Business Analytics and Forecasting

Turning data into business decisions: descriptive analytics, forecasting methods, regression, optimization and simulation, with spreadsheet and code examples.

SCM-230 Year 2 3 credits 12 lessons planned ▶ Video lessons coming soon

Offered by HSM University · Supply Chain Management

Course content

  1. 1Analytics for business decisionsComing
  2. 2Cleaning and exploring dataComing
  3. 3Visualizing business dataComing
  4. 4Forecasting with moving averages and smoothingComing
  5. 5Trend and seasonalityComing
  6. 6Regression for forecastingComing
  7. 7Measuring forecast errorComing
  8. 8Linear programmingComing
  9. 9Transportation and assignment modelsComing
  10. 10Simulation for decisions under uncertaintyComing
  11. 11Dashboards and communicating resultsComing
  12. 12Case study: a sales and operations forecastComing

Requirements

Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.

Description

Turning data into business decisions: descriptive analytics, forecasting methods, regression, optimization and simulation, with spreadsheet and code examples.

Part of the Business stream, typically taken in year 2.