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...
Promotional Risk Feedback for Sales Account Managers
The client relies heavily on promotions for many of their products, and future planned...
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...
Strategy for Applying Analytics to a Demand Signal Repository
A consumer packaged goods company had invested heavily in building a so-called demand signal...
Alerting to Potential Lost Sales
A business-to-business company with many high volume, high-quantity orders from customers..
Pricing Segmentation Using a Demand Signal Repository
A consumer goods company spent several years and millions of dollars building a demand signal...
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...
Better Quantifying of Promotional ROI
The sales executives of this consumer packaged goods company relies on sales and promotion data...
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...
Forecasting Audit
A manufacturer had invested in forecasting software and staff time with the expectation of realizing substantial...
Pandemic Response
In the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic our clients and other companies needed...
Weather Data in Analytics
Weather plays a factor in many of the subjects our case studies. Although the weather is often...