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1 FORECASTING ANALYTICS PROJECT REPORT Submitted By: Arka Sarkar (613161) Kushal Paliwal (613128) Malvika Gaur ( ) Shwaitang Singh ( )
2 Executive Summary: Problem Description: We aim to forecast daily sales (unit sold) of the top 5 selling SKUs for the coming week (1 st August 212 to 7 th August 212). We identify the top 5 selling SKUs in 212 as follows: Item Sales (INR) Saffola Gold Oil 5 Lt. Jar 92,92.47 BikajiNmknBhujiaSev 1KG 819, DaawatDevaaya BM Rice 5 Kg. Pack 78, Ashirwaad Atta 1 Kg PO 587, Fortune Refine Soya Oil 5 Lt. Jar 538, From a total of nearly 1, SKUs, the top 5 SKUs alone are responsible for nearly 3% of the store s revenues (see Appendix I). Also these 5 SKUs are bellwether products for their classesand it would be instructive for store managers to note change in sales in these as an indication for change in sales for the respective classes themselves. Forecasts of the sales of the top 5 SKUs can help managers to: Estimate volatility of earning and design promotion campaigns to smoothen earnings Protect against stock-outs to avoid lost business opportunities Data Description: We re provided with 2 datasets, namely customer data and transaction data. The transaction data comprises of details (quantity sold, extended price etc.) Figure: per day for Saffola Gold 5 Lt. Jar per day Figure: per day of the week for Saffola Gold 5 Lt. Jar
3 Key Data Characteristics: Missing Values: There were a number of missing values for the Top 5 SKUs. These missing values can either be interpreted as (1) error in recording data or (2) no sales (i.e. data value = ) due either stock-outs or no demand for the product. Seasonality: The SKUs exhibit some level of seasonality. In most cases there is a pronounced shift in trend over the weekends as compared to the weekdays. In some cases, the there is a 7 day seasonality that is exhibited. Transaction size: We see that the transaction size (i.e. the number of units bought) is in multiples of 3 each. Outliers: There are number of outliers (i.e. when values are more than 3 standard deviations away). These occur due to (1) more than normal number of transactions driven in some cases by proximity to public holidays (2) a single bulk buyer who dominates the sales. High Level description of the final forecasting method and performance: Item Forecasting Method* RMSE MAPE Saffola Gold Oil 5 Lt. Jar MLR and Residual Forecast % Bikaji Nmkn Bhujia Sev 1KG Seasonal Naïve Forecast** % Daawat Devaaya BM Rice 5 Kg. Pack MLR and Residual Forecast % Ashirwaad Atta 1 Kg PO Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) % Fortune Refine Soya Oil 5 Lt. Jar Holt-Winters Smoothening % *Please refer to appendix III, IV, V and VI for the respective models tested, intermediate results and forecast plot for the next 7 days. Forecast for Saffola shown in the accompanying presentation. **For the SKU Bikaji, although the MLR with Residual Forecast shows a much better visual fit (see appendix III), it does not outperform seasonal naive when it comes to the error measures for the specific 7 day period that we chose. Forecast assumptions: Level of confidence for the forecast: There are just forecast and should not be construed as predictions. Methods used produce forecast with a 95% level of confidence. We believe the relevant error measures in this case are: RMSE and MAPE. Relatively higher values of Customer preferences do not change over the 7 day forecast period and stay the same experienced over the training and validation period (1 st August, 211 to 31 st July, 212) The store has sufficient inventory and there would be no stock outs that would act as upper limits number of units that can be sold Missing Values imply that there were no sales on that given day for the SKU. The data has been fitted to incorporate zeros in cases where there was missing data. Outliers due to bulk purchases (>4X times the regular purchase size) made by a particular customer are considered to be random events and cannot be forecasted Impact of holidays is not incorporated as we do not have an exhaustive set of holidays in the region where the store is located. Additionally, we have limited information on how the effect of the holiday should be built into the model. In some cases, the the SKU sales peak 2 days before the actual holiday, in others they peak on the actual day of the holiday while in others they peak 2 days after the actual holiday. In the absence of credible source of different types of
