SAS High-performance Forecasting 9.1 User's Guide

In virtually all businesses, poor forecasts lead to ill-devised plans, which can result in the loss of business, customers, and market share, as well as an increase in costs. This title guides you through the SAS High-Performance Forecasting product, designed to help your business succeed by translating large amounts of transactional data into more accurate, automatic forecasts on a large scale. High-Performance Forecasting enables you to accumulate the transactional data into time series data, select the appropriate models and generates forecasts of the time series automatically, and perform trend and seasonal analysis on transactional data for millions of variables. You will learn to forecast intermittent time series (slow moving goods) and to address forecast aggregation hierarchies (by-groups). This guide documents the syntax of the High-Performance Forecasting product and demonstrates its use through examples. This title is also available online. This title is designed to help IT professionals and forecasting experts utilize the full analytical sophistication of SAS High-Performance Forecasting for large-scale forecasting projects.

Supports releases 9.1 and higher of SAS software.