Your client is a meal delivery company that operates in multiple cities. They have various fulfilment centres in these cities for dispatching meal orders to their customers. The client wants to help these centres with demand forecasting for upcoming weeks so that these centres will plan the stock of raw materials accordingly.
The replenishment of most raw materials is done on a weekly basis and since the raw material is perishable, procurement planning is of utmost importance. Secondly, staffing of the centres is also one area wherein accurate demand forecasts are really helpful. We have the below information with us in the form of 3 different datasets:
- Historical data of demand for a product-centre combination
- Product (Meal) features such as category, sub-category, current price, and discount
- Information for fulfilment centres like centre area, city information, etc.
The dataset required has been provided along with this document.