Assortment Planning + SAP + Grocery Retail: Built for Director Store Ops

Ward analyzes sell-through by store cluster to recommend which SKUs to add, drop, or reallocate. For Grocery retail specifically, Ward monitors 30,000+ SKUs across your stores and delivers automated insight cards with root cause analysis and recommended actions.

Ward tracks Fill rate, Shrinkage %, Fresh waste %, Promo lift, Basket size at the store-category level. Ward clusters stores by demographic, traffic, and sales patterns, then measures SKU performance against cluster benchmarks.

Ward reads from SAP via RFC/BAPI or OData APIs. No changes to your SAP configuration. Read-only access. Data syncs on your schedule. Data points include: POS transactions, Inventory positions, Purchase orders, Material master, Vendor master, Promotion calendar.

Yes. Ward reads SAP data and combines it with contextual signals (weather, events, demographics) to generate Grocery-specific insight cards. No custom development required.

Managing 800 stores from a spreadsheet is insane. Ward solves this with automated insight cards: Morning brief delivered at 06:47 with prioritized action list. Estate-wide heat map of store performance, updated hourly. Staffing recommendations correlated with predicted traffic.

Ward delivers daily insight cards covering Fill rate, Shrinkage %, Fresh waste % — tailored for Store Operations decision-making. Each card includes what changed, why it matters, and what to do next.

Ward tracks SKU productivity (revenue per facing), incremental contribution, substitution patterns, and cluster-level demand elasticity — all weighted against supplier fill rates and promotional obligations.

A category manager reviews the natural/organic section across 300 stores. Ward's analysis reveals three distinct clusters: urban health-conscious stores that should carry more SKUs, suburban stores aligned with the national plan, and rural locations where organic moves at a fraction of the estate average. The one-size-fits-all planogram is leaving revenue on the table in urban stores while tying up slow-moving inventory in rural ones.

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.