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SmartForecasts' Intermittent Demand Forecasting to Set Accurate Inventory Levels Bedoukian Research, Inc., located in Danbury, Connecticut, is a specialized process manufacturer producing... that are hard to forecast. Bedoukian Research bought its first copy of SmartForecasts in 1987 and used it to forecast products with high volume demand. However, it wasn't until Smart... Software made available its intermittent demand forecasting capabilities that Bedoukian was able to achieve the level of forecasting accuracy it wanted in predicting its hard...

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