Technology
Unlocking Retail Success with Focal Systems Technology
Focal Systems' innovative AI and operating system are tailored to revolutionize brick-and-mortar retail, seamlessly integrating with existing infrastructures while delivering unparalleled results. Our solution provides real-time, actionable shelf data, empowering retailers to elevate store operations and drive performance to new heights effortlessly. Welcome to a transformative retail experience powered by FocalOS."
The Technology's Role:
As a technology leader in the retail sector, your role is pivotal in leveraging innovative solutions to meet evolving customer demands and optimize operational efficiency. With Focal Systems' AI and OS, you can streamline integration processes and harness the power of real-time shelf data to enhance decision-making and drive brick-and-mortar store performance.
Challenges with Legacy Technologies:
Retailers must meet high customer expectations for seamless experiences and swift delivery while optimizing brick-and-mortar operations. Traditional methods struggle to keep pace, leading to wasted resources and reduced profitability. Overcoming these obstacles is essential for delivering exceptional service and maximizing revenue.
Focal Systems' Solution:
Focal Systems presents a comprehensive solution tailored to address the unique challenges faced by brick-and-mortar retailers. By leveraging our advanced AI and operating system, you can eliminate substitutions, boost picking velocity, and enhance on-shelf availability in your stores. Our user-friendly platform, FocalOS, offers seamless integration and scalability, empowering your team to unlock the full potential of retail technology with ease.
How it Works?
Focal's Shelf Cameras redefine retail management by digitally transforming your sales-floor, backroom, and top-stock areas on an hourly basis
With our enterprise-grade, cost-effective AI-powered cameras, we monitor your shelves 24/7/365, providing precise and actionable insights. These valuable data seamlessly integrate with FocalOS, empowering you to efficiently manage and optimize your store operations.
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.
Focal’s AdaPOG creates recommendations to fix Chronic Outs and Supply Issues to stop Out of Stocks at the root
The root cause of over half of the out of stocks in a store have nothing to do with store execution, it has to do with under-allocation and supply issues. Focal’s AI “adapts” planograms in real-time on a per store basis, to fix these issues as soon as they are detected. This dramatically increases On-Shelf Availability and Sales, while decreasing labor required to constantly fill under-allocated SKUs.
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AdaPOG offers flexibility: whether you prefer full control or automated operation is up to you
Focal's AdaPOG interface, Category Managers gain insights into shelf activity and algorithm performance. You have the option to manage Micro-Resets or enable cruise control mode. AdaPOG empowers you to modify SKUs, implement category blocking, and address supply issues. Supply Chain Managers can also update Known Supply Issues and COGS. AdaPOG ensures optimal shelf allocation tailored to each store's buying patterns, enhancing profitability across the board.
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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