Case Study: Academy Sports + Outdoors drives revenue growth with Invent Analytics

Academy Sports + Outdoors Drives Profitable Growth with Invent Analytics

Academy Sports + Outdoors, a major sporting goods retailer, was facing challenges with its traditional replenishment system, including workload inefficiencies and difficulty managing over 19 million records. Their goals were to improve inventory productivity, fulfillment execution, and in-stock levels to drive revenue growth. They selected Invent Analytics for their invent.ai solution to address these issues.

Invent Analytics implemented a smart, flexible replenishment system using a rapid three-step pilot process involving historical analysis, simulations, and in-market tests. This solution automated more profitable inventory levels and optimized fulfillment. The results included significant improvements in in-stock rates, higher sales and margins, lower aged inventory, and a material gross profit contribution. Academy also minimized inventory overhead and reduced store labor issues, achieving these benefits in a record timeframe.

Academy Sports + Outdoors

John Jarrett

Vice President of Merchant System Operations