Demand Forecasting

Objective

A chain store wants a machine learning project for a 3-month demand forecast for 10 different stores and 50 different products.

About Dataset

This dataset is presented to test different time series techniques. A store chain's 5-year data includes information on 10 different stores and 50 different products.

Variables

• date – Date of sales data (No holiday effects or store closures.)
• Store – Store ID (Unique number for each store)
• Item – Product ID (Unique number for each product)
• Sales – Number of items sold (The number of items sold from a particular store on a given date)