Dr Stephan Kolassa
Honorary ResearcherResearch Overview
- 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
Supervised By
Ingo Alth?fer, Jena University, https://www.minet.uni-jena.de/fakultaet/iam/l_althoefere.html
Professional Role
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
01/04/2016 → …
Research
Editorial activity
Editorial activity
Election to learned society
- Centre for Marketing Analytics & Forecasting