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PARC Institute of Manufacturing, Logistics and Inventory

Past events 2015-17

Details of past events 2015/17 for PARC Institute of Manufacturing, Logistics and Inventory.

2017 Foresight Practitioner Conference

15-16 November 2017, Raleigh, North Carolina

Professor Aris Syntetos gave a keynote speech at the 2017 Foresight Practitioner Conference, hosted at the North Carolina State University Institute for Advanced Analytics. This year's conference focused on Recoupling Forecasting with Inventory Control and Supply Planning.

Predictive Business Analytics at Panalpina: Workshop and training

12-14 June 2017, Cardiff Business School Postgraduate Teaching Centre, Cardiff

The Panalpina Research Centre hosted this workshop and training with the aim of identifying where analytics can help the Panalpina business, to provide training in forecasting methods and tools, to apply learning on identified business opportunities and to connect with Cardiff University staff.

For more information, read the agenda.

EURO 2015 conference

12-15 July 2015, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Nicole Ayiomamitou, Professor Aris Syntetos, and Andrew Lahy gave the following joint talk on product life cycle forecasting at the 27th European Conference on Operational Research:

The rapid evolution of technology coupled with an increased market focus on innovative and complex solutions has resulted in a very fast pace of introducing new products that are associated with very short lifecycles. In addition, in certain industries, like the fashion industry for example, such products constitute the norm. Forecasting demand requirements for products with short life cycles and managing the relevant inventories is known to be a particularly difficult task. Mapping the inventory requirements across the product life cycle and being able to describe the transit stages offers the ability to react fast into market changes.

In this work, focus was given on forecasting demand in the fashion industry. Real data coming from a case organisation is utilised to assess the empirical validity and utility of the proposed solutions and interesting insights are offered to practitioners working in this area. This work is part of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) conducted in the UK and funded by Innovate UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).