Ward for
Home retail.
Project basket identification. Seasonal pre-positioning. Project-based purchasing, long-tail SKUs, and seasonal volatility. Ward manages the complexity of 50,000+ SKU environments with ease.
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 |
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% |
Problems Home operators
find too late.
The failure modes that usually surface in a post-mortem, weeks after anyone could act on them.
Source: Harvard Business Review / IHL Group
Dashboards
Pinned views built from saved data-lake queries.
Sources
Connect external systems to the data lake.
| Name | Type | Last sync |
|---|---|---|
epicor_pos_transactions | import | 2m ago |
epicor_special_orders | import | 2m ago |
netsuite_inventory_snapshot | import | 14m ago |
retail_seasonal_prebuild | import | 1h ago |
retail_sku_velocity | import | 1h ago |
retail_pro_account_sales | import | 1h ago |
retail_weather_daily | import | 1h ago |
Policies
Browse and manage Cedar access policies for your tenant.
| Policy ID | Effect | Resources |
|---|---|---|
merch-read-default | permit | Model::* |
pro-team-read-accounts | permit | Model::"pro_account_sales" |
vendor-blocked | forbid | Model::"labor_*" |
supply-read-orders | permit | Model::"special_orders" |
Where Home operators
leave money on the table.
The KPIs Ward monitors, and what changes when someone is watching.
Ward requires 6\u201312 months to baseline seasonal categories. Pro vs DIY segment separation is critical for accurate modeling.
Insight cards for Home.
What Ward covers
for home retail.
Home integrationsRead-only by default.
Built for home leadership
Metrics Ward moves
Operator stories
and the alternatives.
Questions about Ward for home retail.
First insight cards within 48 hours of connecting to your data. Stable baselines across 50,000+ SKUs and your store estate within roughly two weeks.
Ward connects to the systems home operators actually run: ERP, POS, e-commerce, data warehouses, and BI tools. Read-only API access. No data movement required.
No. Ward sits on top of the data your dashboards already visualize and surfaces what changed, why, and what to do, between dashboard refresh cycles, while your team is doing other work.
Two ways to start.
A fixed-fee pilot on your home data, or a broader advisory engagement.
Playbooks for Home.
By department and system.
Tuned to Home Improvement velocity and systems.
Merchandising
Supply Chain
See what Home operators are missing.
Ward finds the margin leaks, shrinkage patterns, and promo misfires your reports don’t surface.
Read-only to start · your LLM keys · SOC 2 Type II underway · or book a call directly
Find out what your data has been hiding.
Tell us about your operation. We’ll show you the problems Ward catches, and the ones your current tools miss.