Tool Sprawl Risk Audit — Athletics and Sporting Goods

Find out how much spreadsheet and SaaS sprawl is costing Athletics and Sporting Goods — and where a purpose-built internal tool pays off.

Signs of tool sprawl in Athletics and Sporting Goods

Pre-season buys are placed 9-12 months before the selling window — when the season actually arrives, the demand signal is wrong on a third of the assortment and markdowns are baked in.
Wholesale, DTC, and team/club channels run on separate plans and frequently undercut each other on price and inventory allocation.
Returns rates on technical apparel and footwear are 25-35% online, and the cost-to-process is silently destroying e-commerce contribution margin.
SKU complexity has exploded with size, color, and tech-feature combinations — the merchandise plan is a wall of spreadsheets and the merch team can't see what is actually selling at attribute level.

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Source of Truth

Whether your operational data lives in one place or is scattered across tools.

1.Where does your core operational data live?

2.How many tools/spreadsheets hold 'the truth' for one workflow?

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