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When You Can’t Join, Use DeepMatch
At Ikigai, we developed DeepMatch. An ML solution that takes datasets as inputs, attempts to learn the relationship between the columns of datasets and then uses “similarities” between rows to “stitch”.
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What is Data Cleansing?
Read this blog to learn about what is considered clean data and how to use a data cleansing tools to automate data scrubbing.
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What is Business Intelligence?
Business intelligence is a broad term that encompasses procedures, infrastructure, tools and data sets used to make strategic business decisions.
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Top Data Influencers to Follow
Not only is following and engaging with influential experts an excellent strategy for staying on top of things, but it can also be a rewarding form of networking. You'll get to know fifteen experts who are influencing public opinion within their field of data expertise.
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We Know How Much Money You Lost In Sales This Year
Ikigai Labs can identify lost sales and help optimize purchasing decisions while minimizing inventory cost. Learn how here.
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Vaccine Sentiments
Twitter and other social media platforms have been viewed as an effective tool for health research and are rich with metadata. However, the process of extracting data from online sources, cleaning and transforming it, and creating interactive dashboards is a laborious task. Ikigai makes it easy.
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The Winter Is Not Coming
Weather data is essential to scenario analysis in demand planning because it provides valuable information about past and current weather conditions. In this blog we'll discuss how this data can be used to develop scenarios and assess their potential impact on future demand.
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Three Technologies Shaping Demand Planning
The emergence of new technology is one of the primary elements driving the evolution of demand planning. Three technologies influencing how firms approach demand planning include artificial intelligence (AI), time series forecasting, and scenario analysis. These technologies can dramatically enhance forecasting precision, operational effectiveness, and decision-making.
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The Essential Guide to Reducing Waste in Food and Beverage Supply Chains
Learn how to reduce waste and increase efficiency in your food and beverage supply chain with our Essential Guide. Discover the benefits of supply chain optimization and automation, and gain insights into the best practices for waste reduction in this must-read blog post.
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Sustainability in the Supply Chain: How to Make a Positive Impact
Learn how sustainable supply chains can help businesses become more profitable and customers' choice in the long term and how analytics can help.
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Returns Management in Retail: Optimizing the Process with Technology and Best Practices
Returns management is not just about processing returned items. It's about having a technology-enabled, effective returns process that can minimize the impact of returns on your business while improving customer satisfaction and retention.
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Purchase Order Automation
Manage your inventory within clicks with Ikigai. With the simple acquisition of our Supply Chain template, data operators can quickly familiarize themselves with our flexible inventory management dashboard. Read how here.
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Promotional Planning: 3 Things To Keep In Mind
In this blog, we will discuss the role of demand forecasting in effective promotion planning and the significance of promotions in driving demand. We will discuss best practices in forecasting promotions and strategies for managing promotional demand spikes. It'll help you to maximize your promotions' effectiveness and increase your bottom line by the end of this blog.
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Planning for short life cycle products
Due to client demand and intense competition, continuous new product creation is crucial for companies. Such advancements have shortened product life cycles. Therefore supply chain planning should closely monitor product sales to mitigate economic risk. However, firms that make items with a short life cycle find it challenging to forecast and change production plans for such products.
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Play Dr. Strange and Make Winning Decisions in Complex Business Applications Every Day
The Time Stone is a myth, but Ikigai is as close as one can get to a tool that helps you forecast the future and uncover all potential scenarios. Business decision-makers need their own Time Stone that is real, effective, and affordable-–enter Ikigai.
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Low-Code Scalable, Hosted D2i Apps: Data-Driven Interactive Dashboards
Build product prototypes in a low-code environment without a team. Learn more here!
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Intelligent Automation for Data Biz Operators
Modern organizations can outrun their competition by enabling their data biz operators to help make data-intensive operational decisions with the ease of spreadsheets.
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If AI Skills Are Not on Your Resume, You’re Already Behind
What are the factors that can help secure your career? We spoke with Devavrat Shah, Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Statistics and AI at MIT, who often teaches business executives about AI.
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Ikigai’s No-Code AI Platform
By viewing data as a graph, Ikigai provides DeepMatch, which attempts to learn the relationship between columns of a dataset and use it to further match rows.
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How to Choose the Best Model for Time Series Forecasting: ARIMA, Prophet, or mSSa
Time series forecasting is the process of analyzing time series data using statistical methods and modeling for predictions that guide decision-making. Let's cover ARIMA, Prophet, and mSSa.
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How Santa is using demand forecasting to plan the timely delivery of gifts
Unlike major companies managed by supply chain professionals, Santa Claus is one individual who has never had a riot-like situation. Not only can he know when you are asleep to deliver at the right time, but he can correctly predict demand to guarantee that everyone receives the Christmas gifts they wish (at least with an impressive hit rate). For this reason, Mr. Claus is regarded as an industry leader in supply chain management.
