Bart Van Der Vurst

Meat & More is a food company specialized in meat products and meals, under the brands called Buurtslagers and Bon'ap. Estimating daily demands of such a variety of products in many different locations is a challenging job to say the least. There is dependence on sales trends, region preferences, seasons, holidays, weather, BBQ peaks, promotions, marketing actions & decisions on the product range. By using AI techniques, Meat&More is able to estimate the expected sale per butcher shop and per product. In this session Charles Cuigniez & Bart Van Der Vurst (element61) explain how they have set up and maintain an AI-driven automated planning using SQL Server and Azure technology. Technologies used are SQL Server, Azure Data Factory, Azure Storage, Azure Batch, Docker, Azure Container Registry, R and PowerBI. Full project is set-up using Continuous Integration & Deployment using Azure DevOps incl. automated unit testing and ARM Template deploys to the Azure Cloud.