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Apparently the prolonged use of OxyContin will give you a pompous and surley demeanor, and make you say a lot of really ignorant things. So I implore you, dear readers, to withhold your use of such a substance, preserve your good attitude and brain cells, and participate in a research study at the Lancaster Centre for Forecasting.

Supply Chain Forecasting: Best Practices & Benchmarking study (call for participants)

Most of you are already familiar with the two directors of the LCF: Robert Fildes and Sven Crone.  Robert and Sven have made major contributions to the forecasting field, and Sven co-chaired last fall's Analytics2011 event in Orlando (that drew over 1000 attendees).

Matt Weller, a PhD student at the Centre, provided this about the study:

Lancaster Centre for Forecasting’s research is attracting considerable practitioner interest and is already providing some new insights in Supply Chain Forecasting practice under S&OP, VMI and CPFR. Additional participants with sound knowledge of forecasting in a specific organisation or business unit are sought for the web-based survey.  All completed respondents will receive a copy of the results.

Visit the study website or contact matt.weller@lancaster.ac.uk for additional information.

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Mike Gilliland

Product Marketing Manager

Michael Gilliland is a longtime business forecasting practitioner and formerly a Product Marketing Manager for SAS Forecasting. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Forecasters, and is Associate Editor of their practitioner journal Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting. Mike is author of The Business Forecasting Deal (Wiley, 2010) and former editor of the free e-book Forecasting with SAS: Special Collection (SAS Press, 2020). He is principal editor of Business Forecasting: Practical Problems and Solutions (Wiley, 2015) and Business Forecasting: The Emerging Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (Wiley, 2021). In 2017 Mike received the Institute of Business Forecasting's Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2021 his paper "FVA: A Reality Check on Forecasting Practices" was inducted into the Foresight Hall of Fame. Mike initiated The Business Forecasting Deal blog in 2009 to help expose the seamy underbelly of forecasting practice, and to provide practical solutions to its most vexing problems.

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