Exactly where your forecast is costing you money, down to the SKU and the pound.
- Worked from your own sales and stock data, not a generic health check
- Every forecast that was trusted and wrong, costed in pounds
- A prioritised action list and a 90 day roadmap you can act on
Illustrative. A real report names your SKUs, your dates and your numbers.
What this actually is
A forecast only becomes expensive when somebody believes it. The costly mistakes in a product business almost never come from not having a number. They come from having a number, trusting it, and finding out a quarter later that nobody was checking.
The Intelligence Audit works from your actual sales history, stock position and forecast data. We review what was forecast against what really happened, hunt specifically for the points where a number was accepted without a human sense check, and put a pound figure against each one. Stockouts and dead stock are both costed, because both are cash you no longer have.
What comes back is a written report naming your SKUs and your numbers, ranked by what to deal with first, plus a clear recommendation on which delivery path fits your business: building the oversight layer around forecasting you already run, or having us produce the forecast for you instead.
What's included
- Intake of your sales history, stock position and forecast data
- Forecast accuracy reviewed against what actually happened
- Every instance where a forecast was trusted and wrong, identified
- Each of those instances costed in pounds rather than described
- Dead stock and stockout exposure quantified across your range
- A SKU priority action list, ranked by what to deal with first
- A 90 day roadmap setting out the order the fixes should happen in
- An operational chaos score benchmarking where you sit today
- A written recommendation on which delivery mode fits, and why
- A call to walk through the findings and agree the first move
How it runs, start to finish
Buy or book
Pay £500 and start straight away, or book a call first if you would rather talk it through before committing.
Send your data
We tell you exactly which exports we need and what format they should be in. No guessing.
Analysis
We review accuracy against outcomes, isolate the costly calls, and put a pound figure on each one.
Report
Your written report arrives within days of your data landing, with the action list and roadmap included.
Walkthrough
We talk it through on a call, so you finish knowing exactly what to do first.
Is this right for you?
- You suspect your forecasting is wrong somewhere, but you cannot point at where.
- You run a forecasting tool and have never checked whether its output is being trusted correctly.
- You have had a stockout or a write-off recently and want to know what it actually cost you.
Practical questions
What data do you need?
Twelve months of sales by SKU, your current stock on hand, and supplier lead times if you track them. CSV or Excel exports straight out of your system are fine, and you do not need to tidy anything up first. We send you the exact list with the format we need, so there is no guessing at either end.
How long does it take?
Same day to a few working days from your data arriving, not from your payment. The clock starts when the files land, because the analysis cannot begin before that. If anything is going to take longer than usual, you hear it when we first see the data rather than watching a deadline slide quietly past.
What happens after I pay?
You get an email listing exactly what to send, where to send it, and the data handling agreement to sign. Nothing starts until those files arrive, so the sooner they do, the sooner the report comes back. If you are missing one of the exports, say so and we will tell you honestly what can still be done without it.
What if my data is messy?
Messy data is normal and working with it is part of the job. Inconsistent SKU codes, gaps in history and stock counts that disagree with the system are all things we expect to find and can usually work around. If something is genuinely unusable we tell you before we start rather than after, so you are never paying for an analysis that cannot be done.
What if I want to stop there?
Then you stop there, and that is a perfectly reasonable outcome. The report, the SKU action list and the 90 day roadmap are yours to act on with your own team, with no obligation to buy anything else. The Audit is priced to prove the method cheaply, not to trap you into the next tier.
Find out what it has actually cost you.
Your SKUs, your numbers, and a prioritised list of what to fix first. Delivered within days of your data arriving.