Shrink & Loss Prevention

Domain: Enterprise Support — Enterprise capabilities for finance & accounting, legal & compliance, facilities management, and site operations.
Industries: Retail, Grocery, QSR, Hospitality
Business Models: B2C

Reduces inventory loss through AI video analytics, real-time exception detection, and continuous monitoring achieving significantly lower shrink rates.

Why This Matters

What It Is

Reduces inventory loss through AI video analytics, real-time exception detection, and continuous monitoring achieving significantly lower shrink rates.

Business Value

ROI Estimate
30%
Implementation Effort
6-12 months
Business Impact
High
Strategic Importance
Strategic Priority
Quick Wins

Low-effort, high-value actions to achieve early results

  • Deploy AI video analytics at top 10-20 highest-shrink stores
  • Enable POS exception reporting for voids, refunds, discounts
  • Implement cycle counting for top 100 highest-shrink SKUs

Maturity Assessment

Traditional Maturity 2/5
Basic Automation
Some automated tools, mostly manual workflows
Reduced manual effort, but still requires significant human intervention
Agentic Maturity 5/5
Full Autonomy
Fully autonomous agentic architecture
Complete transformation, minimal human intervention required
Transformation Opportunity
Large transformation opportunity - major AI transformation potential

Is This Right for You?

26% match

This score is based on general applicability (industry fit, implementation complexity, and ROI potential). Use the Preferences button above to set your industry, role, and company profile for personalized matching.

Why this score:

  • Applicable across multiple industries
  • Traditional and agentic approaches are similar

You might benefit from Shrink & Loss Prevention if:

  • You want to modernize this capability
  • You see value in AI-powered automation

Functions (5)

External Theft Detection & Prevention

AI video analytics detecting suspicious behavior with real-time alerts achieving 0.5-0.8% shrink versus 1.0-1.5% manual surveillance with 40-60% external theft reduction.

Business Outcome
reduction in incident review time (from 15-30 minutes to 7-15 minutes)
Complexity:
Medium
Time to Value:
3-6 months

Fraud Detection & Prevention

Real-time fraud scoring achieving 0.1-0.3% fraud rate vs 1-2% with rules, blocking 95%+ fraud while approving 98%+ legitimate transactions.

Business Outcome
reduction in time spent on manual transaction reviews, decreasing from 15-30 minutes to 7-15 minutes per transaction.
Complexity:
Medium
Time to Value:
3-6 months

High-Risk Item Protection & Monitoring

RFID smart shelves with real-time removal alerts achieving <1% shrink on high-risk items versus 2-5% manual EAS with 60-80% shrink reduction and 95%+ tagging compliance.

Business Outcome
reduction in time spent on risk assessments
Complexity:
Medium
Time to Value:
3-6 months

Internal Theft & Fraud Detection

Real-time POS anomaly detection with ML fraud patterns achieving <0.2% shrink versus 0.5-1.0% traditional with 60-80% internal theft reduction.

Business Outcome
reduction in fraud discovery time, decreasing from an average of 12 months to 6 months.
Complexity:
High
Time to Value:
3-6 months

Inventory Shrink Analysis & Root Cause

Perpetual inventory with RFID and ML root cause analysis achieving 0.7-1.5% shrink versus 1.5-3.0% annual physical with 50% shrink reduction and actionable root cause identification.

Business Outcome
Up to 70% time reduction in data collection and analysis
Complexity:
Medium
Time to Value:
3-6 months

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