10. BUSINESS ELEMENT FORECASTING › 10.6 Case Study

10.6 Case Study

The Case Studies Section provides a case study using Business
Element Forecasting, the control parameters used to conduct
the analysis, and the resulting analysis reports.  The
development and maintenance of business element history files
and forecast files is discussed in detail in Chapter 3.
However, we will discuss the creation of the particular
business element database files that we used in the case
study analyses in some detail to help you better understand
the overall process of Business Element Forecasting.

The following topics are addressed by section:

 1 - Problem Description
 2 - Creating a Business Element File
 3 - Developing a Business Element Model
 4 - Analyzing a Business Element Model
 5 - Automating the Collection of Business Element Data