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Forecasting sales and forecasting uncertainty

Forecasting sales and forecasting uncertainty

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Predictive Analytics

There are a large number of methods used for forecasting ranging from judgmental thru expert systems and time series to causal methods.

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Inventory Management: Is profit maximization right for you?

Inventory Management: Is profit maximization right for you?

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Predictive Analytics

Good inventory management is essential to the successful operation for most organizations both because of the amount of money the inventory represents and the impact that inventories have on the daily operations.

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Inventory management – Some effects of risk pooling

Inventory management – Some effects of risk pooling

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Predictive Analytics

We have thus shown through Monte-Carlo simulations, that the benefits of pooling will increase with the number of locations and that the benefits of risk pooling can be calculated without knowing the closed form of the demand distribution.

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Inventory management – Stochastic supply

Inventory management – Stochastic supply

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Predictive Analytics

The introduction of uncertain supply has shown that profit can still be maximized however the profit will be reduced by increased costs both in lost sales and in excess inventory. But most important, profit variability will increase raising issues of possible other strategies.

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