Our next guests are John Boylan, Professor and Director of Centre for Marketing Analytics and Forecasting (CMAF) at Lancaster University (UK), and Aris Syntetos, Professor of Operational Research and Operations Management at Cardiff University.

John and Aris have recently published a book titled “Intermittent Demand Forecasting: Context, Methods and Applications”, a book aimed at practitioners and early career researchers which summarises everything known about intermittent demand forecasting up to date. In this episode, we introduce this book and then talk about good practices for research and industry collaborations.

John recommends “Inventory and Production Management in Supply Chains” by E. Silver, D. Pyke, D. Thomas, and Aris talks about “Statistical forecasting for inventory control” and “Smoothing, Forecasting and Prediction of Discrete Time Series” by Robert Goodell Brown.