Merchandising
Steering Retail into the Future with AI
In the dynamic realm of retail, staying ahead requires navigating through a myriad of emerging technologies. Amidst this landscape, FocalOS emerges as a beacon of innovation, offering retailers a scalable and transformative AI solution. With its "Zero Integration POC," FocalOS empowers retailers to seamlessly integrate AI into their operations, driving efficiency, and growth.
Retail Curators:
Merchandisers act as the backbone of retail, meticulously curating assortments to meet customer demands and enhance shopping experiences. Their role revolves around understanding market trends, optimizing planograms, and ensuring product availability to drive sales and maintain market share.
Omni-Channel Demands:
In the era of omni-channel retailing, merchandisers face the dual challenge of excelling both online and in-store. They must navigate supply chain disruptions, optimize shelf space, and ensure consistent availability across diverse channels, all while meeting evolving consumer expectations.
Focal Systems' Solution:
In today's retail environment, where online and in-store channels are equally crucial for maintaining and expanding market share, FocalOS offers a streamlined solution. By adapting stores to per-store Planograms (POGs), swiftly addressing Known Supply Issues, and providing real-time store visibility, FocalOS optimizes On-Shelf Availability (OSA) and drives sales. With FocalOS, retailers can effectively navigate the complexities of modern retailing, ensuring a seamless and efficient shopping experience for customers across all channels.
How it Works
Focal’s Shelf Cameras digitize your sales-floor, backroom, and top-stock hourly
By monitoring your shelves 24/7/365 with enterprise-grade, cost effective AI-powered cameras, we provide accurate and actionable information that feeds FocalOS to “drive” your store for you.
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Maximizing Shelf Allocation Efficiency by Addressing Chronic Outs with Focal's AI Solution
Our system detects "Chronic Outs" at the store level, ensuring optimal shelf allocation and eliminating stockouts. Unlike traditional Category Management methods, which rely on average sales for shelf allocation, our approach ensures balanced distribution across all SKUs. Through hourly scans, we identify under-allocated SKUs prone to stockouts and adjust facing distribution using AI algorithms. This optimization maximizes EBITDA across all SKUs.
Tackling Out-of-Stocks with Focal's AdaPOG
Focal's AdaPOG (Adaptive Planogramming AI) offers tailored solutions to address Chronic Outs and Supply Issues, effectively preventing out-of-stocks at their source. By recognizing that over half of out-of-stock instances stem from under-allocation and supply issues rather than store execution, AdaPOG dynamically adjusts planograms on a per-store basis in real-time. This proactive approach significantly boosts On-Shelf Availability and Sales, reducing the labor needed to replenish under-allocated SKUs. Discover how AdaPOG can optimize your retail operations for enhanced efficiency and profitability.
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AdaPOG puts you in control. Set it on “Cruise Control” or be in the loop. Up to you!
Focal’s AdaPOG interface allows Category Managers to see exactly what is happening on your shelves, what the algorithms are doing, and how you are performing in each store. You can be in complete control of what Micro-Resets get pushed to stores, or can let the algorithms go on “cruise control”. From AdaPOG, Category Managers can delete SKUs, add SKUs, impose category blocking, and more. Supply Chain Managers can update Known Supply Issues and COGS as well. From there, AdaPOG has it covered. AdaPOG will adapt shelf allocation uniquely for every store’s specific buying habits and availability to ensure full, healthy shelves, that maximizes EBITDA in every store.
These “Micro-Resets” are automatically pushed to Focal’s Action Tool for Store Execution
Focal has designed the most intuitive POG execution tool available, no more print out packets. Focal’s Action Tool allows Stockers to quickly and easily execute all Resets and Micro-Resets and update the system when they are performed, and if they can not, to provide a reason why they could not.
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Finally, Focal’s Shelf Cameras ensure POG Compliance by scanning the shelves.
Once a stocker updates the Action Tool to indicate completion of the Reset, Focal’s shelf cameras perform another scan to measure POG Compliance, ensuring accurate and automated execution of the Planogram.
Now watch your EBITDA grow!
Our case studies have proven that adapting your shelf allocations to changing supply and demand can drastically impact OSA, Sales, Labor, and EBITDA.
The second a vendor tells you they can not fill their orders for a month, just update AdaPOG, and Focal will temporarily remove that SKU from affected stores, and spread out facings of an under-allocated SKU.
The second Focal’s cameras detect under-allocated SKUs, Focal will run our algorithms to determine the best thing to do for that store specifically.
This is the power of AI!
Proven with some of the largest retailers in the world
We have deployed thousands of stores with our technology, come take Focal for a test drive today!
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