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48 results for sales data

Sales forecast is an essential task in E-commerce and has a crucial impact on making informed business decisions. It can help us to manage the workforce, cash flow and resources such as optimizing the supply chain of manufacturers etc. Sales forecast is a challenging problem in that sales is affected by many factors in…

2017-08-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved sales forecasting for new products using transfer learning.

problem Insufficient training data for new products leads to inaccurate sales forecasts.
method Network-based Transfer Learning approach for deep neural networks.
result Deep neural networks' prediction accuracy for food sales forecasting can be effectively increased.

Sales data in a commodity market (supermarket sales to consumers) has been analysed by studying the fluctuation spectrum and noise correlations. Three related products (ketchup, mayonnaise and curry sauce) have been analysed. Most noise in sales is caused by promotions, but here we focus on the fluctuations in baseline…

2004-12-07abs ↗pdf ↗

We analyze an exhaustive data-set of new-cars monthly sales. The set refers to 10 years of Spanish sales of more than 6500 different car model configurations and a total of 10M sold cars, from January 2007 to January 2017. We find that for those model configurations with a monthly market-share higher than 0.1% the sale…

2017-05-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Many economic applications including optimal pricing and inventory management requires prediction of demand based on sales data and estimation of sales reaction to a price change. There is a wide range of econometric approaches which are used to correct a bias in estimates of demand parameters on censored sales data. T…

2018-10-22abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider a context-based dynamic pricing problem of online products, which have low sales. Sales data from Alibaba, a major global online retailer, illustrate the prevalence of low-sale products. For these products, existing single-product dynamic pricing algorithms do not work well due to insufficient data samples.…

2019-02-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Consider an ephemeral sale-and-repurchase of a security resulting in the same position before the sale and after the repurchase. A sale-and-repurchase is a wash sale if these transactions result in a loss within ±30\pm 30 calendar days. Since a portfolio is essentially the same after a wash sale, any tax advantage from …

2015-11-11abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper argues that there has not been enough discussion in the field of applications of Gaussian Process for the fast moving consumer goods industry. Yet, this technique can be important as it e.g., can provide automatic feature relevance determination and the posterior mean can unlock insights on the data. Signifi…

2017-09-16abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper introduces a method for forecasting corporate sales growth using multiple reference variables.

problem Forecasting corporate sales growth with multiple reference variables.
method Reference class selection using rank-based algorithms and principal components analysis for data dimension reduction.
result Dimension reduced variables with past sales growth rates and operating margins perform well in forecasting.

New method improves sales forecasting accuracy using tensor factorization.

problem Improving sales forecasting accuracy in retail businesses.
method Advanced Temporal Latent-factor Approach to Sales forecasting (ATLAS) using tensor factorization.
result Accurate and individualized prediction for sales across multiple stores and products.

Paper proposes a method to estimate consumer valuations from bundle sales data.

problem Estimating consumer valuations from bundle sales data using classical methods is challenging.
method Proposes an approach using EM algorithm and Monte Carlo simulation to estimate consumer valuations from bundle sales data.
result The approach can recover the distribution of consumers' valuations and is robust to unobserved no-purchases and clustered market segments.

This study enhances sales forecasts by integrating market indicators into forecasting models.

problem Traditional forecasting models rely solely on historical demand data.
method Automated integration of macroeconomic time series data (GDP growth) into forecasting models using feature selection methods.
result Feature selection methods, especially Forward Feature Selection, significantly improve forecasting accuracy.

Study measures impact of data and neural net similarity on transferability in restaurant sales data.

problem Identify indicators for successful transferability of neural nets across different data sets.
method Empirical study on sales data from six restaurants, calculating indicators based on data and neural net similarities.
result Negative correlations between transferability and indicators, allowing better model performance and fewer transfers.

The paper proposes a method to improve sales forecasts by selecting optimal reference classes.

problem Improving forecasts of sales growth exposed to behavioural bias.
method Finding optimal reference classes for each company based on specific predictors and matching forecast distributions to actual sales.
result The past operating margins are strong predictors for future sales distributions.

