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Building A Product Assortment Recommendation Engine

Amid the increasingly competitive brewing industry, the ability of retailers and brewers to provide optimal product assortments for their consumers has become a key goal for business stakeholders. Consumer trends, regional heterogeneities and massive product portfolios combine to scale the complexity of assortment selection. At AB InBev, we approach this selection problem through a two-step method rooted in statistical learning techniques. First, regression models and collaborative filtering are used to predict product demand in partnering retailers. The second step involves robust optimization techniques to recommend a set of products that enhance business-specified performance indicators, including retailer revenue and product market share. With the ultimate goal of scaling our approach to over 100k brick-and-mortar retailers across the United States and online platforms, we have implemented our algorithms in custom-built Python libraries using Apache Spark. We package and deploy production versions of Python wheels to a hosted repository for installation to production infrastructure. To orchestrate the execution of these processes at scale, we use a combination of the Databricks API, Azure App Configuration, Azure Functions, Azure Event Grid and some custom-built utilities to deploy the production wheels to on-demand and interactive Databricks clusters. From there, we monitor execution with Azure Application Insights and log evaluation metrics to Databricks Delta tables on ADLS. To create a full-fledged product and deliver value to customers, we built a custom web application using React and GraphQL which allows users to request assortment recommendations in a self-service, ad-hoc fashion. Connect with us: Website: https://databricks.com Facebook:   / databricksinc   Twitter:   / databricks   LinkedIn:   / databricks   Instagram:   / databricksinc   Databricks is proud to announce that Gartner has named us a Leader in both the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems and the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. Download the reports here. https://databricks.com/databricks-nam...