Furniture has 14-week lead times and zero room for error.
Wend & Oak's six European showrooms each carry a slightly different mix of mid-century and contemporary furniture. Long lead times mean every wrong call costs three months. Stokk's per-location replenishment treats each showroom as its own market, sizing orders against the demand that showroom actually sees. Fulfilment runs through Shopify B2C and showroom-direct sales — both pick from the same plan.
“Furniture 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.”
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.
ReadBeauty 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.
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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