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A national retail pharmacy chain required the support of RGIS to complete focused inventory counts at 50 of their stores. This was to enable them to understand their shrink levels within the shaving category as this had been identified as having very high shrinkage. The pharmacy chain wanted to also find out if installing new fixtures would reduce the shrinkage level within the shaving category.
THE CHALLENGE
A national retail pharmacy chain identified high shrinkage in the shaving category within all their stores. They needed to partner with a company that could test and validate the impact of new fixtures on their shrink, they came to RGIS to help solve this issue:
- Inventories on one specific category – shaving
- Focused category stocktakes to take place prior to new fixtures being installed and again after they had been installed
- Select 50 stores to be counted
- Calculate shrink before and after fixture installation
- Regional RGIS teams with experience to execute stocktakes
- Work extensively with the national pharmacy chain loss prevention team
- The selected 50 stores needed to be counted within a specific timescale
Sectors
Why RGIS?
Customers choose RGIS for stocktaking on a specific category to understand shrink because our precise, focused audits identify losses at item level, reveal root causes, and provide the insights needed to reduce shrink and improve profitability.
Our Solutions
Following discussions and extensive planning to enable scheduling of all stores in a small timescale RGIS implemented the following plan:
Local RGIS teams performed 50 stocktakes in one week prior to the fixtures being installed
The same teams returned to these 50 stores two months later to complete a comparative focused category stocktake
Conducting the focused category count helped the customer determine its Return On Investment (ROI) for full chain deployment of the new fixtures
RGIS set up an electronic data delivery with tablets at the end of each focused category stocktake
Results
The customer could compare the results of each focused category stocktake count and make a decision about the effectiveness of the new fixtures in less than three months:
The decision to roll out new fixtures in all stores would be based on data from this RGIS project if the shrink had reduced after the fixtures had been installed
Quick data turnaround allowed the retailer to quickly make important decisions
Precise counts and shrink assessment allowed for testing of the proposed fixtures for all stores
Conclusion
By outsourcing the focused category stocktake counts to RGIS, the retailer gained fast, precise shrink insights that enabled them to evaluate the effectiveness of the new fixtures within three months and make confident, data-driven decisions about a full rollout across all stores.
