AI, DATA AND COMMERCIAL OPTIMISATION
Most businesses do not have a data shortage. They have a decision-making shortage.
Proven Professionals connects UK food and drink businesses with senior professionals who apply AI, data and automation to commercial and operational decisions.
Support is available on a project, fractional, interim or advisory basis.
Discuss your challengeDECISIONS
Customer, pricing and product data turned into choices a leadership team can act on.
TIME
Manual reporting, forecasting and administration reduced.
VISIBILITY
Performance seen early enough to change it.
Reports are produced every month, and decisions are still made on instinct.
Senior people spend hours each week assembling figures from spreadsheets and customer portals.
The business wants to use AI and does not know where it would earn a return.
Commercial data. Sales, margin and customer data brought together so that profitability by customer and product can be seen.
Forecasting and planning. Demand forecasts that draw on sales history, promotions and seasonality.
Automation and AI. Practical uses, such as order processing, reporting and customer communication, chosen by the time they save and the errors they remove.
The requirement is established first: the decision that needs better information, or the work that consumes time.
A senior professional who has applied these tools in a food and drink business is then proposed. The scope is agreed before any work begins.
The established uses are demand forecasting, automated reporting, order and invoice processing, and analysis of sales and pricing data. Each replaces manual work or shows a pattern that was not visible.
Usually. Sales by customer and product, prices, promotions and costs are enough to show profitability and improve a forecast. The limit is more often how the data is organised than how much there is.
With one decision that matters, such as which customers are profitable. The data needed for that decision is gathered first, and the rest follows.
Discuss your challengeThe Commercial Diagnostic is a written review of a food or drink business across five commercial areas, scored by a senior professional. £950, delivered in five working days.
See the Commercial Diagnostic