Pharmacy & Health · 20,000+ SKUs

Ward for
Pharmacy retail.

Seasonal illness demand. Rx-to-OTC conversion. Regulated inventory, seasonal demand spikes, and front-of-store optimization. Ward handles the complexity so your pharmacists focus on patients.

Front-of-store categories drive up to 65% of pharmacy gross margin, yet most chains still manage them with spreadsheet-era tools.Source: Drug Store News / NACDS Economics
Ward · Pharmacy Live
What is going to stock out this week?
Schema Scout → Supply Chain Agent

Nine SKU-store pairs cross the predicted-zero threshold inside 48 hours. Store 22 produce is the most urgent.

forecast.dailyLettuce at Store 22: 84 units/day against 38 on hand, zero by 11a Thursday
supplier.leadRegional DC lead time 18 hours, no sufficient PO already in transit
14 parallel queries forecast + POS + WMS confidence 0.89
Draft 220-unit replenishment against the regional DC
Gated on buyer approval · 4-hour SLA · writes a PO line to SAP MM

Problems Pharmacy operators
find too late.

The failure modes that usually surface in a post-mortem, weeks after anyone could act on them.

Seasonal illness demand
Rx-to-OTC conversion
Expiry management
Controlled substance compliance
Front-of-store attach
Front-of-store categories drive up to 65% of pharmacy gross margin, yet most chains still manage them with spreadsheet-era tools.

Source: Drug Store News / NACDS Economics

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Dashboards

Pinned views built from saved data-lake queries.

Front-store revenue +3.6% WoW
Front-store margin −1.8pp
OTC on-shelf availability 88%
Expiry waste, 60-day risk +0.9pp

Sources

Connect external systems to the data lake.

NameTypeLast sync
mckesson_wholesale_ordersimport2m ago
cardinal_lot_expiryimport2m ago
sap_pos_transactionsimport14m ago
sap_inventory_snapshotimport1h ago
retail_otc_sales_dailyimport1h ago
retail_front_store_marginimport1h ago
retail_planogram_auditimport1h ago

Policies

Browse and manage Cedar access policies for your tenant.

TLS 1.3 AES-256 Read-only SOC 2 II
Policy IDEffectResources
merch-read-front-storepermitModel::"front_store_margin"
ops-read-defaultpermitModel::*
phi-forbid-allforbidModel::"patient_*"
supply-read-expirypermitModel::"lot_expiry"
Ward analyzing Pharmacy retail data. Live product, real data lake.

Where Pharmacy operators
leave money on the table.

The KPIs Ward monitors, and what changes when someone is watching.

Expiry Waste
Flagged before close
Shelf-life velocity tracked per store.
Front-of-Store Margin
Highest-margin area
OTC adjacency and illness prep cards for the front end.
OTC Attach Rate
Rx-to-OTC conversion
Seasonal wellness bundling patterns identified.
Fill Rate
48–72hr lead time
Illness demand modeled before seasonal spikes hit.
Important caveats

Regulated inventory is outside Ward's optimization scope. Impact concentrates on front-of-store categories, OTC adjacency, and seasonal wellness.

Questions about Ward for pharmacy retail.

First insight cards within 48 hours of connecting to your data. Stable baselines across 20,000+ SKUs and your store estate within roughly two weeks.

Ward connects to the systems pharmacy 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 pharmacy data, or a broader advisory engagement.

See what Pharmacy 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.

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