... Inventory control Performance measurement (quality) Sales forecasting Simulation There seems to be a recently increasing interest in the supply chain inventory problems. A major class of this research stream has focused on the issues related with determining optimal inventory allocation policies...

... – presented by Holmström (1998) . The approach has been designed to support judgmental forecasting and make it more efficient. Instead of producing a sales forecast for each product individually, the approach is based on working with an entire product range, an assortment, and adjusting the products...