Retail Peak Season Checklist: 17 Checks Before Peak Week
A retail readiness checklist for chains going into peak holiday season without a data team. Sell-through, weeks of supply, retail replenishment, markdown triggers and phantom stock, with the formula and the red flag number for each check.
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Inside the e-book
What it actually takes to make AI analytics trustworthy in production.
Peak is six weeks long and most of it is decided in October. Stock gets placed, promos get locked, markdown dates get set. By the time December tells you what went wrong, the only lever left is discount. Here's what you get.
Seventeen checks across seven sections, sequenced to the calendar from September through the January close.
The same five parts on every check: why it costs you, the question, the method, the red flag, the action.
Real thresholds, not judgement calls. 9% of season in one week. 45 days of cover. 2% of on-hand value.
The spreadsheet method written out. Which columns to pull, which pivot to build, what grain to stop at.
A note per section on what changes when these run every week instead of once.
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