Beauty inventory is a thousand small bets.
Lumière runs nine clean-beauty stores plus a strong Shopify business. SKU count moves fast — launches every six weeks, retirements every quarter. The team adopted Stokk's counting module first, then forecasting, then replenishment in the same quarter. The wallet-pass loyalty programme replaced their email tool and now drives 28% of weekday revenue.
“Beauty inventory is a thousand small bets. New launches go viral, old hero SKUs need topping up, sample sizes need to land at the right store. Stokk's forecasts are right often enough that I trust them — and when they're not, it tells me what changed and why. My count cycle went from a yearly shutdown to rolling weekly counts our staff actually like doing.”
Same operating model, different retail.
We were stocking out on the same five SKUs every Saturday for years. Stokk noticed before we did and ordered them up two weeks early. The Monday Brief is the first thing my buyer opens — Excel hasn't been touched in three months.
ReadFurniture has 14-week lead times and zero room for error. We used to over-order to be safe, then write down what didn't move. Stokk's purchasing brief sizes each week against the showroom we're actually shipping out of, not a national average. Inventory is leaner and we haven't missed a delivery date in five months.
ReadWe came off AGR after seven years. Migration took two weeks, not six months. The thing I didn't expect: every store manager actually trusts the draft now. They edit maybe four lines out of a 280-line replenishment, where before they'd rebuild it from scratch. The store-side overrides feed back into next week's plan.
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