Cookbooks / Sector cookbook
Retail
Accelerator for operating in the EDAVEN hub
Inventory, pricing and capital decisions with an owner and a tracked effect, on the systems the retailer already has.
A ready starting point for your industry
The cookbook is the offer version of the knowledge on this topic: it comes from the BoK, is implemented by Services with the CoE and starts running in the EDAVEN fabric, with people and agents working together.
- The knowledge
- BoK. Method, decisions, recipes and data for the topic, ready to adapt to your case.
- The implementation
- Services. The Arcogi team and the CoE apply the recipes to your case, as contracted.
- Where the operation runs
- The fabric. Data Ready, Organization and Agents and Decision Intelligence, as the case requires, with people and agents.
What the market is facing
Retail runs on thin margins, blended channels and daily price, inventory and assortment decisions across thousands of items and stores. The gain lies in deciding better and faster on what the company already has.
Pains the cookbook solves
Each pain has an answer in recipes applicable to your case.
What it costs today: Stockouts on some items and excess on others, at the same time.
What the cookbook changes: Inventory and availability recipes that cross balance, coverage and replenishment by item and store.
What it costs today: Discounts and promotions with no view of the real effect on margin.
What the cookbook changes: Pricing and promotion recipes with a baseline and a margin reading per decision.
What it costs today: Each area looks at a different sales and margin number.
What the cookbook changes: Data products with an owner and a single definition for sales, inventory and margin.
Executive view
Decisions gain method, indicators defined beforehand and a reading of the effect afterwards.
Decisions it organizes
- Purchasing and suppliers
- Replenishment and inventory
- Pricing and promotions
- Assortment
- Sales and channels
- Customers
- Store operations
- Losses and returns
- Profitability and capital
What your leadership receives
- Prioritized decisions, with an owner and a baseline.
- Recipes applied to your case, first in shadow operation.
- Indicators defined beforehand and measured afterwards.
- The proposal for the next step, with an exit criterion.
Technical view
Which data goes in, how the recipe is organized and where it connects.
Data and source systems
- Sales and receipts, from POS and e-commerce
- Inventory by item, store and distribution center
- Purchasing, suppliers and receipts
- Price, promotion and cost
Connections
Open to adapters and connectors with the ecosystems you already use, such as Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, GCP, Microsoft and others. Connections are defined in each project.
What comes with each recipe
- Problem and decisionGoal, context, alternatives and expected result.
- Data and indicatorsSources, definitions, quality and starting reference.
- People and agentsOwners, activities and approvals.
- Application and evidenceAdaptation roadmap, tests, exceptions and measurement.
How to start
From the first case to continuous operation, a ladder with an exit criterion at each step.
Organize and govern what already runs
Organization & Agents
Organize and govern the agents that already exist, each with an owner, an accepted limit and a record of every act.
Structure the first case
VÉRTICE Executivo
A critical decision is read end to end: data, owners and baseline. It ends with the chosen recipes and the proposal for the next step.
Apply a capability
Decision Sprint
One to three recipes run in shadow operation, beside the human decision, on the baseline.
Operate and follow
MDC · Managed Decision Cell
The recipes start operating under supervision, and the effect is tracked against the baseline.
Recipes guide adaptation and supervised implementation. Scope, integrations and acceptance criteria are defined in the proposal; examples and screens use synthetic data.
Which part of your operation needs to move forward?
Start with a recurring decision or an outcome that matters. Together we identify the data, people and first capability required.