Welcome to the retail forecasting blog. 

You’re probably here because you know how tough it can be to generate consistently good demand forecasts in retail.

If you’re looking for help or ideas, you’ve come to the right place.  

We’ve worked in retail forecasting for many years. During that time we’ve developed a solid network of smart people whose ideas and experience have increased our knowledge and improved our skills.

If our own limited network has been so useful to us so far, we imagine we can all benefit even more if we can engage the entire retail forecasting community.  

This blog is our attempt to do just that. We hope to provide a forum where people who are interested in the challenges and techniques of retail forecasting can share thoughts, ideas and experience.

If you work with any aspect of retail forecasting (business, IT, systems, organization, etc.), we hope you will find content of value to you here. We’ll share best practices, lessons learned, useful tricks, and anything else we feel can make your work better. We’ll try to post at least one new entry each week.

We hope you, in turn, will feel welcome to provide your thoughts and feedback. Let us know what topics interest you. The success of this blog will depend on you and your contributions to it. 

We’ll moderate the blog and all comments to ensure the quality of its content.

Thanks for coming, and please feel welcome to come again.

–The retail forecasting blog team.