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Shelves Don't Stock Themselves. Decisions Do.

Retail operations bleed margin through stockouts, excess inventory, and labor misalignment — all symptoms of disconnected decisions. Makkook connects demand sensing, inventory policy, and workforce scheduling into one computable system so every replenishment, allocation, and staffing decision is optimal.

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Industry Challenges

The Decisions That Erode Retail Margins

These problems exist in every retail operation. The question is whether you solve them reactively or with optimization.

Stockouts on Best Sellers, Excess on Slow Movers
Your top 50 SKUs stock out every month while $18M sits in slow-moving inventory. Safety stock is set by rule of thumb — same formula for fast-sellers and seasonal items. Nobody recalibrates after demand shifts.
$2.4M quarterly lost sales from stockouts
14–20% excess working capital tied up
Markdown losses on overstock
Forecasts Are Wrong and Nobody Adjusts
Your demand plan was built in September. It is now January and three product launches, two competitor promotions, and a supply disruption have invalidated half the assumptions. The plan is still running.
30–50% forecast error on new products
No signal from promotions or weather
Static plans in a dynamic market
Stores Are Overstaffed at 2 PM, Understaffed at 5 PM
Labor schedules are built from templates, not traffic patterns. Peak hours have checkout queues while midday shifts have idle staff. Customer satisfaction drops while payroll stays flat.
8–15% labor cost misallocation
Peak-hour service failures
Employee burnout from unbalanced shifts
Replenishment Decisions Are Invisible
An auto-replenishment engine fires 12,000 order lines per day. Nobody knows why specific quantities were ordered, which constraints were active, or what would change if a supplier lead time shifted by 3 days.
No explainability on order quantities
Zero audit trail on policy overrides
Reactive firefighting vs. proactive control
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Demand & Inventory Intelligence Demo

See how Makkook optimizes inventory decisions across a 340-store network with 12,000 SKUs using AI-driven demand sensing and constraint-aware replenishment.

Demand & Inventory Intelligence
AI demand sensing at SKU-store-day level with statistically calibrated safety stock and automated replenishment decisions.
Cut Stockouts by 35%. Free $2.5M in Working Capital.
This demo shows Makkook optimizing a real retail network: 340 stores, 12,000 SKUs, mixed demand patterns. Watch the system replace rule-of-thumb safety stock with statistically justified policies, reduce inventory investment by 14%, and improve service levels by 3 points — all with full explainability through the Control Tower.
SKU-store-day demand sensing with ML
Service-level-driven safety stock optimization
Promotion uplift and seasonal scenario simulation
Traceable, auditable replenishment decisions
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Workforce optimization, markdown planning, and assortment intelligence modules are in development.

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