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Phorecaster365: New architecture for pharmaceutical sales forecasting

Researchers have introduced Phorecaster365, a human-supervised reference architecture designed to improve pharmaceutical sales forecasting and planning. This architecture integrates enterprise resource planning data with sales forecasts, separating various stages of data processing, modeling, and review. It emphasizes preserving crucial contextual information, such as inventory levels and transaction semantics, within a forecast context package. The system also includes a forecast evidence package to track predictions, model versions, and human adjustments, with a design informed by synthetic data experiments and a proposed rolling-origin evaluation protocol. AI

IMPACT This architecture could improve the reliability and operational utility of AI-driven forecasts in the pharmaceutical industry.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing a new system architecture. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.7]

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Phorecaster365: New architecture for pharmaceutical sales forecasting

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Houman Kazemzadeh, Kamyar Naderi ·

    Phorecaster365: A Human-Supervised Reference Architecture for Hybrid Pharmaceutical Sales Forecasting and Planning Decision Support

    arXiv:2609.13907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pharmaceutical sales forecasts inform planning across products, regions, and distribution channels, yet their interpretation depends on inventory availability, transaction semantics, product lifecycle, and the information availabl…