Remove the guesswork, get WeekAhead

Optimise your business' end-to-end supply and demand process with a simple, scalable platform that turns your data into real-time insights with AI.

Giving you more time to spend on the important stuff, and direct savings to the bottom line.

Using WeekAhead, one international retailer saw sales rise by 8% and overall waste reduction by 17% within the first 12 months.

The company had thousands of stores, each of which had its own way of deciding what products to stock on any given day. This led to a lack of central visibility, difficulty optimising the range and a significant wastage issue - which in turn, led to a rise in disappointing customer experiences.

With WeekAhead, they were able to understand which products were likely to be most popular at individual stores, depending on the time and day - equaling less waste, more sales and more positive feedback to keep customers coming back and back again.

WeekAhead is here to make your life easier.  By combining your past sales data with historic external data (think weather or regional events information), WeekAhead can accurately predict the likely sales volume depending on the time, day, if it's sunny or raining, or if a huge music festival is passing through soon – ensuring you’re adequately prepared for maximum sales, reduced waste and high customer satisfaction.

Forget the tedious onboarding - simply plug in your sales data and hit the ground running.

WeekAhead is designed to have the functionality of an ERP solution, but without the headaches and drawn-out implementation.  All the data you need will come straight from your existing POS system.

Get your demand forecasts live in just two simple steps:

1.  Hook up your POS data to WeekAhead

2.  Configure your unique schedule (e.g. staff rote or business operating times)

Looking to go one further?  WeekAhead also has the function to automate ordering from your suppliers.

At Datamine, we pride ourselves on offering bespoke solutions.  Although this product is ready to go when you are – if you’re looking for specific functionalities or extra views, get in touch to see what’s possible.

Running a chain or franchise with dozens of outlets is usually chaotic and stressful, but it doesn't have to be - if you've got the right tools. 

What the market has been missing is a middle ground between complex and expensive ERP solutions and ineffective apps or Excel spreadsheets.

WeekAhead is designed to help you address stock-outs, staff-shortages, wastage, supplier and ordering headaches, lack of cross-business visibility and more.  The platform's predictive AI models use your historic sales and production data to give you a recommendation for which product, at which branch, at what time. 

With WeekAhead, you can:

Maximise sales

If you experience stockouts, you might very well be missing out on sales.  WeekAhead can be configured at a store level to maximise sales, altering your recommendation in favour of producing more product to meet or exceed expected demand.  

Predict staffing needs

If you’re managing a huge rota and are often caught out with under or over staffing issues, WeekAhead can use past data to predict when to bring in the back up.

Minimise wastage

If you're struggling with large amounts of daily wastage, the model can be configured to minimise wastage, altering your recommendation in favour of decreased production and lower waste (while still accommodating predicted demand).  

Retain valuable staff knowledge

Staff come and go - it's unavoidable.  With WeekAhead, you can reduce reliance on your individual staff members by collecting and storing relevant knowledge (recipes, kitchen information etc.) in the app to prevent key person risk.  

Streamline the end-to-end ordering process

Get a recommendation for how much of each ingredient or product to order, either on an ad hoc basis or by a standard schedule.  The recommendation is sensitive to upcoming demand - stock sold, stock on hand and stock on order.  Best of all, you can consolidate individual store requests into one daily supplier order.

Get visibility into performance metrics across your whole chain

WeekAhead gives you access to consolidated reporting of key metrics across the business or franchise.  You can analyse demand, recommended stock, produced stock, sold stock, wastage, stockouts, lost sales and more - either at an individual store level, or as an aggregated whole.