Maximize Your Business Potential with Custom Grower Sales Forecast and Sales Analysis
Unleash the power of Data-Driven Forecasting and Analysis
AGS is partnering with Ken Lane from Hathaway & Lane Digital to bring a unique and highly valuable forecasting and analysis tailored specifically for growers.
We combine the forecasting expertise and marketing knowledge and experience of Ken Lane with the data and analytic capabilities and deep grower operational knowledge and experience from Advanced Grower Solutions to provide unparalleled insight and results.
This creates a potent combination of capability, experience, and insight to provide a forecast that is truly designed to help maximize the potential for your business. Our goal is help your business succeed and have long term customer relationships.
| Phase | Description |
|---|---|
| Initiation and Discovery | In this phase we have discovery meetings with key staff to get the overview of your business and market as you see it. We identify key data sources to drive the analysis including your SKU, customers and historical data and layout the rest of the plan. |
| Data Gathering | We gather the key data sources from your history and market to facilitate analysis of your situation |
| Analysis | We crunch the numbers and put together the analytic picture of your business, customers, and market. |
| Forecast Build | Once the basic analytic foundation is created, we will build an initial forecast with your data, key statistics, and factors that influence the decisions you will make about what to grow and how much of it to grow. |
| Review and Finalize | We work with your team to walk through and iterate key findings, factors impacting the business and how the market data will shape your plan. |
Grower Questions and FAQs
What does this cost?
Big name market research companies can charge 10’s of thousands of dollars for this type of research and analysis and forecast build.
And many of those don’t have the key experience and capabilities that we do with this potent offering.
For a modest size grower, we anticipate this will cost a few thousand dollars depending on the size and complexity of your market, the amount and condition of your data. Our team will work with you to design an engagement price that is fair and reasonable to get the forecast you need for your business.
We can tailor our approach to handle larger growers who must deal with these types of purchase models. We can help with your data analysis, and potentially pricing as well. Contact us below and we can discuss your situation.
We participate in Vendor Managed Inventory (Pay By/From Scan, Scan Based Trading) will this work for our situation?
Both Advanced Grower Solutions and Hathaway and Lane have extensive experience working with retail operations and the vendor managed inventory model.
We can tailor our approach to handle larger growers who must deal with these types of purchase models. We can help with your data analysis, and potentially pricing as well. Contact us below and we can discuss your situation.
Why would we need your service, our planner handles this in their excel sheet?
Granted every grower must decide what to grow whether they have a formal forecast or not.
The difference with our service is that it will be a data driven forecast from which you can develop a plan that is more likely to help your business achieve your objectives, bringing a richer external picture of your market and sales analytics than you may have been able to see otherwise.
Additionally, having external resources like us help can uncover insights that didn’t exist in your spreadsheet, and we can bring new perspectives and guidance on what your business could do. The combination of expertise we bring is unmatched in our industry.
Grandpa didn’t use a forecast so why should we now that we are taking over the business?
Many grower businesses are family operations that pass from one generation to the next. The forebears typically had very good intuitive wisdom on running the operation no doubt and didn’t use analytical tools like we can today.
But those were simpler times.
We live in a more complex and nuanced time where visibility to data your ancestors didn’t have can provide insights they could not see. In fact, we would argue that without them you are running blind.
Further, consumers today have more choice, and frankly more noise to deal with. As such having external forecasting input can provide unique value to your business and honor in a modern way the heritage of family businesses that pass through the generations.
The combined expertise of AGS and Lane & Hathaway is unmatched in the industry, offering unparalleled guidance and recommendations to drive your business forward.
When Can I Start?
We can usually provide flexible timing. If you want to learn more or have an introductory call about this important new service for growers Contact us today for a discussion about your forecasting needs.