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Neil Primozich

Prashant Warier

David Ginsberg

Kenneth J Ouimet

A computer-implemented method transforms transactional data and supply data into a forecast of demand for controlling a commerce system. Goods move between members of a commerce system. Transactional data related to movement of goods between the members of the commerce system is recorded. The transactional data includes customer store, product, time, price, promotion, and merchandizing. Supply data related to movement of goods between the members of the commerce system is recorded. The supply data includes inventory, product, store, and merchandising readily available for purchase. Model parameters are estimated based on the transactional data and supply data using a model to generate a forecast of demand for the goods. The forecast of demand for the goods is provided to a member of the commerce system to control the movement of goods in the commerce system. The forecasts of demand takes into account an out-of-stock condition, price promotion, and promotional lift of the product.

System and method of model forecasting based on supply and demand

A computer-implemented method prepares data for modeling. The method comprises storing data from customer sales transactions in a database and retrieving a dataset of the data from the database. The dataset may include promotion and merchandizing entries. The method includes cleansing the dataset to remove erroneous and anomalous entries. Cleansing the dataset may include determining a threshold value from the dataset and determining whether a value of the dataset exceeds the threshold value, and determining an out-of-stock status for a product from the dataset. The method includes aggregating the dataset over a plurality of dimensions of the transactional space including store, product, and time dimensions, and analyzing the dataset following the cleansing and aggregating steps within a model to predict attributes of subsequent sales transactions.

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Neil Primozich