MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS- "DEMAND (OR SALES) ESTIMATION AND FORECASTING TECHNIQUES"
MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS- "DEMAND (OR SALES) ESTIMATION AND FORECASTING TECHNIQUES" MEANING AND DEFINITION OF DEMAND OR SALES FORECASTING A forecast is a prediction or estimation of future situation. Forecasts can be both physical as well as financial in nature. The more realistic the forecasts, the more effective decisions can be taken for tomorrow. Demand forcasting is known as sales forecasting also. It means to estimate the sales for a certain future period. Under this technique, efforts are made to estimate the sales of a product or products of an enterprise for a certain future period of time. This forecast may be in terms of quantity as well as value. It has been defined as under: 1 “The company’s sales forecast is the expected level of company’s sales based on a chosen marketing plan and assumed environmental conditions.” – Philip Kotler 2. “Sales forcast is an estimate of sales during a specified future period, which estimate is tried to a proposed marketing plan and wh...