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Friday
Mar122010

Sales Forecasting Without a Net

Most businesses can take steps to build a pretty tight sales forecasting model using a bottom up and top down forecast by revenue, but when it comes time to break it down by product this can get tricky for custom manufacturers of parts used in medical devices or similar products. Why? Because aside from custom manufactured parts and custom devices and applications, what you are really dealing with is “custom customers”.

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