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> Lifvs uses artificial intelligence to work out what stock to order for each store The "AI" is an if test if stock < stock_threshold: buy_more(stock)
by ejolto 6y ago
> Lifvs uses artificial intelligence to work out what stock to order for each store
The "AI" is an if test
if stock < stock_threshold:
buy_more(stock)
- aloisdg 6y agoYou can use statistics to determine what can of stock you should favor (e.g. winter clothes vs summer clothes) and the quantity (more Christmas food in December less after). If you have enough data from previous years or a good heuristics, you can start this one easily. Even a plain old markov chains could help.
- m12k 6y agoI'm stunned that week after week, I'll come across the same shelf, with one variant of a thing sold out by midweek, and the unpopular variant next to it virtually untouched, as always. The amount of statistics or programming required to prevent this, and balance the stock to what the market shows that it wants, is fairly trivial, and yet my local supermarket has failed to do so for several decades now.
- ceejayoz 6y agoI had a good chuckle in March of last year when I realized the shelves had plenty of "all natural, non-toxic cleaner" sort of products during the run on Clorox wipes and bleach.
- sct202 6y agoThe on hand inventory is most likely wrong in the system, so it probably thinks there are phantom units available. This happens a lot with products that could have been lost, stolen or expired and the system was not updated.