For wholesale and distribution

A full-time analyst for every branch, without the hire.

For independent wholesalers and distributors, one branch to twenty. Vendor costs, customer accounts and inventory, from the exports you already run.

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Aisles of pallet racking in a distribution warehouse

Found in the first weeks at a stone wholesaler

Founding Partner, natural and engineered stone, several states.

Every morning, around 7 AM

Purchasing, sales and the warehouse, read together.

Before

Monday: the office spends the morning building it.

Profit & loss · March

All locations

Net sales612,004
COGS(376,881)
Gross profit235,123
Payroll(170,742)
Occupancy(28,410)
Operating income35,971

printed for the Monday meeting

daily_sales_by_location.csv

date,location,net_sales

3/14,North,71204.18

3/14,Harbor,48311.90

3/14,West,23093.55

3/13,North,68712.40

3/13,Harbor,45980.02

… 1,284 more rows

This is the file. That is all we need.

After

Monday: it was in your inbox at 6:58.

From: DataMine AI <[email protected]> · 6:58 AM

Good morning, Harbor Line Distribution

Yesterday's revenue

$142,610

▲ 1.9% vs the same day last week

3 things worth your attention

3 lines slipping

Vendor increases that never reached your price list

$52,700 aging

One rep’s open orders are not converting

$95,000 tied up

Stock at the North branch has stopped moving

If you do one thing today

Fix the three lines on the price list. Every order at the old price is the vendor’s increase coming out of your margin.

Checked 8 automines.

Illustrative numbers.

  1. Vendor price changes that never reached your pricing

    A product line’s margin running below its own normal for weeks, and whether cost, price or mix moved.

  2. Open orders that aren’t converting, by rep

    The rep or product line whose open orders have aged past the team’s normal, and how much is stuck in them.

  3. Products that sit, and one branch out of line

    Stock with no orders against it for months and, with four or more branches, the one whose margin, labor or returns moved away from the others.

And when you want to know something

Ask it the way you’d ask your office.

  • → Which of my top ten customers are buying less than last quarter?
  • → What are we spending with each vendor, and where is cost creeping up?
  • → How far are we from each vendor’s rebate tier?
  • → Which orders shipped short this week, and which products were behind them?
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Which of my top ten customers are buying less than last quarter?

DataMine

Two of them. Your second-largest account ordered 28% less over the last six weeks, all of it in one product family they used to buy every month. The other is down 11%, spread evenly.

Account 2 of 10 −28%
Account 7 of 10 −11%
The other eight +3%

From your sales-by-customer export, this quarter against last.

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