Short shelf life, daily ordering
In grocery a two-day error costs money twice: first you overpay for the goods, then you write them off. So ordering is daily, and demand is computed from movements rather than from a sales report.
How it works today
- Ordering by habit and by eye, especially before weekends.
- Write-offs land in the sales statistics and inflate the next order.
- A supplier's minimum lot turns into an extra week of stock.
What changes
Not a hypothetical: in a five-store network a write-off document was being counted as a sale, so the system kept reordering yesterday's bin contents. After the fix, ordering in two stores fell 16% and 7% with no increase in stock-outs.
A minimum lot is treated as the supplier's constraint, not as a recommendation. If the lot exceeds a week of demand, that is visible before sending.
Where to start
The first thing we do in grocery is check what counts as demand in your data. Half the time, that is where the main error lives.
Show us one critical process. We will show how it runs here.
We look at your cycle: how an order is assembled today, who decides, where time leaks and what the system takes over.