Inventory
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Your Smartest And
Smallest Inventory
Focal clients can accomplish the seemingly impossible: shrink inventories and food waste while simultaneously increasing on-shelf product availability. Inventory balances become dramatically more accurate; orders become more precise and timely; thousands of items shift from warehouse to shelf; and excess inventory plummets – dropping by 30% or more.
Maximize Availability, Minimize Stockouts
In retail, availability is everything. Focal Systems’ AI-powered solutions ensure that products are always on the shelf when customers need them. Our real-time shelf monitoring and automated replenishment systems prevent out-of-stock situations, ensuring that stock gaps are identified and resolved instantly. With Focal, you can guarantee optimal product availability, reducing lost sales and enhancing the customer experience.
Balances Updated All Day Long
How close is your inventory data to reality? 70% accurate? 80%? Focal’s System will get you better than 95% accuracy. Action Tool connects your store team to balance-on-hand in real time, even providing inventory locations. When a worker or Action Tool finds that store records are inaccurate, Focal makes it easy to adjust balances with just a click. That’s why we make 100,000 inventory adjustments for clients every day, recapturing tens of thousands of dollars in items that previously showed zero balance, and cancel out phantom inventory.
Locate Stock: Top Stock & Warehouse Cams
With Focal Top Stock and warehouse cameras, there is no reason to waste time hunting for missing inventory. Know where your inventory sits anytime you need to find it – with replenishment tasks mapped to location. Or receive alerts, prioritized by importance, anytime a case pack should move to the shelf.
"Reverse Scan" Minimizes Movement
Not all stores carry top stock or have tidy warehouses where cameras can see all cartons. Focal can make replenishment more efficient by enabling Reverse Scan to indicate that a full case can fit on the shelf (or not). And with RFID integration, Focal eliminates the need even to scan an individual carton, instead allowing an RFID wand or stationary reader to scan an entire warehouse section or pallet to identify restock opportunities.
Cut Your Inventory While Increasing Availability
Using Focal’s full suite of capabilities retailers are able to shrink inventories and food waste while simultaneously increasing product availability. Hundreds more cases of products are brought from the warehouse to the sales floor thanks to accurate and timely out-of-stock and low stock reporting via Shelf AI. Inventory data becomes significantly more accurate and useful, going from 60-80% to 95% accuracy, allowing more precise ordering and reducing excess balances while maintaining availability. Low and out-of-stock events are reported in near-real time thanks to Shelf-AI so there is no waiting to place a critical order. All these improvements add up to dramatically smaller inventories carried – 30-60% smaller!
