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.