Enterprise›Retail

Stockrooms that answer back

The sales floor has a planogram. The backroom usually has someone's memory. TracStor gives every bay, shelf and tote in the stockroom an address, so any associate can put product away and find it again in seconds.

Pilot it in one store Retail solution brief

Enterprise›Retail

Stock you own but can’t sell

When product is in the building but not where anyone expects it, it may as well be out of stock.

16%of items couldn’t be found by shoppers because they were misplaced, cutting profit by more than a quarterRaman, DeHoratius & Ton, 2001¹

65%of about 370,000 inventory records were inaccurate across 37 storesDeHoratius & Raman, 2008²

52%of shoppers left a store in the past three months without everything they came for; 30% of them couldn’t find it on the shelfZebra Shopper Study, 2025³

$1.73Ta year in global out-of-stocks and overstocks, 6.5% of retail salesIHL Group, 2025⁴

Retail›Where it helps

The moments that cost a sale

“Do you have it in the back?”

The associate searches by name or SKU and walks straight to the tote, instead of leaving the customer at the fitting room for ten minutes.

Backroom › Bay 3 › Shelf C › Tote B3-C-12

Receiving and put-away

Scan the tote, then scan, say or snap what goes in. Overstock lands at a known address instead of “somewhere on the top shelf”.

Backroom › Overstock › Bay 7 › Top

Pickup orders

Online orders go to a labeled pickup shelf. Whoever is at the counter finds order #4471 on the first try.

Front counter › Pickup wall › Shelf P2

Seasonal and display storage

Window kits, fixtures, signage and holiday decor, stored once and found next year by whoever is on shift.

Mezzanine › Seasonal rack › Display totes 4–6

Counts against your system

Tap a bay's NFC tag and scan what's there. TracStor Count compares it with your POS or ERP while you count, and shows where the “missing” units really are.

Bay 3-C: system 9 · counted 6 · 2 found in Bay 7

New hires, day one

The stockroom's layout lives in the app, not in one person's head. A first-shift associate can find product without asking.

Store #0142 › Backroom › floor plan

Retail›Who uses it

From the stockroom to the district office

Who	What they do in TracStor	Status
Associates	Search, put away, move totes, add photos and notes, print labels	Ready today
Store managers	Lay out the stockroom and floor plan, count by location, export lists	Ready today
Store teams	One shared stockroom inventory across everyone's phones	In the pilot
Inventory and loss prevention	Counts by location reconciled against the POS or ERP; adjustment files back to the system	In the pilot
District and operations	All stores side by side; time-to-find and accuracy by store	Planned

Retail›What a pilot measures

We measure it in your store, not on a slide.

Every pilot starts with a baseline taken before labeling and ends with the same measurements taken in the same store.

Time to find

Seconds from “do you have it?” to product in hand, for a sample of backroom items.

Put-away time

Minutes to receive and shelve a delivery, and how much ends up at a known location.

Location accuracy

Share of sampled items found at the location TracStor says, at week two and week eight.

Sources

Raman, DeHoratius & Ton, “Execution: The Missing Link in Retail Operations”, California Management Review, 2001, summarized in Chicago Booth Review. chicagobooth.edu. Academic; 2001.
DeHoratius & Raman, “Inventory Record Inaccuracy”, Management Science, 2008: about 370,000 records across 37 stores of one retailer. pubsonline.informs.org. Peer-reviewed; 2008.
Zebra Technologies, 18th Annual Global Shopper Study, October 2025, about 4,200 shoppers. zebra.com. Vendor study.
IHL Group, inventory distortion research, September 2025: $1.73 trillion a year globally, 6.5% of retail sales. ihlservices.com. Sponsored by a software vendor.
US Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census, First Look, January 2024: about 1.0 million retail establishments. census.gov.