Promotions

DefinitionOptimal promotional campaigns on pasta
No of environments1
No of transitions~1.9M

 

The dataset consists of 118 daily time series representing the SKU-level sales from 01/01/2014 to 31/12/2018 of 4 national pasta brands. Besides univariate time series data, the quantity sold is integrated by information on the presence or the absence of a promotion.

A contextual environment corresponds to 1 store, 1 brand, 1 item and 1 margin. There is 1 store, 4 brands, between 10 and 44 items per brand, and 10 different values for the margin. Nevertheles, we define the environment as the number of store which is 1.

 

Example observationsNumber of sales for a given brand and item
Example actionsPromotion flag for a given brand and item
Example rewardSales assuming different values for the margin