Longer-term thinking may be necessary here to match the process to the demand, and certainly better forecasting of demand is needed.
Among the principal challenges to procurement that UNICEF faces is inaccurate forecasting of vaccine needs, especially in low-income countries where planning is rudimentary and health delivery systems are under significant stress.
The industry is forecast to need several million acres of farmland within four years.
Other country-specific forecasts of the need for nursing personnel generally take into account demand as well as supply factors based on historically established staffing levels, resources and estimates of demand for health services.
He said the VA needed better forecasting of the demand for its services and promised to improve the department's information technology, including its archaic scheduling system.
Insights into these long-term trends regarding the GP workforce in the Netherlands can contribute to our understanding of preferred careers of male and female GPs, and can help to better forecast the balance of need and supply of GPs in the future for other countries too.
When economic forecasts dictate that levels of need will rise, UNRWA's emergency work with the increasingly needy will likely be cut back.
One of the principal methods of forecasting the financial needs of a business is the cash budget, which predicts the combined effects of planned operations on the firm's cash flow.
Of course, a lot of forecasts would need to be correct for the FT's analysis – and potentially what will be the OBR's analysis later this month – to come true.
Mr. Duke said that the company was "disappointed in our expense control in International"; Mr. Holley explained that Walmart International lacks many of the tools the domestic business does in terms of forecasting when employees need to be in stores or when customer traffic will spike.
For that kind of long-term forecasting, we need to understand the reasons for the recent, violent price cycle, and whether it is likely to repeat itself.
