Forecasting Use Cases
Financial forecasting, investor relations
Industry: Enterprise software
Functional Group: Corporate CFO
Service: Using corporate accounting data, Machine Learning forecasting models improved the accuracy and timeliness of financial forecasts used for quarterly stockholder reports, resulting in improved shareholder communications and more time for strategic planning.
Forecasting and Budgeting consolidation in the Cloud
Industry: Telecommunications
Functional group: Finance & Budgeting, multinational corporation
Service: Forecasting and budgeting by centralizing and consolidating data as a Cloud service across functional groups reduced overall workload, by improving integration across subsidiaries.
Real-time Auto-Scaling Deployment Decision
Industry: Cloud software
Functional Group: Product Engineering
Service: Cloud service provider reported customer website failure under load. Provider asked whether or not to implement auto-scaling – dynamic adjustment of computer resources based on predicted demand. Prediction models showed auto-scaling optimization had potential savings of $500K/year, but a decision analysis of alternatives showed the ROI did not justify auto-scaling.
Supply Chain Use Cases
Real-time stock management: Estimating resources on-hand to meet random “walk-in” demand
Industry: Fast food
Functional Group: CTO
Service: How many items should be ready-made? Too many - cold and wasted. Too few - lost revenue. Built a real time predition model that trades off lost revenue with cost of discarded goods, to maximize profit.
Sizing Seasonal Agricultural Product Shipping Requirements
Industry: Freight Transportation Arrangement Industry
Functional Group: Operations
Service: Forecasted customer demand by analyzing historical data on freight category, destination, and quantity. Client used forecast to match suppliers with customers in ship provisioning, maximizing utilization by reducing the number of freight transportation vessels.
Durable goods yield management to free up inventory capacity
Industry: Consumer Electronics, Computer Hardware
Functional Group: Finance & Accounting Operations
Service: Revenue optimization by yield management to optimize inventory turnover. Generated “markdown” models to estimate price elasticity of retail hardware that was used by client to set prices and quotas for existing stock resulting in reduction of inventory of older units, allowing room for new ones.
Simulations of Electronic Health Records histories for Hospital management
Industry: Healthcare
Functional Group: Hospital Finance and Strategic Planning
Service: Estimating hospital bed capacity needs, e.g. number of hospital beds, by detailed simulation of population health trends. Factored in demographics, predicted disease prevalence and seasonal trends.
Root-cause Analysis Use Cases
Semiconductor Fab Root cause fault analysis
Industry: Semiconductor manufacturing (fabrication plant)
Functional Group: Lean Manufacturing Operations
Service: Piloted a causal model for ranking the source of equipment faults by their probability. Built an interactive intelligent diagnostic model that codified the knowledge of repair experts, resulting in reduced level of expertise needed. Novel AI approach for on-the-fly model adjustment and learning during diagnostic sessions. Pilot deployment reduced down time, reducing bottlenecks, and increasing throughput worth on the order of a few million dollars incremental revenue per year.
Diagnosing “OnTime and In Full” (OTIF) Failure Root Causes
Industry: Food service disposable and packaging, MNC
Functional Group: Corporate Accounting
Service: Developed a model from existing production data to predict OTIF that revealed that OTIF failures did not originate in production. Existing production scheduling was driven to avoid presumed shortages in output, resulting in excess inventory sitting in warehouses. Based on exploratory analyses advised the firm to adopt JIT (Just-In-Time manufacturing) to optimize inventory management.
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