Well Expands Its LEAFIO Deployment to Inventory Optimization, Connecting Planograms to Replenishment

Well, the beauty, personal care, and home care drugstore chain operated by Albania's Alkos Group has selected LEAFIO Inventory Optimization to automate replenishment across its 14 stores and central warehouse in Albania, with expansion to 17 locations planned by the end of 2026. The agreement, signed in May 2026, extends a relationship that began in 2024 when Well deployed LEAFIO Shelf Efficiency for planogram and merchandising management.

Well selected LEAFIO Inventory Optimization to bring greater precision to an ordering process that faced growing complexity—promotional demand, seasonal variability, and widely varying supplier lead times across its assortment.

The decision to extend to Inventory Optimization built directly on Well's use of the Shelf Efficiency solution: the two modules share data, meaning planogram-defined shelf capacity feeds replenishment calculations and orders remain consistent with how products are laid out in store, a level of coherence its prior setup did not provide.

"Our ordering was geared toward short-term demand, making it difficult to manage long lead-time imports, promotions, and seasonal fluctuations. Because we were already running our planograms on LEAFIO Shelf Efficiency, extending to Inventory Optimization was a natural step. The system can now connect what we put on the shelf with what we order across our central warehouse and every store."  

Sabian Shabani, General Manager, Well Albania

"When a retailer expands from one LEAFIO module to a second, they are not starting over; the integration work is already done, the data is already flowing, and the platform already knows their stores, their categories, and their shelf layouts. For Well, that means Inventory Optimization can draw on planogram data from Shelf Efficiency from day one: shelf capacity feeds order quantities, so the system does not replenish more than the shelf can hold or less than the promotion demands. That is a level of coherence that is very difficult to achieve when replenishment and merchandising run on separate platforms."

Jane Medwin, Co-founder, LEAFIO AI

LEAFIO AI is a global retail optimization platform used by 250+ retailers across 40+ countries and 30,000+ stores worldwide. Its product suite includes Inventory Optimization, Assortment Performance, Shelf Efficiency, and Promotion Management, all integrated within a single Retail Platform that helps retailers optimize operations from supply chain to shelf. LEAFIO AI also offers Logistics solutions that extend optimization beyond the store and across the broader supply chain.