What if every decision across your stores started with the same view of demand?
The Connected Store: Why Retail Must Move From Disconnected Decisions to Connected Execution
Retailers are not short on technology. The challenge is that workforce planning, scheduling, fresh production, inventory, and replenishment often operate in separate systems using different forecasts.
The result? Too much labor at the wrong time. Too little product when customers want it. Excess inventory, unnecessary waste, and store teams scrambling to keep up.
Join Charlotte Belke, Analyst at Nucleus Research, and Tom Herman of Northgate Market for a practical conversation about connecting demand, labor, production, and execution around one shared forecast.
Northgate operates a complex fresh environment across 50 stores, with more than half of its sales coming from products it produces. Through real-world examples, from managing products with five-hour shelf lives to producing more than nine million tamales, Tom will share how Northgate is building a more connected and precise operating model.
What you’ll learn
- Why strong retail systems can still produce poor results when they operate from different forecasts
- How one demand signal can connect workforce planning, fresh production, inventory and store execution
- Why matching labor, skills, and availability to demand is essential to successful execution
- How Northgate’s focus on freshness and multiple daily production cycles helped increase unit sales of freshly baked products by 15% to 20%
- Where AI could help store leaders improve scheduling and inventory decisions
Is your store operating from one forecast—or several competing versions of demand?
Discover what becomes possible when every decision begins with the same view of the customer.
Put Your Q4 Labor Plan to the Test
Q4 rarely unfolds exactly as expected. Promotions can outperform forecasts, fulfillment demand can shift, hiring can fall behind and customer traffic can arrive differently across stores and departments. Logile’s Enterprise Productivity Simulator helps retailers model those scenarios before peak arrives, compare cost, service and productivity tradeoffs, and understand how changes to the plan could affect stores before decisions reach the floor.
