Tools
+ Youare ree tous any tol and machine you have righ acces to
+ You can use any programming Language o sats sofware
Submission
+ Submision le must bea ip fe containing te CSV es "Replenishments¥" and "Withdranales These fle names are case
senate a,
+ Column Name must similar atin the Withdrawal’ an "Replenishment cr" and names of these clumns ae aso case
sensitive
+ withcaval ee (DATA ID, DATE, WITHORAAE)
+ Replenshments: (ATM, Replerishment requency, Replenishment arount)
+ There must be no mising values in both submission Fes
+ Replenishment requncy mustbe a hole number (1,2 34.5 0r6 on)
+ Yu can use any programming lnguage or statistical sofvare
Solution Checker
+ Maximum five submissions per day lloned
+ Adding comments mandatory fo se of solution checker
+ Comments il help you to refer oa partularsoltion at ater plain time
Final Submissions
+ Setting fina submission is mandatory. you dont make fal submission. your ery woul be dsquaied
+ No submissions would be entertained after the competition ends
+ Code fie emandstoy whe sting nal submiesion. For GUI based tools, upload ap le of snapehots of sep taken by ou, ee
upload cose fle
+ The code ile uploaded should be praring to your Fal submsion. we find ary escrepancy ete theta, your ety weuld be
disqualified
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Problem Statement
MANA Banks word about cost oftheir ATM operations. Can youhelp the bankto reduce the cos?
‘You are gen a historia data for AT daly cash wihdrawasalning perio). No all data was capture succesfully, And hence there are
npsin te dcaset
‘Youare expected to:
1. accurately forecast ithdranals forthe test period
2 Set replenishment poi for each ATM so tha total cost of replenishment minimumCosts Involved
The cost of ATM replenishment involes 3 components
+ Gost of efi: Refiling ATM inves cost fr example, anspotatin abo et
+ Cost of esh: Banks eam interest on mone through lending. Ary money kept in ATH snot avalabe for lending and Bank looses
Interests ont So, ver stocking ATM leads to los of revenve for Bank. Ifthe interest rate annually and if an AT has funds on
daly bass as 1000, 50, 30,1000, et. then ost of cash fr that AT for test month caleulated as (Sum unds on each day)31)*
sway
+ Stockout cost = fan ATM runs out of cash here isa penal!
cost atu NR)
Costofrefil 300
Costef Cath 1S%Annually
Costofsteckeut 1000 per day
Replenishment process:
+ Replenishment happens atthe bglonng ofthe day
+ theres cashin the ATM at thetime of repleishment then itis removed and anew box wth cash equivalent to replenishment
amount inserted in ATM
+ Stockiscaluated atthe endo ay
Replenishment process:
+ Replenishment happens atthe beginning ofthe day
+ ther is cashin the ATM at the ime of replenishment thn it is removed and anew box with ash equivalent to replenishment
“amounts inserted in ATM
+ Stocks calculated atthe end of day
You can use one ofthe replenishment strategy as follows:
strategy Action
0 do not replenish
7 days per week everytay replenish)
Feplenshatemate days (6a day. day, ec)
Replenish two specifi days per week- Thursday Monday
Replerish once weekly on every Thursday
Replenish once weekly on every Monday
Replenish once alternate week on Thursdays
example
[ATID Replenishment frequency chase from the st) Replenishment amount
SRNOKOK 3 100
(Bay [Date —_[ar¥i0 [Replerichment [Withdrawal demand [Stock atthe end af doy
May-tafsnncxooe 1000, w) 339]
22-May-14 se OI
S:may 1 sencoo00%
:May-14lseco000%
|5-may-1/s x00 000
May 14] se OKKK
May 2 sence
ns |@-May-14]seNcx000 | 000
sles es
B 818 B18i8\s |Evaluation Criteria
‘The evaluation of your submission would be done using the fling equation
‘overall cost = (Lanbdal x cost of withdrawal) + (lanbda2 x Cost of Replenishment)
here
‘Tambdat” and ambda2" are normalising parameters based on benchmark strategies
“Coat of wthdeawa isthe Cota RSE err in your withdrawal preitons,
Cost of replenishment” isthe sum of cost of stock Out + interest cost on cash n ATM + cos replenishment
Ss -
RMSE ny as
here yhatlsthe peeled ave and yis he eignal value,
‘The loner your overall cost the eters your solution.
split between Train and Test dat
‘ain datas withdrawal and End of day balance forall the ATMS from 1 Jan 2011 to 30 Api 2014
“Test datas fr period 1 May 20141031 May 2014. Cost of fst 10 days predictions are beng sein Public leaderboard, whereas next 21
ays be use for Private Leaderboard.
Final ranks would be based on Prvate Leaderboard ony