Nordic Alcohol Data Blog

A key part of our product offering is that we offer “near-real-time” data. We do this so our API customers can react quickly to the things that are important to them.

We love APIs, but we also want give you guys access to this data in a much easier and more convenient way. So we made all this data into a simple and easy to use website.

It focuses on the very latest changes to Systembolaget articles. But it also contains a deep history of both the articles and the stock levels. On top of that we’ve thrown in a few charts and analytics.

See changes to Systembolagets inventory as they happen. Check out our website here!

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Let’s take a first step towards data based marketing by looking at basic geographical data.

Where is the product at? Where is it on shelves? Marketing is a complex domain, and a lot of other things can inform our decision making, but I don’t think we’re ever going to get completely away from that simple question. Luckily, it’s easily answered by our up-to-date stock data.

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Systembolaget releases in detail sales figures infrequently. Which is a shame, because a lot of important product decisions depend on this data.

However, they release stock level data on an almost daily basis. The stock data also includes a huge amount of geographic data than the sales figures lack. If we can use stock data as a proxy for sales data, we can make some of these important decisions far more quickly and in response to events. Also, even more importantly, we may be able to use stock level data for individual store locations to infer things about the sales for that specific store.

Having an up-to-date and geographically detailed view of sales would help producers a lot. Can stock levels be a useful approximation for this?

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