Adam Beniowski

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Expert commentary by Adam Beniowski

15 December 2022

I often wonder how companies that collect data on their in-store presence manually can make any business decisions at all.

🔎 At the 2018 Retail Summit, during our sharing session with speakers from Mars and Sandoz, we shared the following business case with the audience.
One of our clients had decided to measure its distribution performance while launching a new brand. The brand included 10 SKUs.
📝 During the first month of launch, our client measured distribution performance traditionally. By that, we mean using manually entered data from its sales reps.
📸 At the same time, those sales reps took photos during the same store visit, which were analyzed by our AI-supported image recognition system PRO.Display.

🎯 The intention was to deliver a new range of products to 2000 stores, and these stores were divided into 3 formats.
So a pretty simple case we had all encountered in our business lives while launching a new brand. The key here was a rare opportunity to compare manually entered data with automatic, or more accurately, AI-generated data.

📊 Results: the manual data was only 46% accurate. This meant errors in more than 50% of the reports. 97% of these errors came from manually adding more SKUs than were visible in the photos.

🗓 This has not changed over time. In 2022 we performed a similar test with another client; this time, the reports were 29% inaccurate. Slightly better, but still not good enough.

💡 How can you make reliable business decisions or draw conclusions from such highly corrupted data?

#prodisplay #fmcg #kpi #photorecognition #ai #probspl #expositionquality

TAGI: PhotoRecognition, ProDisplay, Probspl, AIinRetail, AI, fmcg, ImageRecognition, kpi, expositionquality

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“Walk a mile in one’s shoes before you give advice.” We’re here to tell you we have. Now, let’s talk.

08 December 2022

It’s up to you to choose: an experiment or an effective and quickly implemented project?

 It is worth using best practices acquired by our experts, who have not only implemented many projects with the use of Photo Recognition, but have also worked for many years in managerial positions in the best corporations in the world.
 
 Business requires the highest understanding and appreciation of the challenges inherent in the FMCG industry. Our experts bring this value right from the start. Contrary to the frequently encountered consulting model, they do not get to know the characteristics of the business during the project itself - they are aware of such needs through their own experience.

TAGI: ProDisplay, Probspl, AI, fmcg, kpi, perfectstore

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Case 3: What does it mean when we say that the promotion is present in stores?

11 August 2022

Let's start with a series of very important business questions which are often asked, but not always with fully defined control KPIs, leading to incorrect conclusions and financial losses:

TAGI: PhotoRecognition, ProDisplay, retail, AI, ArtificialIntelligence, promotion

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It is worth engaging users

01 April 2022

In December 2021 McKinsey published a report entitled “The State of AI in 2021”. This article is part of my subjective analysis of this publication. You can find the key conclusions at this link - I will also provide links to other parts of the analysis.

TAGI: PhotoRecognition, ProDisplay, Probspl, retail, AIinRetail, AI, ImageRecognition

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Experienced users are better at estimating the costs of AI

30 March 2022

In December 2021 McKinsey published a report entitled “The State of AI in 2021”. This article is part of my subjective analysis of this publication. You can find the key conclusions at this link - I will also provide links to other parts of the analysis.

TAGI: PhotoRecognition, ProDisplay, retail, AIinRetail, AI, ImageRecognition

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