Abstract:
This master thesis is a case study that treats the application of different forecasting methodologies employed in the fashion retail industry.
An Italian fashion company commisioned this preliminary study aiming to build a decisions support system for the Sales & Operations Manager.
The work is divided in two parts, where a review of the available solutions provides the foundation for the application in the real world case.
At the end, the results showed that demand forecasting systems provide a real business value as a tool to support the planning and restocking decisions.
