Retail Forecasting Needs a Rethink

Current demand forecasting in retail is broken. Teams are left guessing inventory needs, chasing unreliable outputs, or trying to reverse-engineer a black-box model they can't explain.

3MA takes a different approach: publishing transparent short-term sales forecasts with country-specific drivers and open performance tracking — no login, no paywall.

Why This Matters

In today’s environment, retail teams can’t afford guesswork. They need to avoid stockouts, manage supply chains proactively, and spot early signals of change — whether that’s rising demand or a pending slowdown.

But that’s only half the story. Understanding why demand is shifting is just as important as knowing how much it might. That’s where robust retail analytics makes a difference.

The Problem With Current Options

Despite the buzz around AI-powered sales forecasting models, most available tools are opaque, oversell accuracy, and rarely share how well past predictions held up. Internal solutions take time — and for many retailers, that’s not feasible.

Our Response: 3MA’s Open Forecasts

We’re piloting a new approach, starting with consumer electronics across several EU countries. What we’re testing:

Forecasts are free during beta and remain publicly available after a short embargo. We don’t just show what’s coming — we explain why, and how well our model performed last time. Over time, we aim to support better pricing optimisation and category-level planning too.

Quiet Forecasting. No Pitch.

If this sounds like the kind of forecasting your team has been looking for, there’s nothing to sign up for. Just visit the reports and see for yourself.

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