Value, with which the user can control how much a current value, which is used in the calculation, influences the result.

A high smoothing factor causes a change in the result, a lower one results in a lesser change.

A smoothing factor is used in the vendor evaluation, for example, to calculate the new individual scores that a vendor receives for the goods receipts in the overall score, valid until now, for being on time. Since the overall score that was valid until now is used for many goods receipts, the new goods receipt only represents an individual score, the new goods receipt will be calculated with a lower value in the overall score, that is, smoothed.