Vendor & Assortment Consulting
You know which vendors are loud. We show you which vendors are profitable, which SKUs are earning their shelf, and where the assortment has gaps your competitors are filling.
Request a vendor reviewWhat we do
Vendor scorecards
Fill rate, lead-time reliability, cost movement, returns, and total landed economics on one page per vendor.
SKU rationalization
Productivity per SKU, cannibalization, tail analysis, and an exit list with the revenue-risk math attached.
Coverage & gap analysis
Where the assortment is thin against demand, competitors, or category benchmarks — and what filling it is worth.
Vendor consolidation
Overlap mapping, switching cost, service tradeoffs, and the leverage case you take into the next negotiation.
New-item performance
Did the last 300 new items earn their inventory? A repeatable read on launch performance and lifecycle stage.
Category profitability
Margin after the costs people forget: freight, returns, carrying cost, and the cash tied up holding it.
What you get
Common questions
Will this blow up our vendor relationships?
The opposite, usually. Good vendors like being measured — it is the ones avoiding the scorecard that tell you something.
What data do you need?
Item master, sales history, purchase orders and receipts, and cost detail. If receipts are messy, that becomes a finding rather than a blocker.
Bring us the messy data.
Whichever practice fits, the first step is the same: one conversation about what is actually broken.