Improvements of sales forecasts in a Swiss small and medium enterprise (SME)
BP2-STS
- Ramosaj, Agneta ORCID Université de Fribourg
- Fribourg [Switzerland], 2025
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PhD: Université de Fribourg (Suisse), 05.05.2025
forecasting
S&OP
optimisation
demand planning
quantitative methods
Stagger chart
SARIMA
SME
Machine learning
LSTM
Prévision économique
Vente
Méthodologie
Petites et moyennes entreprises
2000-
Suisse
English
Sales forecasting is defined collectively as the activity which estimate what will likely be the demand of the market in the future. It is based on historical and current information of a company. Forecasts are present in multinational companies as well as in SME
There are different methods to realize and improve sales forecasts. For a company active on the export’s market for example it is important to segment these markets in order to define the most suitable methods.
The company which neglects its sales forecasts is faced with risks of bad planning what engenders is overstocks, stock shortages, a mismanagement of the schedules of its employees on production lines, etc. All these consequences have a considerable financial impact for the company.
Through an in-depth study of tools and concepts of sales forecasts, the objective is to provide a SME a better control on these forecasts and to manage better stocks, diverse logistic costs, etc. In one more large scale, sales forecasts also allow to give good inputs to the company for the fixation of these future objectives: they are the basis of the S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning), process of periodic decision-making which allows to establish a unique consensus enter targets of sales, planning, distribution or even finance. This unique plan is then shared at every level by the company.
There are different methods to realize and improve sales forecasts. For a company active on the export’s market for example it is important to segment these markets in order to define the most suitable methods.
The company which neglects its sales forecasts is faced with risks of bad planning what engenders is overstocks, stock shortages, a mismanagement of the schedules of its employees on production lines, etc. All these consequences have a considerable financial impact for the company.
Through an in-depth study of tools and concepts of sales forecasts, the objective is to provide a SME a better control on these forecasts and to manage better stocks, diverse logistic costs, etc. In one more large scale, sales forecasts also allow to give good inputs to the company for the fixation of these future objectives: they are the basis of the S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning), process of periodic decision-making which allows to establish a unique consensus enter targets of sales, planning, distribution or even finance. This unique plan is then shared at every level by the company.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales et du management
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Computer science and technology
- Notes
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- Bibliographie
- License
- CC BY
- Open access status
- diamond
- Identifiers
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- SWISSCOVERY 991172543407705501
- DOI 10.51363/unifr.eth.2025.025
- URN urn:nbn:ch:rero-002-122912
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/332228
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