Find the Operational Blind Spots Eating Your Retail Margin
Olyra's AI Operations Consulting is a 4-week AI diagnostic for multi-store retailers and restaurant chains. We map every layer of your operation — inventory, labor, omnichannel, store variance, loss — and surface the changes that recover the most margin, fastest.
If you run a retail chain, you're probably leaking margin in five places
Inventory carrying cost 12-25% of revenue
You have stockouts AND overstock at the same time. Replenishment is rules-based and stale. Demand forecasts miss seasonal swings.
Labor schedules built store-by-store
Each store manager schedules independently with no demand intelligence. Overtime is unmanaged. Labor cost as % of sales swings 4-8 points across stores.
Omnichannel orchestration breaks every week
Online order, in-store pickup, returns. Each handoff has gaps. Customer experience suffers and you eat the cost of the recovery.
Loss prevention is reactive
Shrink shows up in the monthly inventory count, not in the moment. Patterns are invisible. The same stores leak the same way every quarter.
Store performance variance you can't explain
Top stores do 3x what bottom stores do per square foot. The reasons are buried in POS, traffic, labor, and merchandising data nobody is correlating.
Real estate decisions on lagging data
You're deciding which leases to renew based on last year's POS report. The traffic, conversion, and trade-area data exists — nobody's combining it.
average operational efficiency improvement within 120 days
Across logistics, retail, manufacturing, and services clients. For retail specifically, this typically maps to inventory carrying cost reductions of 15-22% and labor cost variance compressed by 3-5 points across stores. See our results methodology →
How our consulting engagement works in retail
A focused 4-week diagnostic. We work from POS to the back room.
Assess
Weeks 1-2: We connect to your POS, inventory, OMS, and labor systems. We profile every channel, every store, every category for the past 12 months.
Illuminate
Week 3: We surface the operational blind spots — quantified in dollars, ranked by ROI, and mapped to specific AI or process interventions.
Accelerate
Week 4 + beyond: You receive a prioritized action plan. We can build and deploy the highest-ROI interventions — demand sensing, AI labor scheduling, replenishment optimization.
The Multi-Store Retail Operations Scorecard
A 12-question diagnostic that produces a personalized report grading your operation across the six dimensions where multi-store retailers leak the most margin — with industry benchmarks and three specific recommendations.
- Score your operation in under 5 minutes
- Industry benchmarks for specialty, grocery, restaurant, and omnichannel
- Three personalized recommendations with estimated margin impact
- No demo call required
How a 47-store specialty chain rebuilt replenishment and cut inventory carrying cost 19%
The challenge
A multi-store retailer was running replenishment on rules built five years earlier. Demand had shifted. Inventory carrying cost had crept to 22% of revenue. Stockouts of best-sellers and overstock of slow-movers were happening simultaneously across the same stores.
Olyra deployed a 4-week consulting diagnostic. We connected POS, inventory, OMS, and labor systems. We profiled demand by store, category, and season. We rebuilt the replenishment logic with AI demand sensing and SKU-level forecasting.
Read the full case study →Measured Outcomes
What retail operators say about working with Olyra
The consulting diagnostic found 4 points of margin hiding in our labor scheduling. We didn't change software — we changed how we used the software we had.
I asked Olyra to find $500K. They found $1.8M in working capital alone. Best ROI on a consulting engagement I've done in 10 years.
Senior consultants on every visit, not juniors. They understood the business in week one. The recommendations were ready to implement, not just nice slides.
Ana Fernandes
Ana spent 15 years in operations leadership at retail and consumer-goods companies before founding Olyra. The firm exists to bring AI-driven operational intelligence to mid-market retailers — companies that need the insight without the Big Four price tag.
Olyra's team operates from Miami and São Paulo, serving retailers across North America and Brazil. Every consulting engagement is led by senior consultants with hands-on retail operations experience.
Connect with Ana on LinkedIn →Common questions
Find the margin you've been leaving on the table.
Get the free retail scorecard. Or skip ahead and book a 15-minute strategy call this week.
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