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Application of artificial intelligence to optimize forecasting capability in procurement

  • The aim of this paper is to show to what extent Artificial Intelligence can be used to optimize forecasting capability in procurement as well as to compare AI with traditional statistic methods. At the same time this article presents the status quo of the research project ANIMATE. The project applies Artificial Intelligence to forecast customer orders in medium-sized companies. Precise forecasts are essential for companies. For planning, decision making and controlling. Forecasts are applied, e.g. in the areas of supply chain, production or purchasing. Medium-sized companies have major challenges in using suitable methods to improve their forecasting ability. Companies often use proven methods such as classical statistics as the ARIMA algorithm. However, simple statistics often fail while applied for complex non-linear predictions. Initial results show that even a simple MLP ANN produces better results than traditional statistic methods. Furthermore, a baseline (Implicit Sales Expectation) of the company was used to compare the performance. This comparison also shows that the proposed AI method is superior. Until the developed method becomes part of corporate practice, it must be further optimized. The model has difficulties with strong declines, for example due to holidays. The authors are certain that the model can be further improved. For example, through more advanced methods, such as a FilterNet, but also through more data, such as external data on holiday periods.

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Author of HS ReutlingenKiefer, Daniel; Ulmer, Annette
Editor of HS ReutlingenKloos, Uwe; Martínez Madrid, Natividad; Tullius, Gabriela
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-38706
DOI:https://doi.org/10.34645/opus-3870
ISBN:978-3-00-064236-4
Erschienen in:Wissenschaftliche Vertiefungskonferenz : Informatik-Konferenz an der Hochschule Reutlingen, 27. November 2019
Publisher:Hochschule Reutlingen
Place of publication:Reutlingen
Editor:Uwe KloosORCiD, Natividad Martínez MadridORCiD, Gabriela TulliusORCiD
Document Type:Conference proceeding
Language:English
Publication year:2019
Tag:Artificial Intelligence; artificial neural network; deep learning; forecasting; machine learning; time series prediction
Page Number:12
First Page:69
Last Page:80
DDC classes:004 Informatik
Open access?:Ja
Licence (German):License Logo  Open Access