Smart Promotion
														Context & Background													
						The client is a multinational consumer goods company and wanted to optimize their trade promotion as part of the Local Store Marketing for various retailers across different countries.
														Project Objective													
						- Given a country; For each retailer and each product, predict number of weeks to run the promotion and at what optimal price to run.
 - Impact of different Key-Performance-Indicators(KPI) as constraints and objectives
 
														Approach													
						- All required sales data, financial data, range of price & promotion weeks and the KPI constraints are collected from the client.
 - Leveraged the best optimization tool in python to model the problem statement.
 - Given the non-linear optimization problem and complex formulation in the model, adapted the technique of warm-start to the solver.
 - Collect the required values of decision variables from the model.
 
														Business Benefits													
						- The Key-Performance-Indicators have seen a desirable improvement within minutes.
 - The optimizer model is scalable that more retailers and products can be added.