A manufacturing client wished to improve their forecasting approach by utilising advanced artificial intelligence. Traditional methods had struggled to perform in environment required balance between the pressures of long supply chains, short product life cycles, and the majority of sales concentrated in a small number of large customers, make for a complex and dynamic forecasting environment. In such a complex and environment, previous approaches had an unacceptable degree of inaccuracy- with MAPEs sometimes reaching 150%.

 

Remi AI was engaged on a brief that sounded much simpler than it was: develop a better forecasting solution. The Remi data science team leveraged concepts from probability theory, econometrics, and artificial intelligence to develop a forecasting engine,The engine ingested more than just sales history and product attributes - the client had rich CRM data that provided an indication of upcoming product demand using the sales pipeline.

 

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