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How predictive analytics can help during the flu season
Predictive analytics is all about getting insights, deriving conclusions, and making grounded decisions with data. It's fast becoming a useful tool for healthcare companies and organizations to identify risks and make better business decisions
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Expert Strategies for Effectively Managing Complex Food and Beverage Supply Chains
Discover how supply chain optimization can help food and beverage manufacturers streamline their operations, reduce costs, improve food safety, and meet customer demand. Our latest blog post explores the benefits of supply chain optimization and strategies for implementing it in the industry.
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Four Tips To Plan Demand In The Uncertain World
The world of the global supply chain has transformed drastically post-COVID-19. In supply chain terms, it was a global demand shock followed by a supply shock.
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Ikigai Labs Serves Interactive AI Workflows at Scale with Ray Serve
We are excited to evolve Ikigai's platform even further, alongside the Ray and Ray Serve.
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Forecasting with Limited Historical Data
A Novel Method that is Revolutionizing Demand Planning. Ikigai makes forecasting on limited data available at scale in a low code manner.
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Five Top Supply-Chain Strategies to Implement in 2023
This blog discusses the five top supply chain strategies businesses should consider implementing in 2023. By implementing these strategies, businesses can improve their supply chain operations, adapt to changing market demands, and position themselves for success in the new year.
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Data, Operations, AI, and People [DOAP] Podcast: Munther Dahleh
CTO and co-founder Devavrat Shah chats with Munther Dahleh — the founding director of IDSS at MIT. Listen to their podcast now.
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Data, Operations, AI, and People [DOAP] Podcast: Ashu Garg
CEO and co-founder Vinayak Ramesh chats with Ashu Garg — GP at Foundation Capital as well as an Ikigai Labs investor and board member.
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Create Your Next Data Visualization in 6 Steps
Treemaps are a great way of visualizing how the individual parts of a hierarchically structured data set make up a whole. Learn how to create one on Ikigai here!
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9 Practical Tips For Building Consensus In S&OP
In this blog we will discuss the Importance of Collaboration and Consensus, how can an effective S&OP help foster collaboration & consensus inside and outside the organization, and 9 practical tips for building consensus in S&OP
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Automation of Data Operations
Ikigai can generate daily purchase orders and send them automatically or after human approval to the desired downstream system. Read more here.
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Approaching HIPAA Compliance
Ikigai utilizes a variety of tools and services to maintain HIPAA compliance in our cloud-native AI platform for data operators. More info here.
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AI in Supply Chain: Four Things to Prioritize
Management of supply networks has become significantly more complicated in recent years, driving supply chain professionals to explore AI-powered tools. Read this blog to learn about four innovations to prioritize.
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3 Tips to Improve Your Time Series Forecast
Time series forecasting is critical support for all levels of business strategy, from managing inventory to responding to customer demand. Read this blog to understand the reasons underlying poor forecasting models and take steps to improve their function.
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AI for the People, by the People
Ikigai organized its first ever case competition on the Ikigai product, which is an end-to-end AI-powered platform for data operations, together with Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology.
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A Guide to Conducting Scenario Analysis with Time Series Forecasting
Time series data has become an important data source in many application domains. Most companies and organizations strongly rely on this data for critical tasks like decision-making, planning, predictions, and analytics in general. While all these tasks generally focus on actual data representing organization and business processes, applying them to alternative scenarios is desirable to prepare for developments that diverge from expectations or assess the robustness of current strategies. This tutorial will describe how to do scenario analysis with time series forecasting.
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A Real Connection
Through our data connectors, users have access to over 130 sources of data from within the Ikigai platform.
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2022 Black Friday faced major Supply Chain-Related Issues - Time To Prepare For Black Friday 2023
022 Black Friday brought multiple supply chain-related issues, keeping the companies busy and spending higher for the stocks they wanted. In contrast, some ordered too much too early and were left with a higher inventory for liquidation. Nonetheless, there is much more to supply chain preparation for these key holiday seasons than just buying additional stock in advance.
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6 Tips to Prepare Your Data for Demand Forecasting
Before companies can get any valuable insights from their data, the data needs to be adequately cleansed, formatted and prepared to be ingested, so as to provide the best possible informational value. In this tutorial you will be going through 6 tips to prepare your data for demand forecasting.
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8 Tips for Creating Engaging Data Visualizations
Explore best practices for creating data visualizations. They’ll help you streamline your visualization process, create engaging visualizations, and avoid confused audiences.
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11 Unique Designs to Inspire Your Next Dashboard
You use dashboards every day, whether you realize it or not. In this roundup, you'll learn about eleven cool and unique dashboards, and what made each one special.
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