4 holiday, coupled with the fact that the data that we have is only for 1 year (i.e. we cannot confirm the type of holiday across years), we ve not incorporated the effects of holidays into our forecast. Conclusions and recommendations: Cash flow variations: Since these five SKUs combined account for over 2% of the revenues of the store, accurate forecasting will help in understanding the cash flows via receipts over the immediate future. This information can then be used to balance outflows of cash, including payments to be made to suppliers, wholesalers, etc. We recommend the store-owner to use this information to manage cash flow positions. Protection against stock-outs: Accurate forecasts will help us to gauge demand for these products over the next one week. Since these SKUs are important from a revenue standpoint, accurate forecasts will help us to anticipate an increase in demand, and give the store-owner ample lead time to order the SKUs and prevent stock-outs. Inventory management: The store-owner could contrast revenues generated by these SKUs and lower selling SKUs. In case of high anticipated demand and limited shelf space, the owner could remove lower grossing items and order excess quantity of these top selling SKUs. Additionally, these forecasts could be used to better manage inventory levels in general. Holiday demand: It was observed that the sales of these 5 SKUs tend to peak just before holidays. The store-owner could use these forecasts to protect against stock-outs during such periods, especially since these SKUs are the highest grossing items. Technical Summary: Data Preparation Issues: Filtering: The first level of data preparation included filtering for the particular SKU of interest Missing Values Removal:We insert zeros (assuming that there were no sales on the particular day) for the dates where there were no data in the dataset Outlier Removal: In this step, a frequency chart wascreated to understand if there any aberrations in the purchase pattern. For example, if 3 and 6 are the most common purchase quantities, we needed to understand how to deal with a customer who has bought 9 units. Our treatment of outliers has been conservative and we have replaced the rows with only the highest frequency with the average value, for example a value of 9 has been replaced with 3 in the case of Saffola Gold Methodology: The sequence of steps in forecast is shown below: Data Visualization Random Walk Test Benchmarking: Naive and Seasonal Forecast Single Layer: Multiple Linear Regression Model Dual Layer: Multiple Linear Regression Model with Residual Forecast Smoothing Method (Additive Holt-Winters)
5 Caveats: As part of our investigations, we also did find customers who purchased certain SKUs (eg: Saffola) did in-fact return for a second purchase after a certain period of time. To forecast the sales of Saffola, an alternate method could have been to build a forecast on the number of customers visiting the particular store on any given day to purchase Saffola Gold. We believe this would be venturing into the realm of econometric models, which given the current data may have a very high explanatory power; the correlation could not be construed as causation and made the basis for a forecast. Data Visualization: We first perform a visual check to detect level, trend and seasonality in the data. To detect seasonality we plot ACF plots of the quantity sold, to identify the seasonal lags. An example of how this was done for the Saffola SKU is shown below, where in we conclude that there is 7 day seasonality in the data base on the ACF Plot. We also see that we would need an additive model based on the linear trend line plotted for the quantity of Saffola Gold SKU sold per day. Random Walk Test: We perform the random walk test to determine if the series at hand can actually be forecasted. We find that all the series are not random walks. Benchmarking: We use the naïve and the seasonal naïve forecast as the benchmark for the final model. Error Measure Naïve Forecast Seasonal Naïve Forecast RMSE MAPE 15.2% 89.7% Multiple Linear Regression Model: Based on the trend and seasonality involved we forecast each SKU using a multiple linear trend model with seasonality being built in by using dummy variables with Training, Validation and Testing partitions. The time period for each of these periods are: o Training: 1 st August 211 to July 24 th, 212 o Validation (1 week): July 25 th 212 to 31 st July 212 o Test (1 month): August 1 st 212 and August 31 st 212
6 Multiple Linear Regression Model with Residual Forecast:To further improve the model, we add an additional layer of residual forecast to the model. In the case of Saffola Gold SKU, we notice that there is still some seasonality (lag 4) that remains in the residuals, which can be captured by an AR(4) model. Holt Winter s Smoothing Method: Last but not the least, we try a smoothing method to estimate the sales for the various SKUs to find the most optimal values of RMSE and MAPE for the 1 week forecast that we intend to develop. To take the example of Saffola Gold, we find the below results by running the Holt Winters Smoothing, using the various parameters. Time Plot of Actual Vs Forecast (Training Data) Dayindex Actual Forecast Summary of results for the various SKUs:
7 Appendix I: Selection of Top 5 SKUs Top 5 selling SKUs in 212 are as shown below: Total Sales in the Department for the years 211 and 212: Top 5 selling SKUs in 212 as a percentage of total sales (in INR) in 212, is shown below: SaffolaGold Oil 5 Lt. Jar 92,92.47 BikajiNmknBhujiaSev 1KG 819, DaawatDevaaya BM Rice 5 Kg. Pack 78, Ashirwaad Atta 1 Kg PO 587, Fortune Refine Soya Oil 5 Lt. Jar 538, Sum of Top 5 SKUs 3,628,387.8 Total (for all SKUs) 122,781,98.6 % of sales 2.96%
8 Appendix II: Line Graphs for SKUs Figure: Haldiram Sev Bhujia ( on Y-axis and dates on X-axis) Figure: Fortune Refined Oil ( on Y-axis and dates on X-axis) Figure: Daawat Rice ( on Y-axis and dates on X-axis) Figure: Aashirwaad Aata ( on Y-axis and dates on X-axis)
