What counting costs you, with nothing assumed.
Four inputs, all yours, and the output is arithmetic on those four and nothing else. It sizes the counting labor, which is the part your own figures already settle. Everything the count also protects, from lost sales to markdown, gets measured in a POC rather than modeled here.
Nothing is gated. No email address, and the result does not disappear behind a form.
Move the sliders.
Store count and counting hours describe what you do today. The reduction and the hourly rate are the two assumptions, so both are inputs your finance team can argue with rather than constants buried in the result.
Adjust the four inputs to see the counting hours returned each year, the hours left, and what those hours are worth at your own loaded rate.
Three things it calculates, and four it will not.
Every assumption in this model is a slider you can see and move. There are two of them, the reduction and the hourly rate, and the rest is arithmetic on numbers you supplied.
Counting labor, and only that.
- Hours today store count multiplied by the annual hours each store spends counting
- Hours returned those hours at the reduction you set, defaulted to 90% and adjustable down if your cycle is already partly automated
- Labor value hours returned at the fully loaded rate you enter, so it reflects what the hour actually costs you
The bigger half.
- Lost sales on stock the system says you have
- Markdown taken on the wrong items at the wrong time
- Shrink found months after it happened
- Online orders canceled against inaccurate store stock
Those four are the larger numbers, and none of them can be calculated from a store count. A 30-day POC measures them against your own stock, which is why the button goes there rather than to a bigger slider.
A model is an argument. A count is evidence.
Thirty days in one or two of your stores replaces every assumption on this page with a measurement taken from your own stock.