An overview of ALDI SOUTH's business, including its presence in 11 countries, 6,900 stores, and significant growth in the US market.
ALDI is investing heavily in its data and analytics unit (IDA) to leverage vast amounts of store data and create business value.
The cloud data lake is built on a simplified set of components like Spark and blob storage, using a satellite concept to isolate team resources and prevent the "noisy neighbor" problem.
Data is processed through bronze, silver, and gold layers to ensure quality and add business context, with a core system managing data exchange between satellites.
The end-to-end process for "special buys" involves a year-long cycle of forecasting, ordering, allocating to regions and stores, and managing markdowns.
A dedicated data satellite prepares shared sales data, which is then consumed by separate use case satellites for ordering, allocation, and markdown models.
The technical stack includes an orchestrator, GitLab for CI/CD, PySpark for distributed data processing, and MLflow for experiment tracking and model serving.
ALDI is rapidly expanding its data teams, hiring for roles like data engineers and scientists within an agile environment to quickly deliver and roll out new solutions.
58:21Julian Joseph
43:47Dubravko Dolic & Hüdaverdi Cakir
30:49Marin Niehues
44:40Hauke Brammer
45:58Andreas Christian
27:23Dora Petrella
24:07Mike Butcher, Jürgen Müller, Katrin Lehmann & Tobias Regenfuss
30:48Enrico La Torre & Renato Dompieri Beltrão
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Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.
ALDI SÜD Dienstleistungs-GmbH & Co. oHG
Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
August-Wilhelm Scheer Institut für digitale Produkte und Prozesse gGmbH
