Assortment Planning + NCR
Most retailers discover Assortment problems too late. Ward delivers automated insight cards — what changed, why, and what to do — while there's still time to act.
Assortment Planning powered by NCR Voyix
Assortment Planning is the process of ward analyzes sell-through by store cluster to recommend which skus to add, drop, or reallocate.
When connected to NCR Voyix, Ward reads pos transactions, item-level sales, tender data and enriches them with contextual signals to generate assortment insight cards. Ward reads NCR transaction data via API or data export. Real-time or batch, depending on your NCR configuration.
How Ward delivers Assortment insight cards: Ward clusters stores by demographic, traffic, and sales patterns, then measures SKU performance against cluster benchmarks.
Key capabilities
- Store cluster segmentation
- SKU rationalization recommendations
- Whitespace opportunity detection
- Planogram optimization inputs
How Ward connects to NCR Voyix
Ward integrates with NCR Voyix POS and Aloha for convenience and restaurant retail. Transaction-level data powers daypart analysis and impulse optimization.
Setup: Ward reads NCR transaction data via API or data export. Real-time or batch, depending on your NCR configuration.
Data Ward reads from NCR
Impact metrics with NCR
Data lake enrichment
Ward enriches NCR data with: POS transactions, Weather & events, Loyalty data, Competitor proximity, Demographic data
What a Ward insight card looks like
Cluster B stores (urban, high-traffic) underperforming on premium snacks vs Cluster A by 34%. Assortment gap: 12 SKUs missing.
Frequently asked questions
Ward reads NCR transaction data via API or data export. Real-time or batch, depending on your NCR configuration. Data points include: POS transactions, Item-level sales, Tender data, Daypart summaries, Loyalty data.
First insight cards arrive within 48 hours of data connection. Ward needs approximately 2 weeks to establish robust baselines for your specific operation.
No. Ward sits on top of your existing stack. It is the proactive intelligence layer that watches your data continuously and delivers insight cards — so your team acts on findings instead of hunting for them.
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Insights surface
Ward’s agents detect what changed, why it matters, and what to do about it. Every insight includes a recommended action—not just a chart to interpret.
Insights become actions
Any insight card can be turned into a tracked ticket or task. Dispatched to the right person, on the right channel—mobile push, text, or email. Not every insight needs a ticket. But when one does, it has an owner.
Your team responds
Insights get voted up or down with reasoning. Tickets get completed or rejected. Every response is a signal—Ward learns what worked, what missed, and why.
Outcomes measured
Ward evaluates real results: revenue, margin, fill rate, labor cost. Did the action actually improve the number it targeted? Measured outcomes, not assumptions.
Agents get sharper
Every vote, every completed ticket, every measured outcome feeds back in. Ward learns from your team’s judgment and real-world results. Each cycle sharpens the next. Then it starts again.
See what assortment problems Ward catches.
Root causes, not just alerts. See it on your data.
Find out what your data has been hiding.
Tell us about your operation. We’ll show you the problems Ward catches — and the ones your current tools miss.