{
  "id": 21746,
  "title": "Negative Values in Return Items",
  "url": "/competitions/grupo-bimbo-inventory-demand/discussion/21746",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2016-06-17T15:14:15.873Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 2,
  "views": 393,
  "content": "<p>Hi All, The data description mentions that that number of return items could be negative as the return could carry over for multiple weeks. </p>\n\n<p>Could someone elaborate on what does this mean?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "124367",
      "postDate": "06/17/2016 15:14:15",
      "content": "<p>Hi All, The data description mentions that that number of return items could be negative as the return could carry over for multiple weeks. </p>\n\n<p>Could someone elaborate on what does this mean?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi All, The data description mentions that that number of return items could be negative as the return could carry over for multiple weeks. \r\n\r\nCould someone elaborate on what does this mean?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "124368",
      "postDate": "06/17/2016 15:20:31",
      "content": "<p>I believe that would happen when the return items figure &gt; than sold items  figure.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I believe that would happen when the return items figure > than sold items  figure.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "124400",
      "postDate": "06/18/2016 03:25:11",
      "content": "<p>From what I understood, you could have a situation like:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>sales on week 4 of 100, </li>\n<li>no returns on week 5 and sales of 50</li>\n<li>but returns of 80 of 100 from week 4 on week 6, sales of 30 and return of 10 from week 5</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>on the data this would look like this:</p>\n\n<pre><code>               Venta_uni_hoy     Dev_uni_proxima     Demanda_uni_equil  \nweek 4            100                    0                                100\nweek 5             50                   90                                  0\nweek 6             30                    0                                  30\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Not totally confident this is the correct way to interpret this.</p>\n\n<p>Edit: demanda_uni_equi should not be negative even if returns of the next week exceed sales.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "From what I understood, you could have a situation like:\r\n\r\n- sales on week 4 of 100, \r\n- no returns on week 5 and sales of 50\r\n- but returns of 80 of 100 from week 4 on week 6, sales of 30 and return of 10 from week 5\r\n\r\non the data this would look like this:\r\n\r\n                   Venta_uni_hoy     Dev_uni_proxima     Demanda_uni_equil  \r\n    week 4            100                    0                                100\r\n    week 5             50                   90                                  0\r\n    week 6             30                    0                                  30\r\n\r\n\r\nNot totally confident this is the correct way to interpret this.\r\n\r\nEdit: demanda_uni_equi should not be negative even if returns of the next week exceed sales.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 124368,
      "author_name": "osmana",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/17/2016 15:20:31",
      "content": "<p>I believe that would happen when the return items figure &gt; than sold items  figure.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 124400,
      "author_name": "gcmartinelli",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/18/2016 03:25:11",
      "content": "<p>From what I understood, you could have a situation like:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>sales on week 4 of 100, </li>\n<li>no returns on week 5 and sales of 50</li>\n<li>but returns of 80 of 100 from week 4 on week 6, sales of 30 and return of 10 from week 5</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>on the data this would look like this:</p>\n\n<pre><code>               Venta_uni_hoy     Dev_uni_proxima     Demanda_uni_equil  \nweek 4            100                    0                                100\nweek 5             50                   90                                  0\nweek 6             30                    0                                  30\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Not totally confident this is the correct way to interpret this.</p>\n\n<p>Edit: demanda_uni_equi should not be negative even if returns of the next week exceed sales.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "124367": "Hi All, The data description mentions that that number of return items could be negative as the return could carry over for multiple weeks. \r\n\r\nCould someone elaborate on what does this mean?",
    "124368": "I believe that would happen when the return items figure > than sold items  figure.",
    "124400": "From what I understood, you could have a situation like:\r\n\r\n- sales on week 4 of 100, \r\n- no returns on week 5 and sales of 50\r\n- but returns of 80 of 100 from week 4 on week 6, sales of 30 and return of 10 from week 5\r\n\r\non the data this would look like this:\r\n\r\n                   Venta_uni_hoy     Dev_uni_proxima     Demanda_uni_equil  \r\n    week 4            100                    0                                100\r\n    week 5             50                   90                                  0\r\n    week 6             30                    0                                  30\r\n\r\n\r\nNot totally confident this is the correct way to interpret this.\r\n\r\nEdit: demanda_uni_equi should not be negative even if returns of the next week exceed sales."
  },
  "source": "meta"
}