Lancaster University Management School Working Paper 2006/026 Understanding the use of forecasting software: an interpretive study in a supply-chain company Paul Goodwin, Win Yee Lee, Robert Fildes, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos and Michael Lawrence The Department of Management Science Lancaster University Management School Lancaster LA1 4YX UK © Paul Goodwin, Win Yee Lee, Robert Fildes, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos and Michael Lawrence All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission, provided that full acknowledgement is given. The LUMS Working Papers series can be accessed at http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/publications/ LUMS home page: http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/