Run assortment straight off SAP
Ward reads straight from POS transactions, inventory positions, purchase orders from SAP Retail, then stitches together them with weather, events, and demographics to produce assortment findings.
Assortment Planning on SAP Retail data
Here is assortment planning in plain terms. Ward analyzes sell-through by store cluster to recommend which SKUs to add, drop, or reallocate.
What Ward does with that: Ward clusters stores by demographic, traffic, and sales patterns, then measures SKU performance against cluster benchmarks.
How the connection works. Ward reads from SAP via RFC/BAPI or OData APIs. No changes to your SAP configuration. Read-only access. Data syncs on your schedule.
Key capabilities
- Planogram optimization inputs
- Store cluster segmentation
- SKU rationalization recommendations
- Whitespace opportunity detection
Chat
Ask anything. Ward routes to the right agent and returns cited answers.
I pulled Store 37’s last 28 days against the chain baseline. Two root causes, both compounding.
| Signal | Finding |
|---|---|
labor_efficiency | Rev/labor-hour −22% vs. cluster, staffing mismatch at 11a–1p peak |
inventory.fresh | Fresh fill 83%, backroom replenishment lag at 2–4p |
promo.lift | BOGO crackers cannibalized Brand Y by 28%, net category +6% |
Recommend: re-baseline Store 37 schedule against true peak, raise replen window to 1p, and review the BOGO before next cycle.
labor_scheduling…
Reporting
Pinned views built from saved data-lake queries. Every number re-derivable from its SQL.
| Model | Horizon | MAPE |
|---|---|---|
holt_winters | 4wk | 4.1% |
arima_sarimax | 13wk | 8.9% |
gbm_demand | 1wk | 2.1% |
bayes_hier | new store | 11.4% |
Sources
Connect external systems to the data lake.
| Name | Type | Last sync |
|---|---|---|
sap_pos_transactions | import | 2m ago |
sap_inventory_shrinkage | import | 2m ago |
sap_labor_scheduling | import | 14m ago |
retail_inventory_weekly | import | 1h ago |
retail_google_ads_daily | import | 1h ago |
retail_meta_ads_daily | import | 1h ago |
retail_ga4_website_daily | import | 1h ago |
Policies
Browse and manage Cedar access policies for your tenant.
| Policy ID | Effect | Resources |
|---|---|---|
merch-read-default | permit | Model::* |
finance-read-shrinkage | permit | Model::"inventory_shrinkage" |
vendor-blocked | forbid | Model::"labor_*" |
region-west-only | permit | Tenant::"acme" |
What Ward has eyes on.
The assortment model runs on a daily cycle, not on a reporting calendar. It spots the pattern, accounts for the driver, and attaches a recommended action before the number reaches a review deck.
Ward reads POS transactions, inventory positions, purchase orders from SAP Retail on a read-only connection. Nothing is written back, and your ERP configuration does not change. SAP stays the system of record.
Why this combination
is its own problem.
Assortment Planning needs POS transactions and inventory positions at minimum. SAP Retail carries both, at the grain the model needs. That is the whole integration story: no middleware, no staging warehouse, no custom extract.
What the first 90 days
actually look like.
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Week 1: read-only connection
Ward plugs into SAP Retail with read-only credentials and begins ingesting POS transactions and inventory positions. No config changes on your side. First daily cards arrive in two days.
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Weeks 2 to 3: baselines
Ward needs roughly two weeks of history per store to separate a real deviation from normal variance. During this window the insight cards are directionally right and the thresholds are still moving.
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Weeks 4 to 12: operating rhythm
Insight cards arrive every morning and get triaged like any other queue. Most teams find the volume settles into something one person clears in ten minutes. What matters is the action rate, not the alert count.
How Ward connects to SAP Retail
Ward connects to SAP Retail (S/4HANA, ECC, CAR) via standard BAPIs and IDocs. Transaction data, inventory positions, and master data flow into Ward without custom development.
Setup: Ward reads from SAP via RFC/BAPI or OData APIs. No changes to your SAP configuration. Read-only access. Data syncs on your schedule.
Data Ward reads from SAP
Impact metrics with SAP
Data lake enrichment
Ward enriches SAP data with: POS transactions, Weather & events, Competitor pricing, Loyalty & CRM, Supplier fill rates
Frequently asked questions
Ward reads from SAP via RFC/BAPI or OData APIs. No changes to your SAP configuration. Read-only access. Data syncs on your schedule. Data points include: POS transactions, Inventory positions, Purchase orders, Material master, Vendor master, Promotion calendar.
First insight cards arrive within 48 hours of data connection. Ward needs approximately 2 weeks to establish stable baselines for your specific operation.
No. Ward sits on top of your existing stack. It is the proactive intelligence layer that watches your data continuously and delivers insight cards, so your team acts on findings instead of hunting for them.
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