SET UP OPTIMAL INVENTORY AND USE OF SPACE FOR YOUR PET RETAIL

TURN THE CHALLENGES PET STORES FACE INTO THE AUTOMATED ROUTINE AND PROFIT OPPORTUNITIES

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  Overcoming inventory management issues with wide assortment, including perishable and imported goods

  Pet stores typically carry a wide range of products, from pet food and medications to toys and accessories. Managing inventory for such a diverse range of products can be challenging, particularly if they have different shelf lives, suppliers, lead times, storage requirements, and demand patterns.
  
  The LEAFIO system allows pet retailers to:
  - Forecast demand with a horizon of 6-12 months, which is important for imported products;
  - Automatically generate thousands of orders, considering current stock, demand, sales, lead times, shelf life, goods-in-transit, etc.;
  - Manage the stock of analogues, substitutes, and slow-movers without manual intervention;
  - Conduct smoothly and risk-free assortment rotation based on accurate forecasts and analytics;
  - Calculate initial demand for new goods to expand and rotate the assortment without much risk.
  
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  Effectively cope with a large variety of promotions

  Due to the peculiarities of the range, strong market competition and the long shelf life of some products, the share of goods in the promo can be up to 50%. If the demand for promotional goods is calculated incorrectly, the retailer can lose sales or have a huge overstock by the end of the promotion.
  
  How this is solved with LEAFIO:
  - A promotional calendar allows you to see all past, current, and future promotions across the chain, stores, and categories;
  - Using AI algorithms the system provides high availability right to the start and timely replenishment during the campaign adjusting stocks to current demand;
  - The analytical block allows you to monitor the running of the campaign and to analyze its results for future adjustments;
  - The program helps you generate planograms for promo campaigns based on the balances and other customized parameters;
  - Promotional planograms are replaced with regular ones at the end of the campaign in several clicks;
  - The mobile application helps quickly control the promo display, the order on the shelves, and the relevance of the price tags.
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  Managing pronounced seasonality without lost sales and dead stocks

  Seasonality is quite pronounced for some product groups in the pet segment. Veterinary products (insect and flea pills, vaccines and contraceptives) and accessories (clothing for small dogs) sell worse in the off-season, and some are excluded from the matrix at all. If you don't apply a seasonality factor, you may end up with dead stock and write-offs after the season, or vice versa, lost sales during its peak.
  
  How this is solved with LEAFIO:
  - The system includes a module for short-, medium- and long-term demand forecasting;
  - Seasonality coefficients for each product group are calculated and applied automatically;
  - The system has a set of scenarios that can be applied depending on the area, region, or market situation for maximum order accuracy;
  - You can quickly perform seasonal SKU rotation across the entire chain using the auto-facing feature;
  - All seasonal changes in planograms are instantly assigned as a task to the store employees in charge, and they can easily report on its fulfillment using the mobile app.
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  Abandoned carts and overstock due to lack of inventory visibility across sales channels

  Pet stores often sell products through multiple channels, including brick-and-mortar stores, online marketplaces, and e-commerce websites. In the case of online channels, missing even one item can lead to the loss of the entire order. And increased orders, on the contrary, lead to overstocks, if not correctly predict the demand.
  
  LEAFIO enables you to:
  - Calculate the most accurate demand forecast across all channels, taking into account seasonality and promotions;
  - Automate the entire replenishment process from order placement to goods receipt considering the sales channels;
  - Achieve accurate inventory visibility by tracking sales and product movement throughout the channels;
  - Maximize product availability across the channels and reduce the percentage of abandoned carts.
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  The need for zoning the sales floor to avoid unpleasant smell and provide convenience for the customer

  Pet stores have a specific range of products: small animals, drugs, food, clothes, toys. It is important to adhere to storage and merchandise standards so that there is no unpleasant odor on the sales floor. Clear zoning according to product categories and customer needs is important to ensure the customer finds the right product quickly and buys some additional goods impulsively.
  
  With the LEAFIO software, pet retailers can:
  - Automatically create layouts based on set merchandising rules and merchandising proximity;
  - Zone shelves according to a selected attribute or combination of attributes - by price, country of origin, category, type, variety, blend, brand, etc.
  - Build effective communication between the head office and store employees to monitor the consistency of the shelf layout and receive timely feedback.
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  Ensuring optimal availability and assortment in a limited space

  In pet stores, the stock is often kept in the lay-out, which is fraught with a shortage of goods, empty or on the contrary cluttered shelves, if the orders are not calculated correctly. This requires careful planning to ensure optimal assortment, appropriate product storage, and ordering the right items at the right time.
  
  LEAFIO cloud solution will allow you to:
  - Provide optimal availability and buffer for each SKU through the most accurate forecasts;
  - Form merchandise layouts based on current balances and ensure inventory levels until the next shipment;
  - Automatically create planograms based on profitability and sales data to maximize margins per meter/foot of shelf;
  - Rotate the assortment based on the ABC-analysis, replacement of sold out positions with analogues and goods from fresh consignments
  - Due to SKU and sales analytics (total and per meter), identify passive items and replace them with more profitable products, which is crucial when the store's sales floor is limited.
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  Correct placement of different-sized goods

  Pet stores carry both treats in small cans and 15-kilogram packages of pet food. This requires the store to formulate and adhere to internal display rules. This also requires working with different types of equipment. It's important to make sure that the store's equipment and space for the product and category are chosen effectively. This can only be determined through analytics.
  
  LEAFIO enables pet retailers to:
  - Automatically generate planograms based on the available assortment, taking into account its size and volume, or copy it from excel spreadsheets;
  - Create different templates of shop equipment to create planograms for SKUs of different sizes;
  - Create instructions for assembling equipment/components, get them branded, and add comments to planograms to clarify the specifics of product placement on the shelves;
  - In a few clicks, analyze the efficiency of layouts and quickly make changes that are visible to all stores in the chain.
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  Creating and keeping in order "selling" promotional and brand zones

  These zones are used for displaying products of the same brand. Agreements with the supplier on the percentage of the shelf occupied by their brand must be fulfilled. Also, the retailer's desire to earn margins and customer convenience should be taken into account.
  
   With LEAFIO pet retailers can:
  - Automatically fill planogram zones with products based on selected attributes, such as brand name, supplier or distributor;
  - Assign a percentage of shelf space to specific brands or product groups when creating planograms, using dedicated zoning equipment and tools;
  - Leverage the data-driven deep analytics module to determine which brands or products should be more prominently displayed on the shelves;
  - Control the execution of the layout of brand zones and promotional stands with the help of an application on store employees' mobile devices.