BIP-Project-sales-forecasting

Course Project

Dataset Description:

Data mining and Time series forecasting project based on a sales dataset with aggregated information for different products (SKU) throughout a 3-years time window:

Weekly data (Dec 2016 – Dec 2019) Data are available for 43 SKU (different products), prediction target restricted to 12 products

SKU | Unique identifier for the products | int

Pack | Type of pack in which the product is sold | str

Size (GM) | Product weight | float

Brand | Product brand | str

Price | Planned price of sale for the product in week w | float

POS_exposed w-1 | Number of stores in which the product was put on evidence at w-1 | int

Volume_on_promo w-1 | % Volume of product put on promo at w-1 | float

Sales w-1 | Sales of product at w-1 (lagged target) | int

Scope | Boolean that indicates SKUs in scope (target) | bool