Goods Checker
Ecosystem for merchandising process automation.
Computer vision powered solution for FMCG/CPG manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies and merchandising agencies.
What is Goods Checker?
Goods Checker is a SaaS solution that automates all merchandising stages: creating and editing planograms, analyzing SKUs on store shelves, comparing layouts against planograms, and generating detailed analytics.
Goods Checker helps to recognize the correct layout, including availability or lack of goods on the shelves with an accuracy of 98%. The solution handles SKUs of all sizes and shapes.
Goods Checker generates detailed analytics with required breakdown and integrates with any BI system.
Thanks to Goods Checker, merchandisers conduct an audit of the outlet faster and better and analytical reports are based on accurate and reliable data that are available immediately after the audit.
It takes only 2-3 weeks to launch a pilot project.
Who is Goods Checker for?
Goods Checker helps you monitor merchandisers’ performance and improve the accuracy of retail audits.
With Goods Checker you can:
- Reduce errors and enhance the quality of audit reports
- Cut audit time for retail locations by up to 50%
Goods Checker provides detailed analytics tailored to your business needs.
For merchandiser performance:
| Key performance metrics for clients:
|
Project Results
A merchandising agency in Eastern Europe implemented Goods Checker to automate and accelerate product display audits. The solution reduced audit time per retail location by 60%, sped up report generation by merchandisers by 70%, and achieved a recognition accuracy of over 95%. The system covers 4,500+ retail locations and processes more than 200 photos daily across 62 non-food SKUs.
Goods Checker enables real-time monitoring of brand presence in pharmacies and streamlines the work of medical representatives.
What you get with Goods Checker
In-depth shelf analysis:
| Performance monitoring for medical representatives:
|
Flexible reporting:
| Rapid response to operational challenges:
|
Project Results
A pharmaceutical manufacturer implemented Goods Checker to automate display audits in over 10,000 pharmacies. The solution leverages computer vision to compare shelf layouts with planograms, ensuring accurate brand visibility and employee performance monitoring. The system processes 143 SKUs and POSM items, providing instant analytics on KPIs to enable informed management decisions based on reliable data.
Goods Checker automates display monitoring in cafes and restaurants, helping ensure consistent product availability and optimize staff workflow.
Integrate computer vision into your surveillance systems and get detailed analytics on what’s happening on store shelves.
Goods Checker Features:
| Analytics You Can Get:
|
Project Results
Video surveillance systems provider AVS Services implemented Goods Checker so their clients could continuously monitor product availability on displays. After the pilot implementation, operational metrics improved significantly: shelf fill rates during peak hours increased by 25%, and staff were able to focus on customer service instead of constantly monitoring displays. Goods Checker successfully identifies shelf gaps even with constantly changing ready-to-eat food assortments.
How to access analytics
Goods Checker offers two types of analytics for effective merchandising management: online and offline.
Online analytics processes photos from the Goods Checker or your own apps in real time. This enables instant KPI tracking and rapid response to issues. Implementation takes as little as two weeks.
Offline analytics works with pre-collected photos from various sources. This option is ideal for quickly analyzing accumulated data without changing your business processes. Results are updated once per day.
Objective KPIs
Objective KPIs
Managers set realistic KPIs and perform objective assessment of merchandiser.
Causes of non-compliance with planograms
Causes of non-compliance with planograms
Managers track the reasons of non-compliance with planograms: being out of stock, broken equipment, etc.
Assessment of the actual situation on shelves
Assessment of the actual situation on shelves
Managers receive information about the actual situation in stores and on shelves: the share of the shelf occupied by your products and competitors’ products, the quality of work of employees.
Goods Checker product recognition software helps:
- Optimize merchandising business processes and manage merchandisers’ visits to points of sale in less than 60 seconds
- Obtain data on planogram displays, compare realograms and planograms in real-time, and quickly make changes due to high speed and quality of data processing
- Increase sales volume through retail analytics, prompt data acquisition from outlets on their own and competitors’ products display, and greater involvement of merchandisers in the process
- Stay one step ahead of competition by analyzing competitors’ SKUs and their shelf share
- Integrate all the system modules with any necessary internal systems at the customer’s request
- Save on hardware and its support by utilizing the IBA Group Data Center facilities, get technical support of programmers and data experts without hiring additional staff
- Controlling POS materials, both your own and those of your competitors
- Minimize the impact of human error in data processing.
What Does Goods Checker Consist Of?
- SKU recognition accuracy – over 95%
- Analysis of the SKU since its launch
- Analysis of merchandising data by outlets, SKUs, merchandisers
- Analysis of price tags and promotional materials
- Analysis of shelf share by category, brand, region
- Competitor shelf share and SKU analysis
- Analytics is created according to your requests: shelf share (yours and competitors), percentage of planogram compliance by region, etc.
- Integration with any BI system
- Reports are updated immediately after the outlet audit
- Just a web browser is required to view the reports
- Automatic comparison of layout against planogram in real time
- Easy and fast planogram creation
- Convenient handling of planograms with a large number of outlets and types of equipment
- Convenient category tree and search even with thousands of item names
- Easily add new SKU and equipment; when adding, you can specify any parameters: barcode, height, width, etc.
- Checking the planogram for correctness: products in the air, products with intersections with the shelf, overlapping products, a wide product on a small one
- View the planogram in the mobile application
- Planograms are available in the application immediately after being generated in Plano Creator and can be used for comparison against the layout
- Selecting a retail outlet and making routes
- Offline and online modes
- Merging several photos of a long shelf into one and checking the quality of photos
- Automatic comparison of layout against planogram in real time
- Identification of problems on the shelves and prompt report on the causes: out-of-stock, equipment failure, etc.
- Fraud protection
How Does Goods Checker Work?
1/ Merchandiser takes pictures of SKU shelf displays
2/ The pictures are uploaded to the IBA Group Data Center
3/ The artificial intelligence module analyses the pictures, performs product recognition, then makes assessments according to a pre-set scenario
4/ Goods Checker generates data and reports on the server side
5/ Users gain access to reports and analytics via web browser immediately after uploading a picture.
Our Expertise
KEY TECHNOLOGIES
Python, Tensorflow, OpenCV, Pytorch, R
TOOLS
Python, Tensorflow, OpenCV, Pytorch, R, Pillow, albumentations, scikit-image, numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, DLib, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, sqlalchemy, ZeroMQ, Kafka, pyexecerate, pyopenssl, contextlib2, flask, Docker, Apache Airflow, git, DVC, AngularJS, REST API