Case Study: Sport Zone boosts availability and cuts stock with Onebeat

Sport Zone - Customer Case Study

Sport Zone, a major sports retailer in Portugal, faced significant inventory management challenges. Despite strong growth, the company suffered from overstock of slow-moving products and stockouts of high-demand items. A dedicated team of 20 people spent most of their time manually trying to balance inventory across 15 million SKU-locations through phone calls with store managers. To address this, Sport Zone implemented Onebeat's Depth Management solution.

The solution by Onebeat began as a proof of concept, successfully reducing stock by 15% and increasing availability by 20%. Following this, Onebeat was fully deployed, transitioning the company from a push-based to a pull-based replenishment model. This resulted in a 40% reduction in average store stock and a 25% increase in product availability, reaching 97.5%. Furthermore, store requests were reduced by 90%, and the inventory balancing team was cut from 20 to just five people.

Sport Zone

Marco Cunha

Head of Downstream Operation