A late count on the floor — the next order is already in the diary
Controlmatrixhub prepares retail demand forecasts as visual packs a merchandiser can read at a table. Charts of expected units by week, by category, and by the SKU families that actually fill the shelf.
We sit with weekly sales files from Georgian shops and chains, mark Orthodox Easter, Tbilisoba, New Year, and school-return weeks, then draw what the next horizon is likely to sell. You leave with paper, a PDF, and a walkthrough — not a login.
We had already bought the knitwear. The pack showed the second colourway cooling three weeks earlier than the first. That was the only page I took into the supplier meeting. Lela M., category buyer, women’s knit, Vake
The flagship pack is the Seasonal Demand Forecast Study: twelve to twenty-six weeks of expected unit demand, drawn so a buyer can defend an order quantity. History is read as weekly units, not as a slogan. Holidays on the Georgian calendar are plotted on the same pages as weather-sensitive categories. Markdown risk is written in sentences, next to the chart it belongs to.
We do not place purchase orders. We do not stand on your till. We prepare the figures the person who signs the order has to live with.
A single-category picture of which families carry the volume and which ones only look busy on a Saturday.
After a price cut or a gift-with-purchase, a short chart set showing borrowed sales versus extra units.
Four to eight weeks of expected units for the families that refill every week, with a note where the warehouse is already long.
A half-day at the table with your buying team, using your own last season as the example pages.
A four-store grocery group asked for a six-week replenishment brief ahead of July. History said water and ice-cream lift together. We still cut the water line after looking at the warehouse already holding two extra pallets from a cautious June buy. The walkthrough was awkward; the buyer had wanted a larger number. Mid-July stayed mild. They did not return a pallet to the distributor.