9 Frequency ACF Appendix III: Bikaji Sev Bhujia A histogram plot of the data, after data cleaning was performed. The ACF plot shows that there is a seven day seasonality that can be exploited during forecasting. 2 Histogram 1.5 ACF Plot for Lags ACF UCI LCI Visualizing the data: Data is fairly noisy with a close to no trend Linear () 2 per. Mov. Avg. () Naïve forecast and the Seasonal Naive Forecast: Naïve Forecast Seasonal Naïve Forecast Multiple Linear Regression Plot using a 7 day seasonality (modelled using dummy variables)
10 Forecast ACF plot for the residuals shows that the there is some signal that remains in the residuals We see a good fit, once we capture the signal in the residuals using an AR(5) model and add it back to our orginal, however for the one week forecast that we wish to make we do not get a result better than the seasonal naive forecast on the error measures chosen. Actual Value New Forecast
11 ACF Plot for residuals shows that there is no further signal to be captured. Forecast for Bikaji Namkeen, for the next 7 days using the multiple linear regression with AR(5) model for the residuals: Actual Forecast
12 Appendix IV: Daawat Rice Day of the week break down for Daawat Rice is shown below. We notice that there is a clear difference in levels for weekends as compared to weekdays. Data preparation, we see that there a number of missing values and negative values. For the missing values, we use our judgement to conclude that these were recording errors and replace them with the average value in the data. Quantity bought per Transaction Number of such transactions Grand Total 1166 Seasonal Naïve Forecast Naïve Forecast
13 Frequency ACF We show histogram of the data of the data after we correct for missing values and negative values. We also show the ACF plot see that there is seven seasonality in the data. 2 1 Histogram ACF Plot for Lags ACF UCI LCI Training and Validation Actual vs. Forecasted (MLR with seven day seasonality) and the respective residual plot is shown below. We then check the ACF plot for Actual Value Predicted Value Training and Validation Residuals Residuals Actual Predicted Residual
14 1-Aug-11 1-Sep-11 1-Oct-11 1-Nov-11 1-Dec-11 1-Jan-12 1-Feb-12 1-Mar-12 1-Apr-12 1-May-12 1-Jun-12 1-Jul-12 ACF ACF We check the residual plots to see that there is some seasonality that is not captured and we attempt to do it via an AR model. 1 ACF Plot for Residual Combined Lags ACF UCI LCI Results of the multiple linear regression with overlay of the residual forecasts show a much better fit. Additionally, the residual plots do not show any further signal that can be captured ARIMA Forecast ACF Plot for New Residuals Lags ACF UCI LCI
15 Appendix V: Fortune Oil Visualizing the data : Sales Dominant on Weekends: Data Clean Up: Negative quantity values are replaced with the lowest value (assuming those were data entry errors). For missing values we ve inserted zero value rows. Quantity bought per transaction No. of such transactions Grand Total 583
16 ACF Test for Random Walk: ARIMA Model ARIMA Coeff StErr p-value Const. term AR Naïve Forecast: Naïve Forecast Residuals & Errors: Residual Residual -2-4 Seasonal Naïve Forecast: Not much improvement since there are many intermediate missing values which cause even the seasonal model to break quite often. We then check for seasonality in data. We notice that seasonality is most pronounced for day ACF Plot for Lags ACF UCI LCI
17 Multiple Linear Regression with 7 day seasonality: The Regression Model Input variables Coefficient Std. Error p-value SS Constant term Dayindex Weekday_ Weekday_ Weekday_ Weekday_ Weekday_ Weekday_ Training Data scoring - Summary Report Total sum of squared errors RMS Error Average Error E-8 Validation Data scoring - Summary Report Total sum of squared errors RMS Error Average Error Actual Vs Forecast and Residuals: Forecast Residuals Res
18 ACF ACF Plot for Residuals of the multiple linear regression 1 ACF Plot for E Lags ACF UCI LCI Plot of multiple linear regression with overlay of AR model for residuals, we see that there is still some signal remaining in the residuals however on running the model, we do not see a significant improvement in terms of the error measures.
19 Appendix VI: Aashirwaad Atta Visualizing the data: Sales dominant on weekends: Outliers and Missing Data: Transaction Size Count of Customer_No
20 Grand Total 1166 Missing values are replaced with zero. Spikes are treated as outliers and are replaced with closest values that fall within our tolerance range. Most such cases are due to one single customer doing infrequent bulk purchases. Random Walk Test: We see that the ARIMA Coeff StErr p-value Const. term AR Naïve Forecast: Naïve Forecast Residuals: Residual Residual
21 ACF ACF Plot to detect seasonality: ACF Values Lags ACF ACF Plot for Lags ACF UCI LCI Multiple Linear Regression with seven day seasonality: Forecast Residuals: Residuals Residuals -2
22 Multiple Linear Regression with overlay of the AR(7) for the residuals: Double Layer Forecast
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