On-Shelf Availability: The Key To Recurring and Growing Sales

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What is On-Shelf Availability?

On-shelf availability (OSA) is a metric that measures the availability of a product for sale to the customer at any given time. In other words, OSA is the number of products readily available to the customers to buy from a store. For instance, a skincare brand wants an assortment of ten of its best-selling SKUs to be present inside a store, but only five are available on the shelf. This attests that OSA for that particular product assortment is 50%. It is a cumulative result of three stages: Warehouse Availability, Store Availability, and Shelf Availability.

Product Availability, according to Lambert, Stock & Ellram, can be defined as the “customer service output of a successful supply chain system.” In this regard, availability can be calculated as:

On-Shelf Availability Vs Out Of Stock

On-Shelf Availability (OSA) & Out of Stock (OOS) are the two sides of the same coin. Mathematically, OSA is the mirror opposite of OOS, i.e, while OSA focuses on the fraction that is available, OOS represents the gap.

Below are a few figures to better understand the correlation and the impact on sales when shoppers do not find the products on the shelf:

31% of shoppers buy the product in need but from a different store, be it online or in-person.
26% end up opting for a different brand.
19% buy the same brand, but a different variant (size, flavor, etc.)
15% postpone the purchase to the next date.
9% do not buy.

*Source: ECR Europe

Why is OSA Critical To FMCG Brands

For manufacturers, a 3% increase in OSA equals a 1% increase in sales

For retailers, a 2% increase in OSA equals a 1% increase in sales

Sales in the CPG industry are highly volatile and depend on a lot of factors - some regulatory, others not. A playing ground with conditions like this, the CPG brand leaders ensure that they are on top of everything that can be tamed. OSA hits the number one priority to set things straight. Ensuring that a product is on the shelf, at all given times is essential for the user to make a purchase. Furthermore, additional elements like eye level product positioning, adjacencies that induce impulse/complimentary purchase, replenishing out-of-stock in time, etc.

Since On-Shelf Availability is directly proportional to the sales value, poor OSA is a nightmare for FMCG companies as it directly shows a blow to revenue generation. Here are some of the most common causes that impede the OSA score.

01

Poor Inventory Management

02

Inaccurate Forecasting

03

A Lack of Planning & Management

04

Data Silos

05

Ordering Problems

Why FMCG brands should be focusing on elevating their OSA scores

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Improved Return-On-Sales
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Accurate Demand Forecasting
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Better On-Hand Resource Utilization
Enhance Sales Force Efficiency
Streamline the Supply Chain Workflow
Eliminate Human Error

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Improving OSA with Infilect: The Key To Massive CPG Sales

In order to identify the obstacles and address them with precision, one needs to know in real time what products are out of stock, and in what geographic location. This calls for a robust data collation system that makes daily demand data available and accessible to all the key stakeholders involved.

One law from the textbooks that facilitate effective management of OOS and thereby increases OSA across stores is Pareto’s Law. It states that: “Focusing on the top 20% of the offending items and stores will provide 80% (and often more) of the benefit.”

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Improving OSA with Infilect: The Key To Massive CPG Sales

Infilect offers the most advanced and comprehensive image recognition AI that lets you track the product position on shelves, its adjacencies, the share-of-shelf, trade promotion efficacy, brand visibility, and much more. Such detailed information in real-time equips the key decision-makers with metaphorical binoculars that let them see the happenings inside a store.

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20% Improvement in Share-of-Shelf and On-Shelf Availability of SKUs
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