Use AI to instantly check if store shelves match product layout plans—saving time, reducing errors, and ensuring brand consistency.With AWS, retailers can replace manual shelf checks with fast, automatic verification using images and intelligent insights.

 

The Challenge

In supermarkets and convenience stores, field staff must manually check if products like Coca-Cola or Sabeco items are placed correctly on shelves, fridges, or tables. Every morning, they compare the real shelf with a reference layout (planogram) and report findings to supervisors. This manual process is slow, inconsistent, and often inaccurate—leading to missed sales opportunities and wasted time.

 

Solution Overview

AWS offers an AI-powered solution that helps automate this daily task. Field staff simply take photos of product displays. AWS services then:

  1. Recognize the products,
  2. Compare them to the expected layout, and
  3. Return a compliance score and summary instantly.

This saves time, ensures consistent checks, and gives supervisors real-time visibility across all stores.

Key Capabilities

  • Smart product recognition: AI detects products and positions from shelf photos.
  • Automatic layout matching: Compares real shelf with planogram to find issues.
  • Instant compliance score: Shows how closely the layout follows the plan.
  • Easy-to-read summaries: Provides short, clear reports for supervisors.
  • Mobile-enabled: Works from a smartphone or tablet for field teams.

Business Benefits

  • Save time by automating daily shelf checks
  • Improve store execution and product visibility
  • Ensure brand and promotion consistency
  • Reduce human errors and reporting delays
  • Track performance across all locations easily

Use Cases

  • Shelf and fridge display validation
  • Promotion and campaign checks
  • Brand and supplier compliance tracking
  • Store audit dashboards

 

Customer Readiness Checklist 

To start your proof of concept (POC), ensure the following:

  • Sample shelf, fridge photos
  • Sample planogram layouts for comparison
  • Product list with images or packaging references
  • Success Criteria: Clearly state the basic technical outcome needed for the POC to be successful 

Architecture, cost estimation, POC timeline

POC timeline

Week 1: Requirement & Data Collection
Week 2: Env setup
Week 3-4: Tunning
Week 5: Testing