Computing Forecast Error: Should I divide by forecast or demand?

Nicolas Vandeput
3 min readFeb 8, 2022

I often get the following question from my clients and trainees:

To express the forecast error as a percentage, should we divide the forecast error by the demand or the forecast?

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Nicolas Vandeput

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