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This listing covers a few of the most useful resources for publicly available
information that can help you in developing improved market and sales forecasts
and in assessing industries and competition for new product planning for your organization.
You can readily begin sales forecast experimentation with correlation of
some of these variables with your own sales data using Excel's Data Analysis
spread sheet tools. The industry and competitive company data will help broaden
your though process about industry opportunities.
Whenever you look that closely at your business you will
learn something new. When the analytic process intrigues you, and you need our
experience and assistance, give us a call at 914-962-5795 or
email.
New Product Development Resources
- Demographic Data
- Industry and Company Data
- Current Industrial Reports
- This data, compiled by the Census Bureau, can be used for market analysis
and forecasting.
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EDGAR
- The EDGAR database covers all SEC filings and forms for all public companies
Forecasting Resources
- Economic Data Sources
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FRED II
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The new version of Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED®) — a database of
over 800 U.S. economic time series. With FRED II you can download data
in Microsoft Excel and text formats and view charts of data series. The
single best source for your independent economic variables.
- Foreign Exchange
Data Base - This database from Pacific Exchange Rate
Service will be more up to date than the Federal Reserve Data
- SBA Data
-Contains
reports & data from the SBA (Small Business Administration. This is a good
source for arrange of firm size data by industry & location to help you
understand the macro characteristics of your customer base.
- Economagic - This
provides a wealth of time series data in easy cut and paste formats. It
provides lots of hard to find industry specific data. If you want their
forecasts also, you will have to subscribe.
- Statistical References
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X-12-ARIMA Seasonal Adjustment
Program - This is the Census Bureau's new seasonal
adjustment program. It provides enhancements to X-11 with improved seasonal,
trading day, and holiday effect adjustment capabilities. After using X-11
for over 30 years, through several generations of computer development, it
almost seems like sacrilege to add a new version number, but here it is for
downloading. Good seasonal decomposition work is always a critical first
step in almost any forecast.
Suppliers For Forecasting Services
- Demand Planning :Our focus is forecasting to support long
term business planning, marketing decisions and new product planning. There
has been considerable attention to the forecasting needs for logistics
planning in the last several years, in many cases for integration with a
supply chain mangement system such as SAP, Manugistics, JD Edwards (Oracle)
or several smaller companies.
- Demand Planning,
LLC - provides specialized consulting and
education in the areas of Demand Management, Sales & Operations Planning
(S&OP), and Supply Chain Analytics
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