The sugar manufacturing enterprises use traditional algorithm to forcast the raw sugar demand, which ignors the influence of time factors and the industry characteristics, resulting in low accuracy. To address this problem, combining with the periodic characteristics of the supply and demand of raw materials of refining sugar,a temporal feature-correlated raw sugar demand forecast model based on improved Elman Neural Network with Modified Cuckoo Search(MCS) optimization was proposed, namely TMCS-ENN. Firstly, an adaptive learning rate formula was proposed to optimize Elman Neural Network (ENN). Secondly, the adaptive parasitic failure probability and adaptive step-length control variable formula were introduced to obtain MCS algorithm to optimize the weight and threshold of ENN, which effectively improved the local search ability of the model and avoided local optimum. Finally, combining time correlation and hysteresis of raw material purchase of sugar manufacturing enterprise, the data slices were designed based on week granularity, and the ENN was trained with festivals and holidays as important features to obtain TMCS-ENN. Experimental results show that, with week as time granularity, the forecasting accuracy of the proposed TMCS-ENN forecasting model reaches 93. 89%. It can be seen that TMCS-ENN can meet the forecast accuracy demand of sugar manufacturing enterprises and effectively improve their production efficiency.