Food, Beverages & Retail

A clearer view of every location. Better decisions, every day.

We help food, beverage and retail businesses connect sales, product and operational information. From leadership reporting to practical dashboards for branch managers, we turn scattered data into a clearer understanding of what is happening and where to act next.

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Your priorities. Our contribution.

From leadership and finance to production, sales and branch teams: we connect information across the business and make it useful for the people closest to daily operations.

CEO & leadership advisory

There is plenty of operational data, but limited time to turn it into priorities across locations, products and teams.

How kumai helps
  • Strategic sparring
  • Focused analysis
  • Decision briefings
  • Identification of improvement opportunities
  • Practical changes in reporting, processes and systems

Data, BI & business performance

Figures from tills, business systems and local reports do not form one consistent view. Comparing branches or periods requires manual work.

How kumai helps
  • Shared KPI definitions
  • Connected data
  • Role-specific dashboards
  • Useful performance comparisons for leadership and branch managers
  • Access to underlying detail

Software, integration & AI

Existing systems contain the information, but extracting and connecting it takes repeated effort. Small workflow gaps become everyday manual tasks.

How kumai helps
  • Connections to point-of-sale systems
  • Connections to business systems through suitable interfaces
  • Focused applications
  • Assessment of AI for analysis and information access
  • Assessment of AI for routine administration

Processes, operations & controls

Teams can see the totals but struggle to understand returns, product patterns and where follow-up is needed.

How kumai helps
  • Reporting that makes exceptions visible
  • Workflows for managing exceptions
  • Mapping of information flows across production, sales and branches
  • Improved handovers
  • Improvement of recurring tasks

Client relationships & growth

Customer and product patterns are difficult to interpret across locations, days and channels.

How kumai helps
  • Clear views of customer activity
  • Product-group and channel performance
  • Assessment of local patterns
  • Preparation for business-customer discussions
  • Informed assortment decisions

Implementation & team enablement

A dashboard can be technically correct but still difficult to use during a busy working day.

How kumai helps
  • Development with the people who will use the solution
  • Simpler navigation
  • Practical introductions
  • Feedback from branch and management teams
  • Improvements based on that feedback

What this can look like in practice.

Give each team the information it needs, starting with a clear overview and making further detail available when it is useful.

Leadership & branch dashboards

Use a shared reporting foundation with different views for management and local teams.

Application Focus
Leadership Performance across locations and channels, with trends and exceptions that deserve attention.
Branch managers Relevant daily and monthly indicators for their own location, with clear comparisons.
Business support teams The detail needed to investigate figures, maintain definitions and resolve data questions.
Meaningful daily & period comparisons

Make comparisons reflect how the business actually trades. A monthly total is useful, but it does not explain differences between weekdays or individual locations.

Application Focus
Daily patterns Trends in sales and customer activity within a selected reporting period.
Comparable days Compare equivalent weekdays and periods rather than treating every day as interchangeable.
Branch & channel views Understand the relevant differences between locations, business customers and consumer sales.
Product groups, assortment & returns

Help teams understand product performance without turning every low-volume item into a misleading exception.

Application Focus
Product-group overview Start with the main categories and drill down into relevant individual products.
Contextual comparisons Agree which products belong in a comparison and how special items should be treated.
Returns & follow-up Make return patterns visible alongside sales information to support investigation and operational decisions.
Connected data & reliable reporting

Reduce repeated exports and manual preparation by connecting the information required for agreed reports.

Application Focus
System connections Bring together relevant point-of-sale, product and business-system data.
Shared definitions Align locations, product groups, periods and KPI calculations across the reporting model.
Data operations Establish refresh routines, quality checks and clear ownership when information is missing.
From insight to everyday improvement

Help people use the information and agree what should happen next. Further automation or AI should follow a clear operational need.

Application Focus
Team introduction Explain navigation, interpretation and practical questions using familiar examples.
Improvement feedback Gather input from branches and management, then prioritise changes that make the tool more useful.
Further applications Assess opportunities such as demand-planning support or administrative automation against the available data and process readiness.

Working alongside you.

We work with leadership, finance, sales and branch teams to understand both the business questions and the routines behind the numbers. Our AI-assisted analysis and development help us explore the data and produce early versions for discussion. We can provide focused delivery capacity and help the team turn feedback into improvements.

Access is designed around the information each role needs. Development can take place in your own or an agreed environment, including Azure in Switzerland or another chosen geography where the required services are available.

We introduce the solution with your people, document the reporting logic and transfer agreed code and knowledge. The aim is a tool that teams can use confidently and continue developing as their needs change.

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