AI Solutions for Always-Optimized Operations

Location Optimization

October 7, 2021
CEO of Japan’s largest convenience store chain

The Question of ‘Where’

Increasingly, location is the key to unlocking hidden, and potentially valuable, insights within data. By overlaying a combination of socio-demographic, road traffic, real estate and open-street-map data, SparkBeyond Discovery helps identify the top location-based drivers, so you can understand why things happen where they do.

Applications for Location Optimization can be found everywhere, from finding optimal locations in retail site selection and solving traffic bottlenecks, to maintaining and repairing vital infrastructure. The Discovery platform augments data on legacy and existing locations with external inputs. For example, proximity to geospatial  features as tagged by OpenStreetMap may include food chains, roadways, city/rural landmarks (mall, universities, farms, etc.), as well as the presence of competition.

Based on the selected criteria, the platform’s automated hypothesis generation identifies what drives the best outcomes, producing a list of location suggestions based on novel predictors and micro-segments within the data. The outputs can also be used as a predictive model for future location selection, adapting to changing conditions and data as needed.

The post-pandemic shift in consumer behavior requires new hyperlocal patterns of opportunity and risk. Consider an Oil & Gas conglomerate that wanted to profitably expand its network of gas stations and independent convenience stores, while improving existing station revenue. Using SparkBeyond Discovery to combine multiple data sources (vehicle traffic, station configurations, external competition), the organization identified actionable performance drivers used to create:

  • Models to predict revenue potential
  • Network expansion plan to inform long-term strategy
  • Optimization of existing station configuration parameters

Geospatial analytics offers data-driven guidance for network strategy: having the right formats in the right locations, with the right offerings, is essential. For every client for whom foot traffic is relevant – be it stores, agencies, clinics, service centers, banks – AI pinpoints the best locations to yield the most optimal customer experience and business results.

This article is part of our “Always-Optimized” series exploring how businesses can harness AI technologies to drive continuous improvement across operations and strategy.
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SparkBeyond delivers AI for Always-Optimized operations. Our Always-Optimized™ platform extends Generative AI's reasoning capabilities to KPI optimization, enabling enterprises to constantly monitor performance metrics and receive AI-powered recommendations that drive measurable improvements across operations.

The Always-Optimized™ platform combines battle-tested machine learning techniques for structured data analysis with Generative AI capabilities, refined over more than a decade of enterprise deployments. Our technology enables dynamic feature engineering, automatically discovering complex patterns across disparate data sources and connecting operational metrics with contextual factors to solve the hardest challenges in customer and manufacturing operations. Since 2013, SparkBeyond has delivered over $1B in operational value for hundreds of Fortune 500 companies and partners with leading System Integrators to ensure seamless deployment across customer and manufacturing operations. Learn more at SparkBeyond.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

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