E-commerce Data Management, Trade Promotions and Content Analytics

Business Objective

Our client is a USD 50Bn+ Global Consumer Packaged Goods manufacturer in the Foods Category. E-commerce is an industry-wide growth engine. Therefore the focus was to understand how key categories are performing across e-commerce platforms and use those insights to drive growth.

As the first step towards this goal, we planned to build an e-commerce data mart using a subset of data sources, hydrating a state-of-the-art enterprise data lake, in order to achieve a multi-fold reduction in effort.

Another objective was to build a data-backed approach to drive sales by optimizing promotions run on retailers e-commerce platforms.

Solution Methodology

Established the end-to-end data pipeline to acquire, process and monitor quality of e-commerce partner data
Built a highly automated framework to harmonize data and performed data quality checks using volume/value/share benchmarks against competitors and across categories, geographies, etc.
Developed base & promo price elasticity models at PPG x e-commerce retailer level for the major categories (Total modeled sales vs. actuals had a high degree of accuracy: +/- 5% MAPE)
Built a scenario planning tool to enable e-commerce promo planning discussions

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