Assortment Planning + SAP + Pharmacy Retail: Built for VP Supply Chain

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 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 Pharmacy-specific insight cards. No custom development required.

You find out about stockouts after customers do. Ward solves this with automated insight cards: Stockout prediction cards arrive 24-72 hours before empty shelves. Supplier fill rate tracking with automatic escalation. Dynamic safety stock recommendations based on current demand signals.

Ward delivers daily insight cards covering Rx fill rate, OTC attach rate, Expiry waste % — tailored for Supply Chain decision-making. Each card includes what changed, why it matters, and what to do next.

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.