It Can’t All Be True

Re:It Can’t All Be True by 127001brewer on Monday April 22, 2013 @03:55PM (#5591431)

My interpretation is that it's (nearly) impossible to predict a company's revenue based on the various, and sometimes disparate, signals in the supply chain.

It's like asking a single potato farmer to predict how well Utz potato chips will sell this summer.

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Re:It Can’t All Be True by endersshadow on Monday April 22, 2013 @04:07PM (#5591499)

As somebody who's built analytics around a few massive-scale consumer goods companies, let me tell you: If you think you understand a company's supply chain as an outsider, you don't know the first thing about supply chains.

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Re:It Can’t All Be True by YokoZar on Monday April 22, 2013 @05:14PM (#5591807)

And if you do understand the supply chain as an outsider for some reason, you're going to be using this information to make large bets about the stock price rather than release it to the media.

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Re:It Can’t All Be True by eggnet on Monday April 22, 2013 @07:15PM (#5592317)

Or place your bets and then release the information.

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