The objective is to forecast sales in all the stores of 'Rossmann Pharmaceuticals' across several cities six weeks ahead of time. Managers in individual stores rely on their years of experience as well as their personal judgment to forecast sales.
The data team identified factors such as promotions, competition, school and state holidays, seasonality, and locality as necessary for predicting the sales across the various stores.
Build and serve an end-to-end product that delivers this prediction to analysts in the finance team.