Spare Parts Demand Forecasting:A Review on Uncertainty Problems
It is difficult to describe the complex relationship between spare parts consumption and influencing factors accurately in the prediction process.The resons are listed as the randomness,diversity,time-varying and insufficient information of spare parts de-mand.The theories has been developed rapidly when dealing with uncertainty based on the Intelligent computing and tools.It was summa-rized about relevant literature on handling the uncertainty of spare parts demand prediction,according to the four categories of uncertain-ty,namely,randomness,fuzziness,incompleteness and compound uncertainty.It was summarized about the limitations and development direction of relevant research.The research results can be used to serve as references for equipment spare parts management.