Assortment Planning + Pharmacy Retail

Ward analyzes sell-through by store cluster to recommend which SKUs to add, drop, or reallocate. For Pharmacy retail specifically, Ward monitors 20,000+ SKUs across your pharmacies and delivers automated insight cards with root cause analysis and recommended actions.

Ward tracks Rx fill rate, OTC attach rate, Expiry waste %, Script count, Front-store margin at the store-category level. Ward clusters stores by demographic, traffic, and sales patterns, then measures SKU performance against cluster benchmarks.

Ward tracks Rx-to-OTC companion purchase rates, category productivity per square foot, health condition clustering by store, and new-item triage — whether a wellness SKU can earn its space against a proven companion item.

Stores with the highest metformin prescription volume are significantly under-assorted in diabetes management OTC — glucose monitors, test strips, diabetic-friendly snacks, foot care. They share the same planogram as stores with half the Rx volume. Ward recommends expanding diabetes OTC in high-volume stores by reallocating space from underperforming seasonal items.

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.