At DoorDash, we generate supply and demand forecasts to proactively plan operations such as acquiring the right number of Dashers (delivery drivers) and adding extra pay when we anticipate low supply.
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Leveraging Causal Inference to Generate Accurate Forecasts
For any operations-intensive business, accurate forecasting is essential but is made more difficult by hard-to-measure factors that can disrupt the normal flow of business.