Editorial

摘要

Welcome to volume 9. Time passes so quickly and here we are in our ninth year. This is an interesting mixed feature issue for the start of the ninth volume because it encompasses novel and traditional methodologies, the perennial financial issues of cash flow, the resurgence of optimisation modelling, traditional contextual domain of banking and the surprising element of dealing with military supply chain (SC) measures. According to Sucky's literature research and conversations with apparel manufacturers' specialists, there is not any common analytic method for demand forecasting in apparel industry and to our knowledge, there is not adequate number of study in literature to forecast the demand with adaptive-network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) for apparel manufacturers. The purpose of this paper is constructing an effective demand forecasting system for apparel manufacturers. The ANFIS is used forecasting the demand for apparel manufacturers. The results of the Sucky's study showed that an ANFIS-based demand forecasting system can help apparel manufacturers to forecast demand accurately, effectively and simply.