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1 Indian School of Business Forecasting Sales for Dairy Products
2 Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY... 3 Data Analysis... 3 Forecast Horizon:... 4 Forecasting Models:... 4 Fresh milk - AmulTaaza (500 ml)... 4 Dahi/ Yogurt - Saras (200 gm)... 4 Dahi/Yogurt - Yakult Probiotic (350 ml) :... 4 Assumptions... 5 Conclusions and Recommendations... 5 TECHNICAL ANALYSIS... 6 Data Preparation:... 6 Class: Fresh Milk; Item Description: AmulTaaza 500 ml... 6 Class: Dahi and Yoghurt; Item Description: SarasDahi 200gm... 6 Class: Dahi& Yogurt; Item Description: Yakult Probiotic Drink... 7 Appendix 1: Technical Details - Class: Fresh Milk; Item Description: AmulTaaza 500 ml... 8 Appendix 2: Technical Details - Class: Dahi and Yoghurt; Item Description: SarasDahi 200gm Appendix 3: Technical Details - Class: Dahi& Yogurt; Item Description: Yakult Probiotic Drink... 15
3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Retailers face a formidable challenge of ensuring that they have optimum levels of inventory for goods that are perishable. This is because these goods have short shelf life without any salvage value and can hurt the profitability of the retailers significantly. It therefore becomes critical for the retailers to know accurate forecasts for perishable items such as fresh milk and yoghurt. These subclasses also drive footfall into the retail stores and hence it is important to maintain high levels of service for these products. We have chosen to forecast unit sales for two product classes - Fresh Milk and Dahi-Yoghurt. The rationale behind choosing these 2 product classes is that typically sales of these product classes would have correlation and henceforth provide additional insights. The sales data available from retail store for Yakult Probiotic drink 325 ml and SarasDahi 200gm from class Dahi and Yoghurt and AmulTaaza 500 ml from class Fresh Milk is aggregated at a daily, weekly and monthly level, to visualize any trends or recognizable patterns. Data Analysis
4 Daily sales for AmulTaaza go up to 100 units, for SarasDahi up to 80 units and for Yakult Probiotic drink up to 120 units. There is no consistent increase/decrease in sales figures or seasonal effects observable during the 13 months of data. Very sharp increase in sales observed on a few days, without any explainable reason. The trend of weekly sales shows that sales rise over the weekends and come down during the weekdays, most probably because more people come to the store on weekends. Sales also rise on Wednesdays within weekdays. Monthly sales for AmulTaaza show a decrease in variability as we move from Aug 2011 to Aug For Yakult and SarasDahi, monthly sales show jumps up and down without any regular pattern. Forecast Horizon: In light of our business proposition for perishable goods, forecasting sales on a daily basis would be most useful Forecasting Models: Fresh milk - AmulTaaza (500 ml) We have chosen Moving Average (7) as our final forecasting model. After evaluating various methods such as moving averages for other periods, naive forecastsetc, we decided to go for the MA (7) method with a MSE of on training and MSE of on validation. Dahi/ Yogurt - Saras (200 gm) We have chosen Holt Winters No Trend (Alpha =0, Gamma = 0.03) as the final forecasting method. The MSE of produced by this model was superior to the MSE of produced by the multiple linear regression model. Dahi/Yogurt - YakultProbiotic (350 ml) We have tried the Holt Winters No Trend (Alpha =0.2, Gamma = 0.09) as well as the multiple regression model. While the MSE for data validation for the two methods are comparable, the MSE for the training data is much better for linear regression than the Holt Winters method. (96.79 Vs )
5 Assumptions We have assumed that the historical purchasing pattern will be an indicator of the future purchasing pattern as well and there will be no drastic change in it The correlation that has been identified among products will continue to exist in the future The forecasting model is based on daily sales which are assumed to represent demand of the products and does not consider the possibility of stock-outs that might have happened over the sales period We suggest that the chosen models for each of the SKU's be used to forecast the daily level demand for the month of September Conclusions and Recommendations We suggest that the chosen models for each of the SKU's be used to forecast the daily level demand for the month of September As seen from its forecasting model, sales of AmulTaaza do not exhibit any seasonality although there are several random spikes. Hence, the implication for the managers is that any sudden increase or decrease in sales should not be considered as increasing or decreasing trend. Average sales over past week are the best predictor for next day s sale. Since the sales go up and down drastically, managers should consider having a high stock only if the stock out costs are considerably high than cost of overstocking. For Saras (350 ml), we propose that the model be used with care. There are occasional peaks which the model has not captured. While making decisions about inventory levels and safety stock, these occasional peaks should be borne in mind. Since data till only May 2012 has been used, we strongly recommend the use of latest data as soon as appropriate data is available for those months. The data also suggest occasional supply disruptions, so the retailer may want to thoroughly check the data and the corresponding forecasts for such anomalies. As shown from the model for Yacult Probiotic drink, the daily sales exhibit seasonality. Hence, managers should consider seasonality during the week while doing stock planning. The model provides reasonably accurate forecasts (as seen from low values of MSE). Hence, managers can have good confidence on the forecast.
