Objectives

  • Improve forecasting accuracy from 65% to 95+% on a $700+ million support budget outlay (spent in L1/L2 customer support).
  • Build an AI solution for real-time demand forecasting to optimize and transform workforce management.
  • Build actionable insights for financial planning, resource planning, and channel investment plannings.
  • Support forecasting leads to run and fine-tune forecast every cycle.

Challenges

  • Data quality and availability; highly manual and broken data sources.
  • 50+ channels for support incidents.
  • Different forecasting algorithm across channels and geographies.
  • Delay in forecasting availability to different support and corporate functions.
  • Business value add and data science functions not in sync.

Challenges

  • Data quality and availability; highly manual and broken data sources.
  • 50+ channels for support incidents.
  • Different forecasting algorithm across channels and geographies.
  • Delay in forecasting availability to different support and corporate functions.
  • Business value add and data science functions not in sync.
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Solution

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Implemented machine learning models and ensemble techniques to address seasonality, low volume behaviour, and small dataset issues for high quality forecast.
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Unified data hub architected for curated data across global support tools using Azure Data Factory, Data Lake, and Azure SQL.
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Daily, weekly, and monthly forecast per business need using statistical models and snapshots.
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Single source of truth with refresh of actuals, budget, and generation of forecasts in sync with rhythm of business.
Cloud-hosted self-service reports and dashboards for accurate data and forecasts on a timely basis for support, operations, and finance leadership.

Technology

Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake, Synapse, Python, Spark, Lakehouse, Azure Purview, Message Hub, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Azure Blob Storage, Event Hubs, scikit-learn, H2O

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Outcome

A 100% automated, scalable engine to deliver forecast on demand.
Improved forecasting frequency from a three-month cycle to monthly.
97.6% forecasting accuracy delivered (from 65%).
120 locales supported; 40,000+ time series supported.
35% cost reduction; NPI improved by 45%.
97% automated anomalies engine.
99.7% platform availability.

DevOps Engineer

Industry experience: 10 Years
Location: Pune

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