IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cai/reidbu/rei_139_0027.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Outils de prévision de la demande (OPD) et pratiques de réduction des stocks

Author

Listed:
  • Nicolas Houy
  • Thomas Houy

Abstract

Intuitively, we might think that a multiproducts company which has the possibility to forecast the structure of demand does not need to protect itself against risks of stock shortages due to the variability of the characteristics of demand since this becomes foreseeable. Symmetrically, it seems intuitive to think that a multi-products firm protected by stocks does not need to anticipate the structure of demand. On that basis, Demand Forecasting Tools and stockpiling would seem to be substitutable. This article calls into question this intuitive proposal since we demonstrate with the help of a heuristic model that stocks and demand forecasting tools can be complementary instruments for companies depending on the nature of demand.

Suggested Citation

  • Nicolas Houy & Thomas Houy, 2012. "Outils de prévision de la demande (OPD) et pratiques de réduction des stocks," Revue d'économie industrielle, De Boeck Université, vol. 0(3), pages 27-47.
    • Handle: RePEc:cai:reidbu:rei_139_0027
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.cairn.info/load_pdf.php?ID_ARTICLE=REI_139_0027
    Download Restriction: free
    File URL: http://www.cairn.info/revue-d-economie-industrielle-2012-3-page-27.htm
    Download Restriction: free
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cai:reidbu:rei_139_0027. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Jean-Baptiste de Vathaire (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cairn.info/revue-d-economie-industrielle.htm .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.