Sales forecasting is an essential task in retailing. In particular, consumer-oriented markets
such as fashion and electronics face uncertain demands, short life cycles and a lack of …

Sales forecasting is crucial for many retail operations. It is especially critical for the fashion
retailing service industry in which product demand is very volatile and product's life cycle is …

The fashion industry is a very fascinating sector for the sales forecasting. Indeed, the long
time-to-market which contrasts with the short life cycle of products, makes the forecasting …

Forecasting demand is a crucial issue for driving efficient operations management plans.
This is especially the case in the fashion industry, where demand uncertainty, lack of …

Companies in the fashion industry are struggling with forecasting demand due to the short-
selling season, long lead times between the operations, huge product variety and ambiguity …

Forecasts have traditionally served as the basis for planning and executing supply chain
activities. Forecasts drive supply chain decisions, and they have become critically important …

Forecasts can be used in an extraordinarily diverse range of ways across many domains in
which forecasting practitioners work continuously towards improving their forecasts. Each of …

Inaccurate sales forecasting (SF) leads to over-stock or stock-out, in which can increase
inventory costs, thereby reducing profits and return on investment. Furthermore, stock-out …

This paper reviews the research literature on forecasting retail demand. We begin by
introducing the forecasting problems that retailers face, from the strategic to the operational …

Demand forecasting for the fashionable products is still a difficult task for both academia and
industry regardless of how many effective approaches have been investigated and studied …