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Issues on Sales Forecasting for Apparel Industry

@inproceedings{Abbas2017IssuesOS,
  title={Issues on Sales Forecasting for Apparel Industry},
  author={O Abbas and Khurram Shahzad and Ghulam Ali and Umar Sarwar},
  year={2017}
}
Sales forecasting has now become backbone of business industry due to change in the nature of business operations (Free on Board to Demand change Management). DCM business model requires that sales should be predicted first before actual order received. Prediction is always a challenging task. Moreover the sale forecast has become more critical, as the demand is uncertain. In this thesis, complete systemized forecasting method is proposed to fulfill the needs of supplier in apparel or fashion… 
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