Sales forecasting with financial indicators and experts' input

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1056-1076

  Osadchiy, Nikolay ^a   Gaur, Vishal ^b   Seshadri, Sridhar ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAS Institute Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

finance interface; martingale modulated forecast evolution; operational hedging; operations; retail operations; sales forecasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884984529     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/poms.12022     Document Type: Article

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