Learn how to use the Depot Stock dashboard
The Depot Stock is an Essential plan feature.
Summary
Use the Depot Stock dashboard to understand and act upon your customer's depot stockholding. Identify product/depot combinations which are high or low on stock to inform production forecasts or drive interventions to prevent out-of-stocks.
- View stock levels for each product in each location to see issues which aren't visible at the total level.
- Missed depot-to-store deliveries act as an early warning for availability problems. Spot them early, and make targeted interventions to prevent lost sales.
Setting up the dashboard
The dashboard gives you three configuration options in the top bar, from left to right:
- Product Grouping: change whether the top-left bar chart shows Categories, Subcategories, Brands or individual SKUs. The default setting is SKU.
- Start Date: Set the start date for your time window.
- End Date: Choose the end date for your window. The left-hand bar charts will always show data for the last day in your window (the selected End Date).
What's on screen
There are three components on-screen, from left to right:
- Depot & SKU Breakdowns: On the page's left, there are two bar charts. They both show; Depot Shorts (missed deliveries you into the retailer depots), Depot Stock and Store Shorts (missed deliveries from depots into stores) for the latest date in the date range (the End Date).
- Depot breakdown bar chart: The top bar shows a breakdown by Depot. In this chart, the Depot Shorts and Store Shorts are shown as a stacked bar made up of SKUs, so you can see which SKUs have contributed to the shorted deliveries.
- SKU breakdown bar chart: The bottom bar shows a breakdown by SKU. In this chart, the Depot Shorts and Store Shorts are shown as a stacked bar made up of depots, so you can see which depots have contributed to the shorted deliveries.
💡 Larger bars represent a higher number of shorts. Hover over the bars to see where else the product or depot is shown.
- KPI tiles: the KPI summary tiles run vertically down the page, showing you key metrics for the latest date in the date range (end-date).
- Time series: The right side of the page shows Depot Inbound, Depot Stock, Store Inbound, Store Stock, Sales & Availability by day over your selected window.
⚠️ Selecting a depot will only filter the service level and depot stock metrics. Depots can not act as a filter for the Store Stock, Sales or Availability metrics.