This session presents a quite common situation for those working in food and beverage retail (FnB) and highlights interesting insights to fight waste reduction. Speaker: Stephen Kinns, CEO and Co-Founder at catsAi. *ML in Retail 2021: Webinar.

1. catsAi
www.catsai.co.uk
Our world 1st demand prediction as a
service solution helps Food and Beverage
companies save money and the
environment by optimising their operations
when is gets complex and real

2. The leadership team.
The boss is in the middle.
www.catsai.co.uk
It all started 3years ago when a friend asked
for help
Who you can't see here is Matt Forshaw (The
Alan Turing Institute) and Jane Milton (food
Industry expert)

3. along with these organisation who have
helped shape our design, thinking and vision

4. Long term
Medium term
Short term all Food and Beverage companies make
forecasts and have plans in place to match
demand but...

5. But you're still
seeing this
we also know they are wrong (food waste,
empty shelves)
so something is wrong but what !?

6. problem is it's way to complicated to
understand as there are so many things to be
taken into consideration when trying to
predict actual demand in the next 7days over
a number of sites/customers

7. Nothing is static
for very long
everything is changing, nothing stays the
same one week to the next

8. and the further away from the end customer
you are, the harder it is to understand what is
actually driving real demand

9. Local-Insight
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the only way to work it out is to go into
extreme levels of detail (data)

10. where is the end customer located, what will
the weather be like are there other things like
a train station or office near them that may
impact their business on any given day

11. and within the environment what types of
things people be looking for

12. normal working days versus the weekend is
easy to predict but thats not the only thing
you need to consider when looking at
demand

13. +
you also need to think about any promotions
going on, is there something being released
(new iphone, tv series...) that have a random
impacts from prior experience

14. needless to say the answer is in the data
somewhere as history repeats itself but
working it out when nothign seems the same
takes power.

15. The
ultimate
pattern
seekers
with
catsAi
Humans and tradtional technology can't
handle that much data but AI can

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catsAi
Near-Term Hyper-Agile Hyper-Local
Solving when
complexity gets real
our algorithm takes your data and adds
influcing data to it to find those pattern so
that we can create accurate near term
predictions

17. giving businesses the ultimate mix t
hat they need

18. LOCAL INSIGHT
and the near term demand details they need
to make sure they are ready
(aka .. have all their ducks in a row)

19. Demand Predictions as-a-service
www.catsai.co.uk
Including End-Customer environments
no complex implementation required as we
are a retrofit plug in to any company.
We only need access to data you already
hold in your sales system

20. Reduced logistics and better stock-control

21. Alongside
Existing Forecasts
Local sight of your
Customers' Customer
Measurable
business benefits
Partnerships in Chain
Suggested Orders
we recommend that you never lose full
control of a business decision so we are
designed to complement what you already
have by giving you the insights to make
better decisions

22. 5hrs
2 wks 80%
ROI Less
money back promise and
we expect you to see results
within 2 weeks
with initial results
available within 5hrs
this is how much we will
improve your current
performance by

23. Stephen Kinns
stephen@catsai.co.uk