Gregory,
Thanks for the great suggestions! I figured I was not the only one to
have done this.. I'm hoping that by implemented this along with a well
managed inventory system, that I can ensure a stress free purchasing
experience for the users of the system -- at least much better than how it
runs now.
On Tue, June 24, 2008 9:34 am, Gregory Bourassa wrote:
> Rick,
>
> If you do not find a full package for purchase-pattern analysis, I do
> still suggest that you consider the excellent histogramming capabilities
> provided in the Numerical Methods package in the public repository.
> This implements the algorithms from the book "Object-oriented
> implementation of numerical methods" by Didier H. Besset, ISBN
> 1-55860-679-3. The book is worth having on hand too.
>
> This application area can be addressed by producing histograms for
> periods of interest in the past, then detecting whether the histograms
> have high enough peaks and/or enough area (volume) to warrant increasing
> planned orders beyond the routine levels.
>
> Gregory Bourassa
>
> Rick Flower wrote:
>> Hi all..
>>
>> One of the areas I'll be working on this summer for a Seaside based
>> web-app has to do with making suggestions for ordering products based on
>> past buying habits (taking into account perhaps the past 4-5 years).
>> The
>> current people-driven system (no computers helping currently) works on a
>> demand schedule -- if people ask for product X then that product is
>> ordered -- causing people to wait for delivery. What I want to do is
>> look
>> back in time perhaps a month in advance (say for the Christmas period)
>> and
>> have the system make suggestions for products to buy that have been
>> popular for the past several years. That way when people put in their
>> orders, the product is sitting and waiting for them instead of the other
>> way around.
>>
>> To that end, I could certainly generate some sort of algorithm to look
>> at
>> purchase history for a selected time period and make suggestions..
>> However, I figured it might be best to ask if anyone knows of an
>> algorithm
>> that tries to solve this equation from the get-go... Anyway, if no such
>> algorithm exists then I'll brute-force it and write my own but thought
>> I'd
>> ask first.. Thx!
>>
>>
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