As supply chains for high technology products increase in complexity, and as the performance expectations of these supply chains also increase, forecasts of parts demands have become indispensable to effective operations management in these markets. Unfortunately, rapid technological change and...

Inventories of optional components in discrete manufacturing are often subject to so-called low-count demand patterns. Quantities demanded from such inventories in any given period are sufficiently small that it may be unrealistic to forecast them with conventional models based on the normal...