• Retail forecasting at a highly granular level (e.g., stock keeping unit × store × day)
• Retail inventory control, especially for perishables
• Intermittent demand forecasting
• Forecast accuracy measures

Ingo Althöfer, Jena University, https://www.minet.uni-jena.de/fakultaet/iam/l_althoefere.html

I work in a development team at SAP Switzerland AG, which develops forecasting and replenishment solutions for retail. My responsibilities include:

• conception, prototyping and testing of forecasting and replenishment algorithms
• liaison with product/solution management, software development, analytics, implementation, sales and marketing functions
• contact with customers
• internal and external algorithmic and statistical training
• supervision of M.Sc. theses and internships
• academic research