Fill Rate Monitoring + Looker + Specialty Retail: Built for Director Store Ops

Ward monitors on-shelf availability across your entire estate and flags stores or categories dropping below threshold. For Specialty retail specifically, Ward monitors 5,000+ SKUs across your boutiques and delivers automated insight cards with root cause analysis and recommended actions.

Ward tracks CLV, Conversion rate, Units per transaction, Repeat purchase rate, Sell-through by tier at the store-category level. Ward tracks expected vs actual on-shelf availability at the store-category level and escalates when fill rate drops below configurable thresholds.

Ward can query Looker via API or connect directly to the underlying database. Either way, Ward monitors while your team browses. Data points include: Looker API for query results, Underlying database (direct), LookML model metadata.

Yes. Ward reads Looker data and combines it with contextual signals (weather, events, demographics) to generate Specialty-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 CLV, Conversion rate, Units per transaction — tailored for Store Operations decision-making. Each card includes what changed, why it matters, and what to do next.

Ward uses weighted availability scoring (signature items weighted highest, commodity basics lowest), tracks time-of-day availability for high-demand items, and measures the halo effect of signature product availability on overall basket value.

Overall availability looks acceptable, but Ward's weighted metric shows a much lower score. The house-made sourdough — the product customers reference in reviews and social posts — sells out by early afternoon at several locations with higher foot traffic than the production schedule anticipates. Ward recommends adding an afternoon bake at affected stores. Signature product availability recovers, and afternoon revenue climbs as customers who came for the sourdough fill broader baskets.

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.