VERYX for retail & grocery — execution & cost control

See risk earlier. Execute faster. Save millions.

Grocers and retailers don’t lose hundreds of millions for lack of insight — they lose it because execution is fragmented. VERYX is the governed execution & control layer that runs your transformation programmes, supplier spend, store estate, people and risk on one source of truth, with an AI workforce — above the till, not the till.

Where the margin leaks

The losses making headlines across the sector trace to the same root cause — strategy, programmes, finance, procurement, assets and people sitting in disconnected systems, so decisions are slow, inconsistent and unaudited. The leaks are familiar:

Costly transformations

IT separations, ERP decoupling and system cutovers run over time and budget when workstreams silo — governed end-to-end on VERYX.

Fragmented supplier spend

Billions of supplier spend with duplicate contracts, pricing anomalies and missed rebates — surfaced by the procurement engine.

Under-performing store estate

Property impairments and refit/close decisions made on gut feel — turned into governed, evidence-backed decisions.

Programme execution drift

Dozens of change initiatives with no single source of truth — one portfolio, one critical path, one audit trail.

Three plays that pay for the platform

Lead with these — they are the most defensible value, and they are live in VERYX today.

1. Transformation control

Run the transformation, not chase it

The big programme — IT separation, ERP decoupling, infrastructure cutover — under one governed plan.

▹Governance, stage gates and approvals across every workstream
▹AI Schedule Architect + real critical path (free float, near-critical, WBS) — exports to Primavera .xer
▹Common data environment + risk & change so dependency collisions and outage risk surface early
▹A separation/programme risk view: “migration delayed, N downstream systems impacted, £X disruption risk”

2. Procurement savings

Find the savings hiding in supplier spend

On multi-billion spend, even 1–3% is enormous — and it is usually leaking quietly.

▹Vendor register, RFx, bid evaluation and 0–100 supplier scoring
▹Spend analytics that flag duplicate suppliers, pricing anomalies and maverick spend
▹Missed-rebate and contract-leakage detection; rebid and renegotiation workflows
▹Every saving tracked to the financial ledger with a court-grade audit trail

3. Estate governance

Manage every store as a performance asset

Refit, resize or close — as a data-backed, governed decision, not a guess.

▹Asset register per store: condition, book value, energy and maintenance cost, work orders, SLAs
▹Ingested commercial KPIs (sales/m², footfall, basket) scored alongside the operational data
▹New-store rollouts and refurbishments run as a project portfolio with cost & schedule control
▹Preventive-maintenance triage so failures are caught before they hit trading

The whole operating model, one platform

Beyond the three plays, the same source of truth runs the executive command centre (live commercial, operations, programme and financial KPIs with AI alerts), workforce capacity & utilisation, ESG/CSRD reporting (energy, waste, Scope 1/2/3), food-safety & QA/QC inspections, and a hash-chained audit trail behind every decision — each with its own AI agent.

What VERYX integrates with — and never replaces

VERYX is deliberately not your till, your pricing brain or your demand planner. It sits above them, ingests their data, governs the decision and tracks the money:

Till / POS / EPOS

VERYX is the layer above the till — it never rings the sale.

Merchandising & pricing

SKU pricing and promo/margin engines stay in your category systems; VERYX ingests the data, governs the decision and tracks the £ impact.

Demand planning

Weather/event demand forecasting stays in your planning tools; VERYX governs the response and the procurement that follows.

Shift rostering (WFM)

Per-15-minute till rostering stays in your WFM; VERYX runs capacity, utilisation, cost and compliance.

That boundary is the point: VERYX wins on execution and control without pretending to be the systems you already run — which is exactly why it earns a CIO’s trust.

Modelled from your data — never invented

Every figure in VERYX is modelled from your real activity and shown with its basis — a savings number is a procurement analysis, not a slide. On enterprise-scale spend and programmes the potential is board-level (procurement at 1–3% of spend, transformation overruns avoided, estate optimisation), but VERYX always presents value as a live model you can audit, never a guarantee.