How to Make Demand and Sales Forecasting
The most important business forecasting is demand forecasting. If you, as an entrepreneur, know how much will be the demand for your products and services, it will be easier for you to forecast sales and costs that your business will make. After successful demand forecasting, it will be much easier to forecast everything else for your small business.
In the previous post, I wrote about some open questions related to business forecasting. This post is the second part of a series of posts related to business forecasting.
When it comes to forecasting, you simply want to find the following:
- future behavior of variables (income, profit, sales per employee, region),
- behavioral pattern and
- prove that these behaviors will be relevant in the future.