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Decathlon scales demand forecasting with Chronos-2 on AWS

Decathlon, a global sporting goods retailer, has adopted the Chronos-2 forecasting model to improve its demand prediction capabilities. The company evaluated multiple time series foundation models and selected Chronos-2 for its ability to deliver higher accuracy with lower operational complexity compared to their previous hybrid approach using Amazon SageMaker DeepAR and Holt-Winters. Decathlon now uses Chronos-2 to forecast weekly sales quantities for tens of thousands of products across multiple continents on both 12-week and 52-week horizons, running the system on AWS. AI

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Decathlon scales demand forecasting with Chronos-2 on AWS

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  1. AWS Machine Learning Blog TIER_1 English(EN) · Vianney Bruned ·

    How Decathlon runs demand forecasting at scale with Chronos-2

    Decathlon, one of the world's largest sporting goods retailers, forecasts weekly demand for tens of thousands of products across multiple continents. Learn how they deployed Chronos-2 on AWS to improve forecast accuracy by 11-15 points while cutting operational complexity and run…

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    🤖 How Decathlon runs demand forecasting at scale with Chronos-2 Decathlon, one of the world's largest sporting goods retailers, forecasts weekly demand for tens

    🤖 How Decathlon runs demand forecasting at scale with Chronos-2 Decathlon, one of the world's largest sporting goods retailers, forecasts weekly demand for tens of thousands of products across multiple continents. Learn how they deployed Chronos-2 on AWS to imp... 📰 Source: Artif…