Professor of Business Analytics, Lancaster University
John Boylan is Professor of Business Analytics at the Centre for Marketing Analytics and Forecasting, Lancaster University
His interests relate to short-term demand forecasting and its interface with inventory management. He is currently working on research relating to intermittent demand forecasting, seasonal grouping of demand series and reproducibility of forecasting research.
Nando’s chicken shortage: how the pandemic has made supply and demand tougher to predict
Aug 23, 2021 11:54 am UTC| Business
Peri-peri chicken fans were disappointed and frustrated when Nandos announced the temporary closure of nearly 50 restaurants. A chicken shortage has been blamed, and while reactions to the closures were satirised on social...
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