Lyft, Inc.

Target Brands, Inc.

Zeynep Erkin Baz

Dor Levi

Jatin Chopra

Asif Haque

Snir Kodesh

Limin Shen

Charlie Lin

Kevin Fan

Yuanyuan Pao

Tikhon Jelvis

Sayon Majumdar

Saibal Bhattacharya

Yang Liu

Duane Sizemore

Adam Riggall

Peter Kim

Omar N Jabri

Methods and systems for forecasting demand for items across multiple channels are disclosed. In some implementations, multi-channel demand forecasting may be performed on a per-item, per-location basis, by selectively generating item-location forecasts for each item and location within a supply chain for each channel, or disaggregating a chain level forecast on a per-item basis to each location. Particular selection of an appropriate model, and selective training of models, allows for efficient computation of such forecasts across a large supply chain with thousands of locations and hundreds of thousands, or millions, of items for which forecasts are generated.

Multi-channel demand planning for inventory planning and control

Embodiments provide techniques, including systems and methods, for determining an estimated target pickup location for a corresponding transport request at a particular location, such as associated with a particular geohash. A requestor may send a request that is associated with a location that does not reflect the requestor's intent regarding where they would like to be met by the provider (i.e., 'picked up'). GPS inaccuracies may cause the request location to inaccurately indicate where the requestor will be; for example, the request location may be inside a building while the requestor is waiting on a curb around a far side of the building. The target pickup location allows for a requestor and a provider to meet more efficiently, reducing delay for the provider and improving the efficiency of the system by preventing provider system resources from being taken from other service areas and decreasing provider downtime upon matching.

Geohash-related location predictions

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Zeynep Erkin Baz