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Sales forecasting for a centralized meat cutting facility
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Sales forecasting for a centralized meat cutting facility
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An Analysis of Sales Forecasting Policies, Procedures, and Techniques
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An adaptive agent architecture for exogenous data sales forecasting
In a world of unpredictability and complexity, sales forecasting is becoming recognised as essential to operations planning in business and industry. With increased globalisation and higher competition, more products are being developed at more locations, but with shorter product lifecycles. As …
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The development of an integrated sales forecasting and production planning system for the brewing industry
… In order to facilitate productivity improvement, sales and production requirements need to be ascertained. The objective of this thesis is to design personal computer- based sales forecasting planning system that will aid a brewery productivity and minimise costs, through an integrated and …
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Three papers on inverse optimization algorithms, PEV sales forecasting, and PEVs' potential impact on power systems
… two interactive models to jointly forecast PEV sales and the diurnal recharging load curve in the U.S. between 2012 and 2020. A case study is conducted for the Midwest ISO region. Compared to the sales forecasts from the literature, our results turn out to be less optimistic. Our recharging load …
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An Investigation of the Sales Forecasting Technique Selection Process Using An Application of Zero-One Goal Programming
… purpose of this study is to investigate the sales forecasting technique selection process. Two primary objectives follow from this purpose. The first was to propose and demonstrate a methodology (zero-one goal programming) to help preparers and users select the right sales forecasting …
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An Exploatory Investigation of the Sales Forecasting Process in the Casual Theme and Family Dining Segments of Commercial Restaurant Corporations
Sales forecasting is an essential tool for the planning function of corporate restaurant management. Accurate sales forecasts allow functional areas, such as marketing, advertising, human resources, and finance, to effectively develop programs to advance the company. Examples of these programs …
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Improving automotive battery sales forecast
Improvement in sales forecasting allows firms not only to respond quickly to customers' needs but also to reduce inventory costs, ultimately increasing their profits. Sales forecasts have been studied extensively to improve their accuracy in many different fields. However, for automotive batteries, …
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Towards an automatic predictive question formulation
… problems automatically for the Walmart Store Sales Forecasting dataset found on Kaggle[16], and built models that attempted to solve them, for which we produced 235 AUC scores. The web application also allowed us to collect 157 ratings from humans on the meaningfulness of randomly-generated …
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Case analysis studies of diffusion models on E-commerce transaction data
… innovation. However, successful online sales forecasting arising from historical transaction data still proves elusive for many online retailers. Although there are numerous software and statistical models used in online retail, not many practitioners claim success creating accurate …
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Clearance pricing optimization at Zara
… deals with the management of its clearance sales where the remaining inventory at the end of its sales campaign must be sold at a discounted price. These clearance sales are fast-paced and pricing decisions must be made for more than 11,000 different fashion designs that Zara introduces each …
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Incorporating consumer resistance to innovation in a new product diffusion model: A new model and a simulation comparison with existing models
… the latter on the accuracy of one-step-ahead sales forecasting in twenty-six markets. In addition, in markets characterized by strong consumer resistance, the proposed model is superior to the RAU model on both performance criteria. The proposed model is also superior to the Bass model (1969), …
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Essays in Empirical Operations Management
… Compustat to study the problem of managing and forecasting a firm's cash flow from operations. The study aims to equip a financial manager or a C.F.O. with a range of operational policies that they may evaluate to improve their firm's cash flow. This problem, however, turns out to be notoriously …
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Bayesian Computation for Variable Selection and Multivariate Forecasting in Dynamic Models
… series analysis due to the need for sequential forecasting and updating of model parameters as data is observed. This dissertation presents techniques for efficient Bayesian computation in multivariate time series analysis. Computational scalability is a core focus of this work, and often rests …