Samir Saci

Towards Data Science — How many articles have you read explaining "How to teach Data Science to Non-Technical colleagues", "How to explain Machine Learning to top management audience"? The concept behind these articles is the idea of a dichotomy between the "Tech World" and the "Non-Tech World".

Medium — You're a proud Data Scientist presenting your new solution designed using optimized code, fancy libraries, advanced linear algebra and statistical concepts. And [...] Your solution got less interest, recognition or enthusiasm from business shareholders than a simple PowerBI dashboard presented by a new intern the day before. Have you faced the frustration?

Medium — Create a free, easy-to-implement and customizable (and a bit slow :D) Distance Matrix API using Flask with a Selenium Bot deployed on Heroku My first project using GPS routing was 4 years ago. I wanted to optimize a transport plan for 1,200 trucks deliveries/month covering 50 stores from a Cross-Docking platform.

Towards Data Science — After the previous series of articles covering Warehousing Operations Optimization with Python ( Link), in this article, we'll try to use the same methodology for improving Road Transportation efficiencyby Processing Data: extract unstructured transportation records and process them to build your optimization model Improving Visibility: using Python visualization libraries to

Towards Data Science — This article is part of a series about Store Demand Forecasting. You can find the first article, where the XGBoost model implementation is explained, in this link: .

Towards Data Science — How many articles have you read stating that "Excel is Dead, long live Python", "Python is the new Excel" or "Excel became obsolete"? But when you look around you, in your team or other departments you can hardly find other colleagues using Python.

Towards Data Science — How to Use Linear Programming to Increase your Production Capacity for the Final Assembly of Luxury Products. This article is based on a real project I conducted as Supply Chain Engineer in a Logistics Company.

Towards Data Science — As a Data Scientist, if you want to use Data to be impactful in your organization, contribute to large scale operations and see your models used to implement concrete solutions: Supply Chain is the best candidate to start your Data Science Journey.

Towards Data Science — The initial dataset has been used for a Kaggle Challenge where teams were competing to design the best model to predict sales. The firstobjective here is to design a prediction model using XGBoost; this model will be used to optimize our replenishment strategy ensuring inventory optimization and reducing the number of deliveries from your Warehouse.

Towards Data Science — Objective: find the optimal algorithm for picking route creation using the Single Picker Routing Problem (SPRP) for a two-dimensional warehouse. SPRP is a specific application of the general Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) answering the question: "Given a list of storage locations and the distances between each pair of locations, what is the shortest possible route that visits each storage location and returns to the depot ?"

Towards Data Science — This article is part of a series about Warehouse Operations Optimization with Python.

Towards Data Science — Based on the actual warehouse layout, storage locations are mapped with 2-D (x, y) coordinates that will be used to measure walking distance. Every storage location is linked to a Reference using Master Data. ( For instance, reference #123129 is located in coordinate (xi, yi)).

Medium — Use Visual Basic to automate Purchase Order Creation. In SAP Retail, a Purchase Order is a commercial document indicating types, quantities, agreed prices and delivery information (locations, time) for products or services. Scenario - you want to order 10 Pcs of an article (SAP Code: 145654789 ) at the agreed price of 200$ to be delivered 20.09.2020 in WH01 by Supplier XXX (Vendor Code: 15487).

Data Driven Investor — In SAP Retail, the Material listing is the operation that links one article to one assortment. Definition: An assortment is an SAP Retail object to which materials are assigned (a process known as "listing"). This article will present a solution to automate this process.

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Data Driven Investor — Management Consulting firm Deloitte defines Robotic Process Automation (RPA) as using "software, commonly known as a 'robot', to capture and interpret existing IT applications to enable transaction processing, data manipulation and communication across multiple IT systems." Like many Automation Enthusiasts (or Lazy Engineers), I define it as "finding a way to automate boring and time-consuming tasks to create more time for working on analysis and design solutions that are adding value to your project."