Extensible Portfolio of Forecasting Methods for ERP Systems: Integration Approach

Jānis Pekša

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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are large, modular enterprise applications designed for most of the company’s business processes. They include a range of different forecasting methods. The paper analyses the existing forecasting methods in ERP systems and provides a comparison of forecasting methods in ERP systems. It considers the problem of prediction integration in ERP systems and describes the general process by a conceptual model based on academic literature from forecasting with ERP systems. The study provides an integration approach, which is the most suitable one for providing forecasting functions in ERP systems.

Keywords:
ERP systems; forecasting; forecasting methods

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DOI: 10.7250/itms-2018-0010

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