There are two distinct groups of emerging issues in the
area of sales forecasting and decision support systems:
methodological issues and implementational issues. This
paper discusses each of them. The discussion of implemen
tational issues includes some results of a survey of fore
casting practice. The paper serves as a preface to the
special section on sales forecasting and decision support
systems and introduces the papers included in the special section.
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