The First Analytics Team in Action
We seek big opportunities and take a wide-angle view of what’s possible through advanced analytics. Our success has been based on our ability to be nimble, to respond and react quickly to our clients’ needs, flexibly tailoring and channeling our skill sets to their projects. No guesswork; not intuition; just a deep belief and reliance in the power of analytics.
We drive insight, intelligence and change. And we’re ready to do it for you.
Machine Learning Supporting Demand Planners
A leading consumer packed goods company relied on statistical models to forecast demand of their product. While baseline statistical forecasts were generally...
Forecasting and Planning for an Online Retailer
A popular online retailer needed to understand and project demand for nearly 30 million SKUs over multiple websites. We implemented a...
Forecasting Audit
A manufacturer had invested in forecasting software and staff time with the expectation of realizing substantial...
Public Affairs Crisis Management
A global consumer products company wanted to understand the impact of public relations events such as...
Improving Case Fill Rates
A consumer goods company struggled, in some of their categories, to maintain desired case fill rates to customers....
Uncovering Product Quality Issues using Machine Data
A food company experienced manufacturing issues with one particular product, where the product was...
Developing a “Big Data” Analytics Strategy
A consumer goods company wanted to determine the opportunities and challenges...
Improving Financial Forecast Accuracy with Less Effort
A retailer’s quarterly financial forecasting process would take 28 people, 160 hours to...
Knowledge Transfer to Build Automated Daily Order Forecasts
A growing company that provides daily grocery delivery services through online...
Optimizing Gasoline Prices
An operator of about 1700 gas stations needed to set fuel sales volume and profit targets at the corporate level...
Promotional Risk Feedback for Sales Account Managers
The client relies heavily on promotions for many of their products, and future planned...
Machine Learning for Data Quality
The client augments their own sales data with multiple third party sources to get a comprehensive view...
Automatic Order Writing
A consumer goods company redesigned a portion of their supply network. For certain sales outlets, a distinct distribution...
Building In-house Price and Promotion Modeling Capabilities
This retailer was dependent on large enterprise software to manage pricing...
Better Quantifying of Promotional ROI
The sales executives of this consumer packaged goods company relies on sales and promotion data...
Multiple CPG Demand Forecasting Implementations
Several of our CPG clients have similar challenges with demand forecasting. How to produce accurate...
Deploying Multi-tier Causal Forecasting Systems
Four consumer product companies we have worked with have recognized the value of linking...
Pricing Segmentation Using a Demand Signal Repository
A consumer goods company spent several years and millions of dollars building a demand signal...
Incorporating New Media into Marketing Mix Models
A company which for years had relied on marketing mix models to attribute sales volume to marketing..
Using Social Media for Business Decisions
This case is an amalgamation of several projects we have undertaking to incorporate social media...
Weather Data in Analytics
Weather plays a factor in many of the subjects our case studies. Although the weather is often...
Strategy for Applying Analytics to a Demand Signal Repository
A consumer packaged goods company had invested heavily in building a so-called demand signal...
Menu Price Optimization for a Quick-Serve Restaurant
An operator of a national chain of fast food restaurants desired to improve profits through price...
Augmenting Statistical Forecasting with Machine Learning
This company has a very capable data science team which looks for ways to bring machine learning into business processes...