Grocery retail chain
How a twelve-store chain went from hand-built weekly reports to seeing each store's sales the same day.
The challenge
Sales scattered across spreadsheets and reports arriving a week late
The solution
Hourly loads from the points of sale plus a dashboard per store and for management
How we did it
We mapped the sources across all twelve stores and scheduled hourly loads from the points of sale, stock records and supplier orders. Every load runs through validation checks before it is published, so an incomplete reading never reaches the screen. On top of that we defined the sales, margin and stock-out metrics with a single formula for the whole chain. Each store manager gets a screen showing the day so far and the comparison with the same week last year, while head office works from the consolidated view of all twelve. Users move from chain total to a single product in three clicks, and the store managers tested the screens before rollout.
Results
Project timeline
Source inventory across the twelve stores
Hourly loads with validation checks
Dashboard for each store manager
Consolidated management view and training
Testimonial
“We used to find stock problems on Friday, when it was already too late. We explained it once and the screen they delivered was already looking in the right place.”
Services used
Data ingestion & integration
We connect the systems where your information already lives and bring it into one place, automatically and repeatably.
Data model & metrics
We define your business metrics once, so everyone is talking about the same number.
Dashboards & visualization
We design screens that answer specific questions: what happened, where, and what to look at now.