Task $3$: Successful Adoption of a ML$-$Based Solution

Imagine you are head of a large supermarket chain which has so far worked with manual processes: Inventory in

the store and storage is tracked manually each day, orders for the next day are assembled manually, approved by

the supply chain experts and their manager before being sent out as orders to the supplier or wholesaler. This

approach is very costly as many of the employees spent most of their time working on the numerous manual

processes and despite all this effort large gaps remain in the shelves due to out$-$of$-$stock situations as well as a

high rate of waste for perishable food.

In a strive to modernize your business you have defined the use$-$case discussed in the course book $($supermarket

replenishment with a machine learning based solution$)$ with an expert Data Science provider. Now you need to

implement the use$-$case in your fictitious company. Discuss how the organization needs to change in order to

work effectively with the new machine learning$-$based solution. In particular, focus on the roles of the employees,

their current and future work as well as how they can be enabled to do that work. Show as well as how processes

have to be adapted and how decision making will change. Formulate a plan how to work with key employees and

roles as well as those who do not wish to change. Laying off workers or redundancies must be avoided in the

change process.