Real-time Assortment for Home Improvement.
store-level Assortment signals, caught before they compound.
The Assortment capability built for Home Improvement
Ward analyzes sell-through by store cluster to recommend which SKUs to add, drop, or reallocate.
Ward clusters stores by demographic, traffic, and sales patterns, then measures SKU performance against cluster benchmarks.
What changes for your team
- Store cluster segmentation
- SKU rationalization recommendations
- Whitespace opportunity detection
- Planogram optimization inputs
Why assortment matters
in home retail.
The top 2,000 SKUs generate the bulk of revenue, but the remaining 48,000 are what makes you a project destination. Drop a niche fitting and you lose the entire project basket. Ward identifies which tail SKUs are project-basket anchors worth keeping and which are truly dead weight that should be rationalized.
Long-tail rationalization, plumbing department
Plumbing carries thousands of SKUs, hundreds with zero sales in 90 days. Ward's project basket analysis reveals that many of those "dead" SKUs appear alongside high-velocity project items — a specialty elbow fitting with minimal standalone sales is still critical to a complete project basket. Deleting it sends the customer to a competitor for the entire job. Ward separates true orphaned SKUs from project-basket anchors and recommends cutting only the former.
What a Ward card looks like.
Cluster B stores (urban, high-traffic) underperforming on premium snacks vs Cluster A by 34%. Assortment gap: 12 SKUs missing.
Home assortment:
the shift.
- ×Project basket identification
- ×Seasonal pre-positioning
- ×Long-tail inventory
- ✓Store cluster segmentation
- ✓SKU rationalization recommendations
- ✓Whitespace opportunity detection
Home KPI impact.
Ward requires 6\u201312 months to baseline seasonal categories. Pro vs DIY segment separation is critical for accurate modeling.
Questions about assortment.
Yes. Ward scales from 5 stores to 5,000.
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More Home insight cards.
Insights surface
Ward’s agents detect what changed, why it matters, and what to do about it. Every insight includes a recommended action—not just a chart to interpret.
Insights become actions
Any insight card can be turned into a tracked ticket or task. Dispatched to the right person, on the right channel—mobile push, text, or email. Not every insight needs a ticket. But when one does, it has an owner.
Your team responds
Insights get voted up or down with reasoning. Tickets get completed or rejected. Every response is a signal—Ward learns what worked, what missed, and why.
Outcomes measured
Ward evaluates real results: revenue, margin, fill rate, labor cost. Did the action actually improve the number it targeted? Measured outcomes, not assumptions.
Agents get sharper
Every vote, every completed ticket, every measured outcome feeds back in. Ward learns from your team’s judgment and real-world results. Each cycle sharpens the next. Then it starts again.
Home retailers: see what Assortment problems Ward catches.
Root causes, not just alerts. See it on your data.
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.