At all times, looking into the future and knowing what is happening has
been a dream of mankind. As a symbol for this attempt the Oracle of
Delphi is the best proof and until today the Delphi-Method is an
important decision support tool. Despite of all methods and procedures
to make forecasting a high level of responsibility, seriousness and
professionalism of all the involved people is an absolute necessity.
Today, unfortunately we often have the situation where those who are
putting society at risk are "no true statisticians", merely people using
statistics either without understanding them or in a self-serving
manner. This is not a joke, this is criminal! In the present
contribution, the 16th volume of the publication series "Economy and
Labour" with the title "Forecasting: A Challenge for True
Statisticians", a scientific, well proofed method of mathematical
statistics for Time Series Analysis and Forecasting is presented. It is
one of the mathematically oriented methods and procedures of
Customer-oriented-Holistic-Netted-Logistics CHNL described in this
publication series. In the present volume an important forecasting tool
is described and its power is impressively shown by case studies using
the SCA-Software system.