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Sales Visualization: Open Produce
The Challenge
A local, independent grocery store had a wealth of information but no way to use it. They had megabytes of sales data going back for years, but they lacked any synthesis tools which would allow them to understand the patterns and the details of their business.
Our Solution
We worked with the managers and other staff to establish which metrics would be most helpful, and wrote a collection of web tools to streamline their business processes. Now they can visualize sales by time of day, day of week, and see and predict seasonal variations. They share some of this information with their customers real time on their website. At the same time, we wrote them a series of inventory management tools to streamline their ordering process.
Results
Open Produce stopped making business decisions in the blind and now can literally see what works and what doesn’t. They use this information to set their hours of operation, ensure sufficient staff at peak times, and predict their cash flow needs during their seasonal slumps.