You find out about stockouts after customers do.
Your supply chain team has the data. They don’t have the bandwidth to find what’s buried in it. Ward delivers the findings, with root causes attached. Click any number to see the SQL.
Nine SKU-store pairs cross the predicted-zero threshold inside 48 hours. Store 22 produce is the most urgent.
forecast.daily | Lettuce at Store 22: 84 units/day against 38 on hand, zero by 11a Thursday |
|---|---|
supplier.lead | Regional DC lead time 18 hours, no sufficient PO already in transit |
Vendor C billed above the active price list. The overage is recoverable.
invoice.line | 1,200 units at $4.28; contract clause 3.2(b) sets $4.12 |
|---|---|
dispute.amount | $0.16 per unit, $192 total, classified as off-contract pricing |
Pulled Store 37’s last 28 days against the chain baseline. Two compounding causes.
labor_efficiency | Revenue per labor hour −22%, staffing miss at the 11a–1p peak |
|---|---|
promo.lift | BOGO crackers cannibalised Brand Y −28%, net category only +6% |
Ranked on GMROI and velocity together, not units alone, so profitable slow movers survive the cut.
gmroi.sku | 412 SKUs below $0.90 GMROI holding $1.8M in working capital |
|---|---|
assortment.gap | 31 SKUs selling in the urban cluster are unstocked in a demographically matched cluster |
What supply chain finds out
too late.
You find out about stockouts after customers do.
Demand forecasts are off by 15-25% and nobody catches it until the shelf is empty
Supplier fill rate problems announce themselves at the receiving dock
Safety stock levels get set once a year and left alone
No early warning system for supply chain disruptions
Replenishment exceptions require manual triage every morning
Source: IHL Group
Insight cards for
supply chain leaders.
- ×Demand forecasts are off by 15-25% and nobody catches it until the shelf is empty
- ×Supplier fill rate problems announce themselves at the receiving dock
- ×Safety stock levels get set once a year and left alone
- ×No early warning system for supply chain disruptions
- ✓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
- ✓Weather, event, and macro-driven demand adjustments
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
Weather, event, and macro-driven demand adjustments
Replenishment exceptions auto-prioritized by revenue impact
From signature
to running insights.
A live pilot for supply chain leaders hits these milestones on real data, on a fixed-fee schedule.
This is what Ward
delivers to you.
Dashboards
Pinned views built from saved data-lake queries.
Sources
Connect external systems to the data lake.
| Name | Type | Last sync |
|---|---|---|
sap_pos_transactions | import | 2m ago |
sap_inventory_shrinkage | import | 2m ago |
sap_labor_scheduling | import | 14m ago |
retail_inventory_weekly | import | 1h ago |
retail_google_ads_daily | import | 1h ago |
retail_meta_ads_daily | import | 1h ago |
retail_ga4_website_daily | import | 1h ago |
Policies
Browse and manage Cedar access policies for your tenant.
| Policy ID | Effect | Resources |
|---|---|---|
merch-read-default | permit | Model::* |
finance-read-shrinkage | permit | Model::"inventory_shrinkage" |
vendor-blocked | forbid | Model::"labor_*" |
region-west-only | permit | Tenant::"acme" |
23 SKUs trending toward zero-on-hand within 48 hours. Replenishment recommendation attached. Priority: dairy and produce categories.
Read-only credentials, Cedar policy per agent, a full reasoning trail on every number. Your security review is short and your data team is not carrying the risk.
Read the security posture →The blind spots that cost
supply chain leaders the most.
KPIs that erode quietly when nobody’s watching, one from each vertical this role covers.
What Ward covers
for supply chain leaders.
Retail verticals
Insight typesThe first three are where this role usually starts.
Metrics Ward moves
Platform pieces this role leans on
Systems Ward connects toRead-only by default.
Operator stories
and the alternatives.
Two ways to start.
Run a fixed-fee pilot on your data, or talk to advisory about a broader engagement.
Playbooks for Supply Chain.
The playbooks this team runs on Ward.
Control AI spend by department and user.
Without skimping on the outcome.
Give every department and every user a compute budget. Ward routes each question to the cheapest model that clears the quality bar, so finance caps the spend without capping what the business gets back.
You find out about stockouts after customers do.
See what Ward finds for Supply Chain leaders, with root causes and recommended actions.
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