Real Client Project Β· UAE

Fuso Demand Dashboard

Multi-model demand forecasting for a UAE commercial vehicle distributor β€” replacing manual Excel S&OP with live, decision-ready analytics.

πŸ“Š ARIMA + Holt-Winters + XGBoost πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺ UAE Automotive Market 🐍 Python Β· Power BI πŸ“‰ 18% MAPE reduction
18%MAPE Reduction
3Forecast Models Compared
24moHistorical Data Window
6moForward Horizon
12SKU Categories
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Demand Forecast vs Actual
6-month rolling forecast with confidence intervals β€” ensemble model output
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Model Performance Comparison
Automatic model selection picks the best performer per SKU category
XGBoost Ensemble
11.2%
βœ“ Best Overall

Handles non-linear seasonality and UAE market shocks

Holt-Winters ETS
13.7%
Good for Seasonal

Strong on Ramadan & National Day cyclical patterns

ARIMA (Auto)
15.4%
Good for Stable

Reliable baseline for stable commercial vehicle lines

NaΓ―ve Baseline
29.3%
Previous Method

Manual Excel estimates before dashboard deployment

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SKU-Level Forecast Summary
Top vehicle categories β€” Q3 forecast vs prior quarter actual
SKU Category Q2 Actual Q3 Forecast Change Accuracy
Canter Light Truck 847 920 +8.6%
89%
Fighter Medium Duty 312 298 -4.5%
87%
Heavy Truck (FV) 156 178 +14.1%
84%
Rosa Mini-Bus 89 104 +16.9%
91%
Parts & Accessories 2,341 2,510 +7.2%
93%
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Tech Stack
Tools and technologies used to build and deploy this dashboard
Python (pandas, statsmodels, scikit-learn) Power BI ARIMA / Auto-ARIMA Holt-Winters ETS XGBoost SQL Server Excel (XLOOKUP, Power Query) UAE Automotive Market Data

Vinayak Bhadani β€” Demand planning & S&OP in Dubai, building supply chain tooling for GCC operators. Every model here is public: the code and commit history are on GitHub.