Improved sales forecasting at various levels using ensemble methods.

problem Enhancing sales forecasting accuracy at different levels of e-commerce data.
method Hierarchical robust aggregation of sales forecasts using exponential smoothing and Holt's linear trend method.
result Better forecasts at subsubfamily, subfamily, and family levels compared to individual techniques.

We analyze a database comprising quarterly sales of 55624 pharmaceutical products commercialized by 3939 pharmaceutical firms in the period 1992--2001. We study the probability density function (PDF) of growth in firms and product sales and find that the width of the PDF of growth decays with the sales as a power law w…

2005-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Statistical models of economic distributions lead to Boltzmann distributions rather than a Pareto power law. This result is supported by two facts: 1. the distributions of income, car sales, marriages or jobs are a matter of chances and luck and not of reason! 2. Data for property, automobile sales, marriages and job m…

2002-04-10abs ↗pdf ↗

New model predicts sales of new products with short life cycles.

problem Forecasting sales of new products with short lead times and life cycles.
method Developed an exponential factorization machine (EFM) to consider attributes and pairwise interactions.
result EFM model outperforms existing models in terms of MAPE and MAE.

This paper compares forecasting techniques for sales data, focusing on profit-driven models.

problem Choosing the best forecasting technique for sales data is challenging.
method Compares various forecasting methods including ML, statistics, and econometrics.
result Simple seasonal models consistently outperform other methodologies.

Study combines dynamic mode and wavelet decomposition for marketing time series analysis.

problem Insufficient quantitative studies in marketing literature.
method Dynamic mode decomposition and wavelet decomposition for marketing time series.
result Effect of time scale on brand sales persistence and forecasting.

Complex contagion model explains financial fire sales through continuous asset prices.

problem Modeling financial fire sales with a continuum of asset prices.
method Developed a threshold model of continuous-state cascades using real values for asset prices.
result Discretization approach accurately replicates the distribution of defaulted banks and asset prices.

Estimates treatment effects in time series data with always-missing controls.

problem Lack of control group in time series data, especially during specific events.
method Recover control group in event period, account for confounders and temporal dependencies.
result Robust estimation of control group's potential outcome and accurate predicted holiday effect.

Paper studies portfolio investment under volatility uncertainty and short-sale constraints, improving risk-adjusted returns.

problem Investment portfolio optimization under volatility uncertainty and short-sale constraints.
method Sublinear expectation model to handle volatility uncertainty, constructing SLE-MUV model.
result Pareto frontier of SLE-MUV model is a continuous convex curve with polynomial analytical expression.

A dynamic model of the product lifecycle of (nearly) homogeneous durables in polypoly markets is established. It describes the concurrent evolution of the unit sales and price of durable goods. The theory is based on the idea that the sales dynamics is determined by a meeting process of demanded with supplied product u…

2011-09-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep neural network predicts event ticket prices considering spatial-temporal data sparsity.

problem Predicting future ticket prices from sparse and spatiotemporal data.
method Bi-level optimizing deep neural network with coarsening and refining layers, bi-level loss function.
result Our model outperforms other methods in real-world ticket price prediction.

Detailed empirical studies of publicly traded business firms have established that the standard deviation of annual sales growth rates decreases with increasing firm sales as a power law, and that the sales growth distribution is non-Gaussian with slowly decaying tails. To explain these empirical facts, a theory is dev…

2007-03-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Study uses causal machine learning to assess coupon campaign impact on retailer sales.

problem Assessing the causal effect of a coupon campaign on retailer sales.
method Causal machine learning algorithms, subgroup analysis, optimal policy learning.
result Only two coupon categories (drugstore and other food) have a significant positive impact on sales.

Intel's system identifies and categorizes businesses for sales opportunities.

problem Identifying relevant new markets and customers for large enterprises.
method Mining public business web pages, enriching with external data, and using deep learning.
result Significantly boosts sales personnel's ability to discover new customers and partnerships.