demandplanningproject

Demand Planning & Big Data Analytics

• Create a model in order to perform demand forecasting every month for a 12 month horizon.

• Create a model with a high degree of forecast accuracy in order to manage and reduce costs related to:

- Inventory planning and management.

- Procurement planning and buying decisions.

- Warehouse management.

- Production planning and scheduling.

• Understand correlations between sales profits and discount decisions, in order to apply better discount policies to increase profits.

Created a Data Pipeline to digest historical sales data from SAP.
Performed Data Cleaning on the data.
Performed EDA (Exploratory Data Analysis).
Performed training on 80% of the data with cross validation using different Regression algorithms.
Performed evaluation on 20% of the data using cross validation.
The best result we got from an XGBoost algorithm with a 92.91% Score