Comparison of Rice Price Forecasting Using the ARIMA Method on Amazon Forecast and Sagemaker

Abstract

Rice is one of the main commodities of trade in Indonesia. PT Food Station as the management company of Cipinang Rice Main Market every day publishes data on price, type of rice and the amount of rice that enters and exits Jakarta area. This study aims to forecast rice prices in the Jakarta area using data held by PT FoodStation during the 2016-2018 data period. Rice price prediction is carried out for the next 30 days using the Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) method on the Amazon Forecast and Amazon Sagemaker platforms. The ARIMA model is a form of regression analysis that measures the strength of one dependent variable that is relatively influential on other change variables. The ARIMA model is a special type of regression model in which the dependent variable is considered stationary and the independent variable is the lag or previous value of the dependent variable itself and the error lag. ARIMA is a combination of auto-regressive and moving average processes. The final result obtained in this experiment is that the ARIMA model on Amazon Sagemaker cloud computing is superior when compared to Amazon Forecast. From the experimental results obtained the results of Amazon Sagemaker RMSE (313.379941) are smaller than Amazon Forecast (322.4118029). So it can be concluded that the ARIMA model run at Amazon Sagemaker is more accurate than Amazon Forecast for forecasting the price of rice for 30 days at the Cipinang Rice Main Market