Enhance On Shelf Availability
Understanding the reality of on-shelf availability is crucial for a successful retail strategy. Despite inventory systems indicating adequate stock levels, the sales floor often tells a different story due to operational and logistical discrepancies. These mismatches not only result in empty shelves and lost sales but also frustrate shoppers, complicating the collaboration between retailers and suppliers.
Our On Shelf Availability feature is designed to bridge this gap. By harnessing advanced machine learning techniques, we provide a clear, consistent measure of merchandisable space within each 4-foot section, excluding non-relevant areas such as floors and ceilings. Once the main shelf area is isolated, our void detection system is run across the remaining surface area, identifying gaps in the shelf and communicates the gaps.
As this feature evolves and coverage continues to grow across categories, we’re enhancing analytics support so that stock levels can be compared more easily over time and across categories.
Onboarding to the tool was great. Sure, the training opportunities were helpful to see, but it’s definitely an intuitive tool.
Out of Stocks in Photos
You can visualize stock availability directly from the viewer. In the photo viewer, select the Stock levels icon — found with the other visualization tools, just under Time travel. This filters out irrelevant areas like floors and ceilings, clip strips and in-aisle displays. Our void detection algorithm then quantifies the empty spaces within the merchandisable shelf space, providing a consistent metric of stock levels.
Stock Levels in Planograms
You can also determine stock level across an entire planogram. While in the Planogram feed, you can click the Stock levels toggle wherever it's available to enabled and disable the stock levels overview. Like in the viewer, this view will highlight any empty space across the shelves, and provide a score per photo in the planogram.
In addition, you can also filter by different stock levels to help you understand where execution is going awry. At the bottom of the filters within Planograms, you'll find the following options under Stock levels:
High
Medium
Low
Mixed (varied stock levels per photo in the section)
You can choose any combination of these filters to display results that match them.
Total View of Your On Shelf Availability
Compare on-shelf availability per category per retailer, week by week. On the left, you’ll see a percentage measure (and drill down to each part of the bar). On the bottom, you’ll see each week you have data collected for. On the right, you have a toggle to see the past 52 weeks compared to a week ago. Scroll down, you can see the coverage via retailers for your category.
Green is good with 90% in stock, yellow is okay with 60% in stock, and red is poor with less than 60% in stock.
