A literature review on approaches that relate the production costs and demand forecasting

Abstract

This paper presents a literature review on approaches that relate the production costs and demand forecasting. The review comprises papers published from 2002 to 2013 in 19 international journals. The papers were obtained from Web of Science and Scopus data bases. The main objective was to conduct a classification and an analysis of the published papers according to 7 identified approaches. As main contributions, this article presents a revision about approaches that relate the concepts of production costs and demand forecast. In addition, the article shows the discussions on the subject, identifying suggestions for future researches on approaches like Operations Planning and Capacity Planning.

Keywords

• Custos de produção. Previsão de demanda. Produção. Planejamento de capacidade.