30-Second Survey: Data
• Using Forecasting and S&OP to Achieve Competitive Advantage
• Forecast Pro Tips & Tricks: Expanded Tools for Judgmental Changes to Forecasts in Unlimited V5
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May 2007 ( 1.5 Mb PDF file)

• Introducing Forecast Pro Unlimited Version 5
• Excel and Forecasting: Trends 30-Second Survey Results
• Cultural Barriers to the Forecasting Improvement Process
• Forecast Pro Unlimited V5 - What's New
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March 2007 ( 1.3 Mb PDF file)

• Forecasting 101: When is a flat-line forecast appropriate?
• Trends 30-Second Survey: Excel and Forecasting
• Forecasting Summit Panel of Experts
• Forecast Pro Tips & Tricks: Using Weighting Transformations
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January 2007 ( 1.3 Mb PDF file)

• Forecasting 101: Dynamic Regression: What Is It and When Should I Use It?
• You Can Forecast New Products
• Forecast Accuracy: Trends 30-Second Survey Results
• Forecast Pro Tips & Tricks: Establishing a Collaborative Process Using Forecast Pro Unlimited and Forecast Pro Unlimited Collaborator
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November 2006 ( 1.4 Mb PDF file)

• Forecasting 101: Time Series Methods
• Ask the Forecasting Experts
• Trends 30-Second Survey: Forecast Accuracy
• Forecast Pro Tips & Tricks: The Completely Redesigned V5 Interface
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September 2006 ( 600k PDF file)

• Forecasting 101: Using Seasonal Simplification to Improve Forecasts
• Developing a New Forecasting Process in Sarasota County
• Integrating Consumer Demand Forecasts with Shipment Forecasts
• Forecast Pro Tips and Tricks: Using WYSIWYG to Customize Reports in Forecast Pro V5
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July 2006 ( 600k PDF file)

• Forecasting 101: Measuring Expected Forecast Accuracy via Out-of-Sample Testing
• Introducing Forecast Pro Version 5
• Relating Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) to Forecasting
• Managerial Judgment as an Input to the Statistical Forecasting Process
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May 2006 ( 1.5Mb PDF file)

• Forecasting 101: The MAPE, the MAD and the BIC
• Moving Beyond Excel for Improved Forecasting
• Judgmental Adjustments to Statistical Forecasts: Best Practices
• Forecast Pro Tips and Tricks
• Forecasting News: Foresight
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March 2006 ( 480k PDF file)

• Forecasting 101: The Anatomy of a Forecast
• Case Study: Brooks Sports
• In Search of "Forecastability"
• Forecast Pro Tips and Tricks
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