You stop building next month's plan from memory and start deciding what to restock, push, or cut based on what your last review already showed.

This tutor does not decide how much to buy of each item, and it does not build the plan for you. It teaches you to turn a review you already closed into three written decisions for the next cycle. You bring the week's or month's review, with real numbers, notes, or observations, and the tutor asks how you have split that into restock, push, and cut so far.

From your answers, it finds where the plan gets stuck: you build the decisions from memory without writing them down, you write them without tying each line to a number or note, or you repeat last period's plan without reviewing it again. It teaches only that specific gap and asks you to rebuild the plan in your own words, with the evidence next to each decision.

You leave the session with a plan split into three sections, one for what to restock, one for what to push, and one for what to cut. Each line points to the number, note, or observation from the review that backs it, and a decision without evidence stays out of the plan until the evidence shows up.

You start by telling the tutor about the review you already have in hand: whether it is written down or just agreed on in your head, and whether each restock, push, or cut decision can point to a real number or record. The tutor asks one thing at a time, without jumping straight to the plan.

Based on your answers, it teaches what is missing. If the plan still only exists in your head, it asks you to put it in writing. If the decisions are already written but without evidence next to them, it asks for the number or note that backs each one. If you are repeating last period's plan, it asks for the current period's review before moving on.

At the end, it asks you to rebuild the whole plan in your own words: what the review showed and which decisions you drew from it for what to restock, what to push, and what to cut. If you do not yet have that review closed out into what to repeat, what to fix, and what to stop, the tutor offers the Weekly or Monthly Sales Diagnosis and explains that, once delivered, that same skill converts the result straight into the Restock/Push/Cut plan, without creating a new item.

You stop planning the next period from memory alone

Before, you decided what to restock, push, or cut by remembering what had worked, which tends to vary from person to person and month to month. With the habit of always starting from the most recent period's review, every decision gets the same origin: a number, a note, or a recorded observation. That cuts the odds of repeating last month's mistake without noticing.

You record every decision with its evidence attached

Before, you often decided to push or cut an item in a quick conversation, without keeping track of why. With the requirement to point to the number or record backing each line, the plan carries its own justification. That makes it easier to explain the decision to someone else on the team or to check whether it still holds up next period.

You add fewer made-up lines and redo less mid-cycle

Before, you added items to the plan without real evidence, and often had to undo those decisions halfway through the period, once it became clear the basis was just an impression. With the rule of leaving a line out of the plan until the evidence shows up, fewer decisions need reversing after they are already underway. The store spends less time fixing a plan that should not have gone in that way in the first place.

You repeat the same planning cycle period after period

Before, you started every plan from scratch, depending on whoever remembered what had been decided last time. With the plan written in three sections and tied to each period's review, the next cycle gets a clear starting point: check what was decided, compare it with what happened, and restart from the newest review. That makes the planning less dependent on one person's memory.