Teimuraz Giorgiobiani
Deputy Commercial Director · AgroHub LinkedIn
Key takeaways
- 1:05AgroHub manages a vertically integrated retail operation with its own farms and production facilities plus an assortment of approximately 10,000 FMCG SKUs.
- 2:07Manual ordering relied on managers’ experience, consumed substantial time and produced both out-of-stocks and overstock.
- 5:10LEAFIO now automates order generation across AgroHub stores, allowing managers to focus on analytics rather than routine ordering.
- 5:10AgroHub reports 12% lower average stock, 18% higher sales, 39% less surplus, 37% fewer lost sales and an 11% acceleration in product turnover.
Questions Teimuraz Giorgiobiani answered
AgroHub is a natural-product supermarket chain established in Georgia in 2016. It operates in two major Georgian cities and aims to ensure product quality by controlling development and production at multiple levels.
AgroHub automates its inventory management processes with LEAFIO AI retail solutions0:04
LEAFIO was initially tested in one store and then expanded across the chain. Store ordering is now generated automatically by the system.
AgroHub automates its inventory management processes with LEAFIO AI retail solutions2:07
Managers prepared orders manually using their own experience and system figures. The process took considerable time and led to out-of-stocks for some products and excess inventory for others.
AgroHub automates its inventory management processes with LEAFIO AI retail solutions2:07
Opening additional stores made the inefficiency of manual ordering more apparent. AgroHub concluded that it needed to optimize the process before continuing to scale.
AgroHub automates its inventory management processes with LEAFIO AI retail solutions3:08
Several of AgroHub’s partners in Georgia already used LEAFIO and recommended it. Their feedback gave AgroHub confidence to proceed with the implementation.
AgroHub automates its inventory management processes with LEAFIO AI retail solutions3:08
In Teimuraz Giorgiobiani's words
“The ordering process is done automatically in the system.”
AgroHub automates its inventory management processes with LEAFIO AI retail solutions2:07
“After implementing this LEAFIO program, we started to make the correct orders, which is helpful for every department in our chain.”
AgroHub automates its inventory management processes with LEAFIO AI retail solutions5:10
“Commercial managers are more oriented toward the analytical side of the business because they have more time to do their job, not to make the routine work.”
AgroHub automates its inventory management processes with LEAFIO AI retail solutions5:10