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...
Improving Service Parts Forecasting
An automotive company’s legacy parts forecasting system suffered from age, scalability issues, and expensive licensing fees to the vendor. During a short planning cycle at the end of each month...
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...
Automatic Order Writing
A consumer goods company redesigned a portion of their supply network. For certain sales outlets, a distinct distribution...
Improving Case Fill Rates
A consumer goods company struggled, in some of their categories, to maintain desired case fill rates to customers....
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...
Improving Financial Forecast Accuracy with Less Effort
A retailer’s quarterly financial forecasting process would take 28 people, 160 hours to...
Forecasting Maintenance Requirements
A transportation service company provides maintenance services to very large fleets. They needed...
Deploying Multi-tier Causal Forecasting Systems
Four consumer product companies we have worked with have recognized the value of linking...
Multiple CPG Demand Forecasting Implementations
Several of our CPG clients have similar challenges with demand forecasting. How to produce accurate...
Projecting Beef Cattle Endpoint Performance
An international animal health company wanted to build an improved decision tool for beef producers looking...
Commodity Prices, Producer Profitability and Spending
A producer of animal feed medications and vaccinations wanted to understand how livestock....
Commodity Prices and Customer Demand
A railroad transports crude oil from refineries to many oil customers. They need to understand demand...
Knowledge Transfer to Build Automated Daily Order Forecasts
A growing company that provides daily grocery delivery services through online...
Predicting Profit Erosion in Commercial Construction
A large national construction company was experiencing a loss of tens of millions of dollars of profit...
Facility Cost Benchmarking
A large global manufacturer desired to implement a cost benchmarking system to understand...
Forecasting Application Hosting
The client licensed new software for forecasting and wanted to realize the gains immediately. But between constraints with the company’s IT department...
Forecasting Audit
A manufacturer had invested in forecasting software and staff time with the expectation of realizing substantial...
Weather Data in Analytics
Weather plays a factor in many of the subjects our case studies. Although the weather is often...