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A Study on Modeling and Forecasting of Mobile Phone Sales Trends

이동통신 단말기 판매 추이에 대한 모형 및 수요예측에 관한 연구

  • Kim, Min-Jeong (Department of Consumer Economics, Sookmyung Women's University)
  • 김민정 (숙명여자대학교 소비자경제학과)
  • Received : 2016.03.31
  • Accepted : 2016.06.02
  • Published : 2016.06.30
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Abstract

Among high-tech products, the mobile phone has experienced a rapid rate of innovation and a shortening of its product life cycle. The shortened product life cycle poses major challenges to those involved in the creation of forecasting methods fundamental to strategic management and planning systems. This study examined whether the best model applies to the entire diffusion life span of a mobile phone. Mobile phone sales data from a specific mobile service provider in Korea from March of 2013 to August of 2014 were analyzed to compare the performance of two S-shaped diffusion models and two non-linear regression models, the Gompertz, logistic, Michaelis-Menten, and logarithmic models. The experimental results indicated that the logistic model outperforms the other three models over the fitted region of the diffusion. For forecasting, the logistic model outperformed the Gompertz model for the period prior to diffusion saturation, whereas the Gompertz model was superior after saturation approaches. This analysis may help those estimate the potential mobile phone market size and perform inventory and order management of mobile phones.

하이테크 제품 중에서 이동통신 단말기는 빠른 속도로 혁신이 이루어지고 있으며 이에 따라 제품수명주기도 짧아지고 있다. 이렇게 짧아진 제품수명주기를 정확히 예측하기 위해서는 정확한 수요예측방법론의 선택이 중요하며 이는 전략적 경영계획 수립에 가장 기본적인 요소라고 할 수 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 이동통신 단말기의 전체 확산 수명에 적용될 수 있는 최적의 모형을 제시하는 것이다. 우리는 2013년 3월부터 2014년 8월까지 국내 특정 이동통신 서비스 사업자의 이동통신 단말기 판매 데이터를 활용하여 이동통신 단말기의 판매추이 및 수요예측을 위한 최적의 모형을 제시하고자 한다. 본 연구에서는 네 가지 모형의 성능을 비교분석하였는데 두 가지 S자형 확산모형인 Gompertz와 logistic 모형, 두 가지 비선형 회귀모형인 Michaelis-Menten과 logarithmic 모형을 비교한다. 모형 적합도에 따르면 logistic 모형이 모형일치성에 있어서 다른 세 개의 모형보다 성능이 우수한 것으로 발견되었으며 수요예측모델로는 확산이 정체하기 전까지는 logistic 모형이 우수하며 포화단계에 근접할수록 Gompertz 모형이 적합한 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 분석결과는 이동통신 단말기 시장 규모를 추정하거나 이동통신 단말기의 재고 및 주문관리를 하는데 있어서 유용한 자료로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

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