Complex sentence: Operations management textbooks usually cover also demand forecasting, even thought it is not strictly speaking an operations problem, because demand is related to some production systems variables, for example: a classic approach in dimensioning safety stocks requires calculating standard deviation of forecast errors.
Split into simpler sentences: Operations management textbooks usually cover demand forecasting, even thought it is not strictly speaking an operations problem, because demand is related to some production systems variables. For example, a classic approach in dimensioning safety stocks requires calculating standard deviation of forecast errors.