{"id":8159,"date":"2016-09-22T12:35:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T16:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=8159"},"modified":"2016-09-22T16:15:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T20:15:38","slug":"predictive-fulfillment-excerpt-contagious-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/predictive-fulfillment-excerpt-contagious-magazine\/8159\/","title":{"rendered":"Predictive Fulfillment &#8211; Excerpt from Contagious Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"With the ever-rising expectation of getting whatever we want, whenever we want it, companies are no longer waiting for orders to be placed. Instead, they are moving towards predictive fulfillment \u2013 using data and machine learning to foresee what their customers will buy and when, so they can send it to them pre-emptively. Predicting the future used to be the preserve of prophets or fairground fortune tellers. Now, businesses are getting in on the act. Companies across different sectors are using machine learning to forecast what people are going to buy and when they are going to buy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/predictive-fulfillment-excerpt-contagious-magazine\/8159\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the ever-rising expectation of getting whatever we want, whenever we want it, companies are no longer waiting for orders to be placed. Instead, they are moving towards predictive fulfillment \u2013 using data and machine learning to foresee what their customers will buy and when, so they can send it to them pre-emptively. Predicting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8161,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159\/revisions\/8161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}