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How can you manage your deposits without spending your days chasing after numbers?

  • Writer: Claire Brunaud
    Claire Brunaud
  • Nov 25
  • 3 min read

Updated: 20 hours ago

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As a Regional Sales Manager, your day-to-day is already packed: field visits, distributor animation, assortment follow-up, claims management, preparation of local negotiations…


And on top of all that, one challenge keeps coming back: having a clear and up-to-date view of your depots.


Yet in Foodservice, that view too often looks like an incomplete puzzle:

• Excel files sent at irregular intervals

• partial data

• gaps between what the distributor reports and what you see in the field

• hours lost reconciling, cleaning, and trying to make sense of the numbers


It’s hard to manage your depots effectively when information doesn’t flow.

This is precisely where data centralization and automatic sell-out updates change everything.



Why do Regional Managers lack visibility on their depots?


The issue doesn’t come from you — nor from the distributor.


It comes from the very structure of the Foodservice market:

  • Each warehouse uses its own files, formats, and reporting rhythms.

  • Sell-out data is rarely harmonized.

  • Information circulates poorly between headquarters, depots, regional sales teams, and sales management.

  • Figures arrive late — sometimes too late to course-correct.


You’re managing your territory with a monthly snapshot, when what you really need is a moving video.



Managing your depots in real time: what centralization and automatic updates change


Imagine a dashboard where, in just a few seconds, you can see:

  • which depots are growing and which are declining

  • SKUs under pressure

  • actual volumes sold (not just ordered)

  • anomalies: overstock, understock, out-of-stocks, customer losses

  • performance gaps between distributors — without headaches over file formats


That’s exactly what KaryonFood enables, thanks to three key levers.


1. Centralized sell-out data to manage your depots without friction


No more chasing numbers.

No more waiting for each depot to finally send its file.

No more juggling 12 Excel tabs.


KaryonFood automatically collects sell-out data from your distributors, harmonizes it, cleans it, and loads it into a single tool.


You finally work from one shared, reliable source of truth.


For a Regional Sales Manager, this means:

• less uncertainty

• better-prepared distributor meetings

• faster action plans to deploy


2. An up-to-date view to react before situations deteriorate


Depots never decline overnight.


The problem is that without fresh data… you only realize it after volumes have already dropped.


With KaryonFood:

• data is updated automatically

• deviations are spotted in just a few clicks

• you know where to go — and why


You prioritize your visits based on lost volumes, declining segments, or struggling assortments.

You become proactive again, not reactive.



3. Smooth management between sales leadership, KAMs, and the field


When everyone has a different version of the numbers, discussions drag on endlessly.

When everyone looks at the same indicators, decisions become simple.


Data centralization enables:

• more constructive collaboration with distributors

• internal meetings grounded in facts

• far more effective field execution


The Regional Manager is no longer just the one who “feeds information back from the field”:

they become a true business driver, able to contribute directly to growth.



Managing your depots has never been this simple


With a tool like KaryonFood, you no longer waste time searching for information.


You use that time to:

  • support struggling depots

  • identify local opportunities

  • anticipate delisting risks

  • challenge distributors with hard facts

  • help your teams execute better


That’s the real challenge: gaining responsiveness, efficiency, and commercial impact — without drowning in spreadsheets.


Want to manage your depots in just a few clicks?


Discover how KaryonFood gives you a clear, reliable, and up-to-date view of your depots.


👉 Request your personalized demo and see for yourself how it can transform your commercial day-to-day.

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