Helen Kom
Product Director · LEAFIO AI LinkedIn10 episodes
Questions Helen Kom answered
Each station manager independently handled forecasting, ordering, and replenishment. The lack of a standardized methodology contributed to frequent errors, overstock, lost sales, availability problems, and inconsistent inventory turnover.
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The connection prevents inventory and merchandising teams from operating in silos. It allows forecasting and ordering to use current planogram and shelf-capacity data while ensuring merchandising decisions are supported by sufficient stock.
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The project began with technical data integration and a methodological review of existing processes. It then moved through user training and limited pilots before scaling the solutions and transferring ongoing optimization to customer success.
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Inventory reports exposed specialized KPIs and automatically grouped reasons for lost sales. Merchandising analytics highlighted layout gaps, slow movers, facing requirements, and differences between a product or category’s share of sales and share of shelf space.
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The company plans to move order supervision fully to the central office. Dedicated planners would oversee system-generated orders while station employees focus more heavily on customer service.
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In Helen Kom's words
“Traditionally, these two processes operate in silos.”
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“We do not like standards. Each and every company has its own processes and its own specifics.”
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“We are trying to transfer all the routine tasks to the system that can be handled by the system even better than by the manager.”
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“One of the core principles of S&OP is the unified forecasts that are cross-checked through all the departments.”
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“Not only the accuracy is important here, but at the same time it is extremely important for retail business to have fast results.”
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