Use case: Plastic price hedging and supply chain / inventory optimization
Context:
An FMCG company, producing plastic-based products, needed a hedging strategy against the price of plastic to optimize profitability as well as optimize its manufacturing processes and supply chain in Vietnam.
Objective:
Accompany our client with quantitative recommendations and implementation possibilities.
Technologies:
- Python
- Web scraping and data mining
Solution:
A dashboard aggregating all the relevant information for decision making as well as a part-time placement of one of our data scientists within the company to assist with ad-hoc analysis.