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Plan the Festival Stock

What you'll be able to do

Turn sales, receipt and shipment files and a question from the plant, logistics and finance into a replenishment memo you can defend — a forecast you scored, a safety stock with its range, a carrier comparison done like for like, and a range recommendation that respects what the contracts require.

⌁ How supply planners use AI assistants on a festival-driven product range — forecast and score against held-back weeks, size safety stock from lead-time history, compare carriers on each lane, classify the range, and send a memo that states ranges and dependencies.
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Create an account to unlock the 7 sections, the workbench, and askThili.
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Sections

1. Meet Nila Foods
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2. Forecast the Festival Weeks
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3. Set the Inventory Policy
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4. Which Lanes Cost Us Money
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5. Classify the Range
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6. The Replenishment Memo
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7. Reference: The Tool Table
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Dig deeper

🔗Forecasting: Principles and Practice, 3rd edition (Hyndman and Athanasopoulos), free online
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📄DeepAR: Probabilistic Forecasting with Autoregressive Recurrent Networks (Salinas, Flunkert and Gasthaus, 2017, arXiv:1704.04110)
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🔗Plan the Festival Stock: practice files and templates (sales, receipts, shipments, memo template, claim ledger)
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