Temporal Big Data for Tactical Sales Forecasting in the Tire Industry

Ensemble Sales Forecasting Study in Semiconductor Industry

Sales forecasting plays a prominent role in business planning and business strategy. The value and importance of advance information is a cornerstone of planning activity, and a well-set forecast goal can guide sale-force more efficiently. A forecasting usually depends on many factors such as the product feature, supply chain constrain, market demand, market share, promotion strategy, competiti...

Sales Forecasting in Apparel and Fashion Industry: A Review

The fashion industry is a very fascinating sector for the sales forecasting. Indeed, the long time-to-market which contrasts with the short life cycle of products, makes the forecasting process very challenging. A suitable forecasting system should also deal with the specificities of the demand: fashion trends, seasonality, influence of many exogenous factors, . . . . We propose here a review o...

Ethical Issues in the Big Data Industry

The 33rd International Symposium on Forecasting: Forecasting with Big Data

A panel data approach for fashion sales forecasting

Sales forecasting is an important problem in fashion retail operations. In this paper, we propose a novel panel data based particle-filter (PDPF) model to conduct fashion sales forecasting. We evaluate the performance of proposed model in terms of sales quantity and color trend prediction by using real data from the fashion industry. The experimental results provide novel insights and practical...