Method and device for determining goods sales volume

Abstract

The invention discloses a method and device for determining goods sales volume, and relates to the technical field of warehouse logistics. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring historical sales volume data of a plurality of similar articles corresponding to a target article; calculating the similarity between the target article and the plurality of similar articles according to the historical sales volume data of the target article and the plurality of similar articles; calculating the weights of the plurality of similar articles according to the similarity between the target article and the plurality of similar articles; and according to the weights of the plurality of similar articles and the historical sales volume data of the plurality of similar articles, determining a sales volume prediction value of the target article. Through adoption of the steps, the accuracy and reliability of a new product sales volume prediction result can be improved, and the problems of low accuracy, poor reliability, even incapability of prediction and the like of the sales volume prediction result caused by less historical sales information of the new product in the prior art are solved; and thus, people are guided to timely and accurately carry out business operations such as replenishment based on the sales volume prediction result.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of warehousing and logistics, in particular to a method and a device for determining the sales volume of an item. Background technique [0002] In actual business scenarios such as warehousing management on e-commerce platforms and smart retail in stores, it is of great significance to predict the sales of items. For example, when performing warehouse management on an e-commerce platform, it is necessary to predict the sales of items in the future, and determine the replenishment amount based on the sales forecast results and the inventory of the items, so as to guide relevant personnel to replenish in time. [0003] When an item first enters the market, because there is no historical sales data or only a small amount of historical sales data, it is always difficult to predict the item sales at this time. In the prior art, there are mainly the following item sales forecast methods: first, directly use conve...

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[0005] In view of this, the present invention provides a method and device for determining the sales of items, which can improve the accuracy and reliability of the sales forecast results of new products, and solve the problems in the sales forecast results caused by the lack of historical sales information of new products in the prior art. Problems such as low accuracy, poor reliability, and even unpredictability, and then guide people to conduct business operations such as replenishment in a timely and accurate manner based on sales forecast results

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