“…Qualitative sales forecasting methods mainly include the subjective probability method, expert judgment opinion method, Delphi method, mutual influence method, scenario prediction method, etc [ 2 – 4 ]. Quantitative sales forecasting methods mainly include the time-series method (e.g., autoregressive series analysis [ 5 ], ARIMA model [ 6 ]), machine learning method [ 7 ] (e.g., artificial neural network [ 8 , 9 ], extreme learning machine [ 10 ], support vector machine (SVR) [ 11 ], and ensemble algorithms), and deep learning method.…”