Library Guides: IET 317: Appiah-Kubi: Pricing & Sales Forecasting

Manufacturers, Distributors, Suppliers

ThomasNet Manufacturers, distributors and service providers in the U.S. and Canada. Many links to product catalogs.

Alibaba.com Global source for suppliers, producers, manufacturers, and distributors of all kinds of goods.

Bizminer
A database providing industry financial reports, market research, and benchmarking data for analyzing business and industry market trends.
Quickly search startup and small business statistics, such as annual sales and market share, failure rates, and entrepreneurial activity rates. Reports are available for states and local areas as well as the national level. Data includes access to 9000+ markets and more than 10 million companies.
IBISWorld
Look in the Key Statistics section.
This industry research database contains reports on industries in the China, Global, and U.S. markets. The U.S. content is further subdivided into: Industry Reports classified by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), Specialized Industry Reports for industries not adequately covered by NAICS, US Industry State Reports, US State Economic Profiles, US Industry iExpert Summaries, US Specialized Industry iExpert Summaries, US Business Environment Profiles, and US Business Environment State Profiles. Global industry reports are strong in the manufacturing sector. Each report contains an “at a glance” overview (including SWOT analysis), performance data, outlook data, products & markets analysis, competitive landscape analysis, lists of major companies, operating conditions, and key statistics. Statistics include financial ratios and industry averages from the Risk Management Association.

The PDMA handbook of new product development by Kenneth B. Kahn (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2013
See Chapter 16, "Forecasting New Products," pp. 265-281.
New Product Forecasting: An Applied Approach by Kenneth B. Kahn
Publication Date: 2006
Limited Preview at Google Books.

Kahn, K.B. (2014). Solving the problems of new product forecasting. Business Horizons, 57:607-615. doi:10.1016/j.bushor.2014.05.003

Fader, P. S. and Hardie, B. G. S. (2005). The value of simple models in new product forecasting and customer-base analysis. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 21: 461–473. doi: 10.1002/asmb.592

Fader, P. S. and Moe, W. W. (2002). Using advance purchase orders to forecast new product sales. Marketing Science, 21: 347-364.