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❖ A brief overview of the project

Project title: To Understand Current Modern Retail
Forecasting Process, Identify Gaps and Implement an End-to-
End Framework to Improve Modern Retail Forecasting at an
SKU Depot level.

Project Description/Objective:

• Understand the current forecasting process across the
accounts in modern retail channel
• Identify Gaps and come up with recommendations
• Suggest an end-to-end framework which facilitates to
improve the forecast accuracy at SKU-Depot level.

S PARTHASARADHI ❖ How is the normal day at the internship?
I was based out of Mumbai during my internship period.
P&G
Usually I used to reach office by 8:30 am. Regular employees
________________________________________ reach office by 10am. By the time people reach office I used to

schedule the connects and plan the to do things for the day.
GENERAL INFORMATION Rest of the day it is all about execution of your plans for the

day. Most of the time in the office when people are available,
Batch: PGDIM 25
I used to connect with my stakeholders to gather data and
BTech: Amrita, Coimbatore understand their perspectives. During the evening hours, I
used to work on the solution using the data gathered.
Stream: ECE

Work Ex: L&T

❖ What are the challenges faced during Internship?

One of the major challenges that I have faced during internship is to buy time from people in the company. You

are given two months of time to understand the problem, understand the culture of the company, identify right

stakeholders, gather data and suggest a solution which is feasible to respective stakeholders in the company.

Since you will be in a totally new environment, given a short period of time and the expected output, regular

interaction with stakeholders will be a key to success. But the constraint here is that they will be already loaded
with their regular work. It is not that they do not want to give you the time, but you need to strategize a bit and
get sometime from them to interact. When people are too busy during working hours and if their calendar is
totally blocked, I used to connect with people during their lunch and tea breaks or join them during their drive
back to home.

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