Assessing Batch and Online Learning for Delivery in Full and On Time Predictions

Improving results by optimizing process execution is one objective of major companies. For these corporations, the main point for achieving better results is the good maintenance of supply chain management. The most important supply chain metric is Delivery in Full and On Time (DIFOT). DIFOT measures how well a supply chain delivers value to the customer. In this work, we bring forward an analysis of DIFOT prediction from large Brazilian food company. More specifically, we compare a batch and online learning algorithm for DIFOT prediction and depict why the latter is suitable for this problem. Furthermore, we report a feature drift analysis to identify whether there are considerable shifts along with the dataset timespan. As a byproduct of this research, we make the dataset used in this analysis publicly available for future research in DIFOT prediction.