Food Demand Forecasting

### Context

It is a meal delivery company which operates in multiple cities. They have various fulfillment centers in these cities for dispatching meal orders to their customers. The client wants you to help these centers with demand forecasting for upcoming weeks so that these centers will plan the stock of raw materials accordingly.

### Content

The replenishment of majority of raw materials is done on weekly basis and since the raw material is perishable, the procurement planning is of utmost importance. Secondly, staffing of the centers is also one area wherein accurate demand forecasts are really helpful. Given the following information, the task is to predict the demand for the next 10 weeks (Weeks: 146-155) for the center-meal combinations in the test set

### Acknowledgements

Analytics Vidhya

### Inspiration

Forecasting accurately could male the business growth in well directed direction.

该描述涉及一家在多个城市运营的餐饮配送公司。该公司在这些城市设有多个配送中心，用于向客户配送餐点订单。客户希望您协助这些配送中心进行未来几周的需求预测，以便这些中心能据此规划原材料库存。大部分原材料的补充是以周为周期进行的，由于原材料易腐，采购计划至关重要。其次，配送中心的员工配置也是一需要准确需求预测的重要领域。在给定以下信息的基础上，任务是为测试集中的中心-餐点组合预测未来10周（第146-155周）的需求。