4x Faster to Trend. Transform Reactive Forecasting into Predictive Inventory.

The biggest threat to your Gross Margin is long-lead inventory risk based on lagging data. Metis is the Commercial Intelligence System that delivers real-time consumer demand signals, empowering you to secure a 4x faster competitive advantage in predicting trends and making risk-mitigated range commitments.
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    The Buying Risk: The High Cost of the Data Lag

    Relying on historical sales data or retrospective tools forces your team into a reactive posture. This results in three core margin-eroding liabilities:

    Inventory & Margin Risk

    Making high-stakes commitments based on old data leads to costly over-buying (forcing deep discounting) or under-buying (missing peak demand sales).

    Reactive Range Planning

    You are always chasing market demand, unable to identify new category expansion opportunities before competitors flood the market.

    Inaccurate Seasonal Forecasting

    Traditional seasonal planning is static. Real-time market volatility requires predictive data to inform short-lead purchase decisions and avoid stock obsolescence.

    Metis: Three Pillars of Buying Value

    Metis is engineered to transform the Buying function from a reactive forecasting model to a predictive, margin-protecting engine.

    Accelerated Trend Identification

    Metis monitors millions of consumer signals to identify emerging market demand and trend shifts four times faster than competitors.

    • Utility: Demand Tracker provides weekly, real-time demand data for your specific product vertical.

    • Outcome: Guaranteed First-Mover Advantage. Spot rising trends that perfectly align with your current or future high-margin product catalogue, enabling rapid, short-lead purchase decisions.

    Data-Informed Range Planning

    We help eliminate the guesswork from long-lead commitments. Metis validates range plans and guides strategic new category expansion with five years of predictive seasonality data.

    • Utility: Long-Term Demand Forecasting and Category Expansion Gap Analysis.

    • Outcome: Confidence in Capital Allocation. De-risk inventory by committing spend to items that are validated by existing consumer intent, mitigating the commercial risk of both over- and under-buying.

    Operational Logistics Optimisation

    By using real-time demand insights, you can inform downstream operational teams, from Merchandising to Logistics, ensuring maximum profitability upon arrival.

    • Utility: Provides the Unified Demand Language for cross-functional team alignment.

    • Outcome: Optimise Stock Allocation. Ensure warehousing and regional planning is demand-driven, improving logistics efficiency and driving faster conversion rates when products hit the site.

      What clients say about Metis

      “The main win from Metis is the usefulness of the insight that has found its way into strategy and planning throughout the business.

      We are impressed with the Metis ways of working and how this is generating a good mix of offsite SEO links that help drive authority and brand.

      Ria Campbell

      HEAD OF MARKETING

      Monsoon

      “Metis is now embedded into all areas of our business and is the central platform that allows us to make decisions faster than our competition. The insight from the platform is impacting decision making by the marketing teams and is also transcending into the daily decisions that are made by the trading and merchandising teams”

      Elinor Pierce

      ECOMMERCE GENERAL MANAGER

      New Look

      “Metis empowers us to keep our heads in the data and our eyes on the road ahead.

      We know that the world is changing faster than ever but Metis is helping us to achieve our ambitious growth targets within an extremely competitive marketplace.”

      James Bertram

      HEAD OF DIGITAL

      Abbott Lyon

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          Your Activation Partner: Mediavision

          Our Commitment: SaaS-First, Expert Activation Optional.

          You are investing in Metis because you believe in its power to transform your operations. The eCommerce Optimisation Platform is designed for seamless integration and self-service operation by your internal teams. Should resource constraints, a complex technical challenge, or aggressive growth targets require external activation support, we have an answer:

          Mediavision: The eCommerce Activation Agency.

          The expert search consultants at Mediavision – the platform’s architects and award-winning agency – are available as your proven activation partners. Their ‘human plus AI’ model ensures the platform is deployed rapidly and effectively, guaranteeing you realise its maximum commercial potential.

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