6 TECHNICAL ANALYSIS Data Preparation: As part of the data preparation, total Quantity sold data was aggregated by Date for all the classes and SKU s. Quantity sold was then checked for every customer as well, for customers buying in bulk. The mean of sales was calculated for each item description and any outliers which were more than two standard deviations away from the mean value were replaced with mean value. The replacement of outliers with mean value was chosen over deletion of such records as this is a time series data where continuity is required for forecasting. Class: Fresh Milk; Item Description: AmulTaaza 500 ml As the data doesn t have any trend or seasonality, the appropriate methods to capture the randomness in data are the following: Moving average smoothing Neural Network Charts: As observable from the charts below, the neural network is not able to fit the data, hence MA method is chosen for further optimization. The best fitting MA model was obtained for MA(7). Please see Technical details in Appendix 1 Class: Dahi and Yoghurt; Item Description: SarasDahi 200gm Data Preparation: We realized that data for many of the months had a series of 0 sales. The time series shows that except for the period from Dec '11 to May '12, all months have several 0 values making those
7 months inappropriate for analysis. We believe that there was probably a supply disruption in this period. The final months we have chosen are from December '11 to May '12 as proper values are available. As the data has no trends but considerable seasonality, the following forecasting models were used Charts: Multiple Linear Regression with days of the week as dummy variables Holt Winters with no trend Based on RMSE values and plotted chart, we decided to proceed with the Holt Winters No Trend method (Alpha = 0, Gamma = 0.03) with season length = 7, please see details in Appendix 2 Class: Dahi& Yogurt; Item Description: Yakult Probiotic Drink The models that can be proposed for this data are the following: Linear Regression Model Holt Winters No Trend Charts: As observable from the chart below, Linear Regression gives an accurate forecast The best fitting model was obtained for Linear Regression. Please see Technical details in Appendix 3
8 Appendix 1: Technical Details - Class: Fresh Milk; Item Description: AmulTaaza 500 ml Data Availability: 1-Aug-2011 to 31-Aug-2012 RMSE/MSE Table: As MA (7) gives lowest error on both training and validation data, MA (7) is chosen to forecast daily ales of AmulTaaza MA 1 (naïve) MA 2 MA 3 MA 4 MA 5 MA 6 MA 7 MA 8 MA 9 MSE on training MSE on validation Forecasted Values: Output of MA (7) on AmulTaaza Daily Sales Transaction Date Actual Predicted Residual 1-Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul
9 8-Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Jul Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug
10 11-Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug
11 Appendix 2: Technical Details - Class: Dahi and Yoghurt; Item Description: SarasDahi 200gm Data available from 1-Aug-2011 to 31-Aug-2012 Trend Analysis Forecasting method The data we had from May to December had no trend and a constant seasonality. The seasonality was weekly with sales jumping over the weekend. Based on this we considered two methods for this data - 1) Multiple Linear Regression with days of the week as dummy variables 2) Holt Winters with no trend. For Holt Winters, we fine tuned values of alpha & gamma to come up with the best fitted model. For linear regression, we performed a multi-step process to check if there is correlation with other products such as AmulTaaza or Yakult and that is explained in the subsequent section Charts The chart below shows the Actual Vs Plotted for the Validation Data for both the linear regression and the Holt Winters method. For both models, we have used the finest tuned version to compare.
12 Multiple linear regression was initially applied for Saras sales using the previous day sales of AmulTaaza, previous day sales of Yakult, time, and dummy variables for weekday. As shown in the Regression output below, the p-value for previous day sales of AmulTaaza and time variables were significantly greater than the chosen cutoff value of On removing the previous sales of AmulTaaza as a predictor in the model, we saw that there was a slight increase in MSE value (as shown in the table above). Hence, we added back previous sales of AmulTaaza to the model. The next step was to remove time variable from the model. The fact that p-value of time variable was 0.41 reinforces that fact that the data for Sarasdahi quantity sold does not display any trend. However, the statistically significant p-values for weekday wise sales shown weekday-wise seasonality in the data. On removing the time variable from the model, MSE reduced to from The output of the final regression model run is as follows: Linear Regression Iteration 1 Linear Regression Iteration 2
13 Linear Regression Iteration 3
14 The output for the Holt Winters Method is shown below Holt Winters Output and Errors Transaction Actual Forecast Error LCI UCI Date 1-May May May May May May May May May May May May May May May May May May May May May May May May May May May May May May May Saras Sales Time Plot of Actual Vs Foreca Actual Transactio Error Measures (Training) MAPE MAD MSE Error Measures (Validation)
15 MAPE MAD MSE RMSE/MSE tables: The below shows various values for each methods we tried in order to come up with the most optimized one. Method MSE Values Linear Regression [Time, Dummy Variables (Weekday), Yakult(t-1), AmulTaaza(t-1)] Linear Regression [Time, Dummy Variables (Weekday), Yakult(t-1)] Linear Regression [Dummy Variables (Weekday), Yakult(t-1), AmulTaaza(t-1)] Holt Winters No Trend (Alpha = 0.2, Gamma = 0.05) Holt Winters No Trend (Alpha = 0.00, Gamma = 0.03) Appendix 3: Technical Details - Class: Dahi& Yogurt; Item Description: Yakult Probiotic Drink Seasonality was captured using a linear regression model by creating a categorical variable for Day of the week. This categorical variable was then used to create dummy variables, which are then used as predictors in the Model
16 Linear Regression: Regression Model Regression Equation Quantity = * t * Day of the Week_Monday * Day of the week_saturday * Day of the week_sunday * Day of the week_thursday * Day of the week_tuesday * Day of the week_wednesday Forecasting Date Actual Forecast Regression Forecast Holt Winters Regression Residual Holt Winters Residual 8/1/ /2/ /3/ /4/ /5/ /6/ /7/ /8/ /9/ /10/ /11/ /12/
17 /13/ /14/ /15/ /16/ /17/ /18/ /19/ /20/ /21/ /22/ /23/ /24/ /25/ /26/ /27/ /28/ /29/ /30/ /31/
18 Holt Winters No Trend: Since the data has no trend but a weekly seasonality, Holt Winter No Trend model can be used for Forecasting Model Performance Comparison Sensitivity Report Both models are doing equally well, however linear regression scores slightly better on Training & Validation data. Residuals
19 ACF Plot for Linear Regression and Holt Winters model
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