Application of SARIMAX Model to Forecast Daily Sales in Food Retail Industry

Nari Sivanandam Arunraj, Diane Ahrens and Michael Fernandes
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Nari Sivanandam Arunraj: Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Deggendorf, Germany
Diane Ahrens: Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Deggendorf, Germany
Michael Fernandes: Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Deggendorf, Germany

International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems (IJORIS), 2016, vol. 7, issue 2, 1-21

Abstract: During retail stage of food supply chain (FSC), food waste and stock-outs occur mainly due to inaccurate sales forecasting which leads to inappropriate ordering of products. The daily demand for a fresh food product is affected by external factors, such as seasonality, price reductions and holidays. In order to overcome this complexity and inaccuracy, the sales forecasting should try to consider all the possible demand influencing factors. The objective of this study is to develop a Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average with external variables (SARIMAX) model which tries to account all the effects due to the demand influencing factors, to forecast the daily sales of perishable foods in a retail store. With respect to performance measures, it is found that the proposed SARIMAX model improves the traditional Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) model.

Date: 2016
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