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Predictive Research Inc.,

Predictive Research Inc.,

Predict & Benefit

Confidential: Renowned Ecommerce site located in US.

Client needed a sales strategy for elevating his product

sales and increase profit by getting more customers. Then cluster

the products into premium and standard, based on good impact

towards the customer’s perspective. To find an appropriate way

for delivering orders in time, by analysing the product sales,

orders came and profit obtained. The client main criteria was to

use a database with high transaction safety

We delivered the graphical representation of individual

product sales, profit and orders. The MongoDB by default prefers

high insert rate over transaction safety. If you need to load tons of

data lines with a low business value for each one, MongoDB

should fit.

The project has completed successfully and delivered in

time, we got a good feedback from the client saying the business

has become better.

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Prologue

The main objective of processing the consumer sales data is to explore the insights (Sales & Profit) from the consumer sales data using MongoDB Big-Data processing database. The relationship between consumer and company is one of the prominent determinants of the progress of any company.

Introduction to Consumer Data

Manufacturer and marketer of health, beauty products, home and electronic appliances, receive a constant stream of downstream data from retail consumers and market research partners. To drive sales, the company's consumer insights and category management team is charged to produce in-depth reports for more product categories based on the data. Consumer raw data contains all the parameters like consumer id, order id, product id, order category, product sales, order priority, profit etc. Out of all the parameters, we have to analyse properly the main parameters that affecting on the product sales & profit of the company.

Handling the Data

Here, we used a MongoDB database to process the consumer sales data. MongoDB is

an open source, scalable, high-performance, schema-free, cross-platform document-oriented

database system classified as a "No-SQL" database. Map Reduce can be used for batch processing of data and aggregation operations. MongoDB requires a data folder to store its files. We will take the unstructured data into excel and convert it into csv file format. Once csv file is ready, we will convert the csv data into JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) Format. Because the MongoDB database is a Document-Oriented Database, it takes only JSON format data in the form of documents. And we will create a new collection to put the documents in the collection and MongoDB will process, visualize the documents and performs the Map-Reduce functions on the collection to aggregate the results. The Fig. (a) Below shows the process of handling the data.

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Major Insights to be Found-out

After analysing and processing the consumer raw data, we get insights of consumer sales and also behaviour of the consumer and following are the few of insights came across the process,

1. Total number of product sales. 2. Total number of Orders. 3. Profit to the company.

Methodology

Here, first we create the database and new collection to store the documents in the collection and next we take the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) converted data and import into the newly created MongoDB database collection. To process the data systematically, we perform data visualization by mapping the data using MongoDB Map function and next we perform the Reduce or count operation using MongoDB Reduce function to aggregate the counts and filter the data. Next, we will process the data and processed result will put into the production environment. The below Fig. (b) Shows MongoDB database model.

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MongoDB Queries

MongoDB queries are Ad hoc, rich and document-based queries. MongoDB supports search by field, range queries, regular expression searches. Queries can return specific fields of documents and also includes user-defined JavaScript functions.

Results

The input selected was consumer sales data after processing with our database; the results we obtained for individual products are their total number of sales and profit. The results are systematic and anybody can clearly understand the sales and profit. Any number of parameters can be added to the process to analyse the data. Also, based on this result, we can maintain good long-term relationships with consumers.

First, we mapped ( tokenize, filter & count) the entire data based on the data parameters like order id, order date, order priority, order quantity, order price, product category, product sub category and consumer segments and then we reduced or aggregated the mapped data to further processing the data.

Following charts shows the results we obtained after processing the consumer sales data.

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2. The Fig. (e) & (f) shows total number of sales based on the product categories.

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4. The Fig. (i) & (j) shows total number of sales based on the consumer segments.

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Conclusion

We developed a solution that centralized the company’s sales data, including product, market, field/territory and consumer information. The new solution also allowed the company to develop dynamic data sets to display a summary of market trends using real-time data. The consumer information provided was also key to this solution. Within the interface, sales people can now access all of their key consumer information.

Consumer Delight

The aim of sales and marketing is to know and understand and satisfy the consumer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. From this methodology, consumer with ease can discover number of products which are in good sales and the trending products and the profit generated from a particular product. Those consumers who are in ambiguity to select a particular product will get clear idea about the product.

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