Suppliers of consumer packaged goods are facing an increasingly challenging situation as they work to fulfill orders from their retail partners' distribution facilities. Traditionally these suppliers have generated forecasts of a given retailer's orders using records of that retailer's past...

This study covers the application of asymmetric accuracy metrics in the daily retail sales prediction problem. The paper is focused on the empirical validation of an accuracy metric derived from the newsvendor model. We scrutinize the accuracy metric's advantages and describe its properties....

Management is now on the verge of a breakthrough in figuring out precisely how the interactions ultimately decide performance in the service sector between knowledge flows, resources, energy, human resources, and capital equipment. How these five concepts of flow interlock to be able to...