Safety stock is an insurance premium. Nobody has ever told you the price.
You pay it every day, on every line, in every store, and nobody has ever told you the price or what cover you're getting for it.
Not a big problem anywhere. A small problem everywhere.
A static safety-stock number is a fixed premium against a variable risk. The lines that genuinely need cover do not get enough of it; the lines that do not need it get far too much. You are overpaying and still exposed, at the same time. That is not a tuning problem. It is the wrong shape of answer.
At 2,000 stores and 15,000 SKUs, the waste on any single line is pennies. Nobody would call a meeting about it. No one's KPI owns it, no report surfaces it, and the total never appears on a page.
Until you multiply it.
What share of your range is held at 99% availability when 95% would do?
Safety stock scales with the service-level z-score. Moving a line from 95% to 99% availability adds 41% to its safety stock. Moving it back releases 29%. Standard normal-demand arithmetic, not a RetailPulse output.
So the question is one line: what share of your range is held at 99% when 95% would do, and what is 29% of the safety stock on that share worth to you in cash?
Money released from inventory is the cheapest money in the business, because it is already yours. No lender, no dilution, no board paper.
You don't have to change anything.
RetailPulse runs alongside what you already have, in your building, and tells you what it would have ordered. It doesn't touch your system. It doesn't place an order. For the first few weeks it just keeps a scorecard against your own decisions.
If it's wrong, the box goes back and you've lost a month. If it's right, you'll know in eight weeks, from your own data, not from my case study.
You're contracted to your current planning vendor, not prohibited from measuring them.
Live in 48 hours, not next winter.
The enterprise anchor, the fixed implementation number, and a price that doesn't go up because you grew.
What it should cost →Nothing leaves your building.
Zero open inbound ports, one database per customer, a kill switch in seconds. The page your IT team reads without a sales call.
How it's built →The shape, and the anchor.
Enterprise suites are six figures and take a year. RetailPulse is a fraction of that, and implementation is a fixed number.
The pricing frame →