Challenges
- Data aggregation and labeling based on store location and presented goods
- Analysis and prediction of customer visits to points of sale depending on the local weather forecast, working days, holidays, and weekends
- Data migration from private cloud to Google Cloud
Solutions
- Automated ML training pipelines using Vertex AI
- Google Cloud deployment automation
- Quality assurance based on date and provided hyperparameters, as well as monitoring
- Model scaling and optimization for more accurate results
- Dispersed data collection and storage
Results
77k merchants are using the new platform to:
- Reduce merchant staffing and planning costs
- Increase sales of certain product categories
- Reduce customer checkout queues through improved staff scheduling
