What buyers said after the walkthrough
These are comments from people who sat with a pack and then signed, or refused, an order. They mention leftover units, late deliveries, and one chart that arrived a week later than promised.
The Easter overlay on the chocolate family was the page I needed. We had treated last year’s spike as a new baseline. It was the holiday table, and it fell off the week after.
I asked for a replenishment brief on water and they cut my number because the warehouse was already long. I did not like hearing it. July was cooler than the file suggested, so the cut was right.
The promotional review showed we had pulled April sales into March with a gift-with-purchase. I still ran a smaller version at Easter; the leftover was half of last year, not zero.
Useful maps for the biscuit aisle. The PDF used a type size that was hard on a phone; we printed it. Once it was on paper the slow families were obvious.
The briefing with Nino used our own autumn file. Two of the juniors had never seen weekday unit counts. They still talk about the Tuesday that looked like a failure and was only a delivery delay.
Knitwear, Vake, a second colourway
A women’s knit buyer in Vake sent two years of weekly units for crew and cardigan families. The seasonal pack showed the second colourway cooling three weeks before the first. She had already placed a deposit with the mill. The walkthrough did not cancel the order; it reduced the second colourway and moved the remainder into a later delivery. March leftover was a table of leftovers, not a rail of them. She still thinks we were slow to return the draft charts — five days instead of the three she had wanted — and she is right about the calendar.
Didube grocery, bottled water
Four stores, a standing water order, a cautious June that had already filled a corner of the warehouse. The replenishment brief wrote the extra pallets on the same line as the July forecast. The buyer wanted a larger number for a heat story that is often true in Tbilisi. Mid-July stayed mild. No pallet went back to the distributor. The covering note is now pinned next to the Monday order sheet.