Supply Chain Science

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Jan 3, 2012

Big data in retail, a reality check

Due to manpower constraints, retailers do very little of their market basket data. Learn what Big Data can do.

Oct 20, 2011

Out-of-shelf can explain 1/4 of store forecast error

OOS can do a lot worse that just degrade the forecasting accuracy, OOS can also improve it...

Sep 19, 2011

Seasonality illustrated

Long time-series are more visual and appealing. Lokad opposes instead short time-series - discover why!

Aug 2, 2011

Two KPIs for your OOS detector

Discover why sensibility and precision are the two fundamental metrics when judging an OOS system.

Apr 1, 2011

Business is UP but forecasts are DOWN

Learn how to reverse your thinking and go against what seems logical for more accurate demand forecasting.

Mar 9, 2011

New Forecasting Technology FAQ

Discover our new FAQs covering the topics of seasonality, trend, product life-cycle, promotions and more.

Nov 19, 2010

Fallacies in data cleaning for (short-term) sales forecasts

Learn why Lokad does not provide any explicit feature supporting data cleaning.

Oct 25, 2010

Reverse supply chain gotcha for demand forecasting

Understand why we strive to deliver demand forecasts rather than sales forecasts.

Apr 26, 2010

Shortage vs. Stock, forecasting accuracy matters

The relationship between service level, safety stock & forecasting accuracy is sometimes fuzzy. Let's clarify.

Oct 21, 2009

Modeling varying lead time

High service levels do not come for free. Discover the impact of varying lead times on this.