ROI Calculator
What could Scout be worth to your brand?
Two numbers quietly drain CPG brands every year: sales lost to empty shelves, and trade spend poured into promotions that never pay back. Enter four figures you already know and see the annual upside of closing both gaps with Scout.
Your numbers
Rough figures are fine — adjust and watch the estimate update.
Share of the time your products are unavailable on shelf.
Promotions, discounts, and allowances as a share of revenue.
Total store locations carrying your products.
Estimated annual upside with Scout
$220,435
≈ $441 back per door, per year
- Recovered out-of-stock sales
- $130,435
- Trade spend recovered
- $90,000
Estimate only, from the inputs above and deliberately conservative assumptions (30% of out-of-stock losses recovered, 12% of trade spend freed). Not a guarantee of results.
How this estimate works
The calculator adds up two independent levers, and shows each one separately so the headline number is never a black box.
Recovered out-of-stock sales. Your reported revenue was captured while you were on shelf. If you are out of stock part of the time, your in-stock run rate implies sales you never made — calculated as revenue × rate ÷ (1 − rate). Scout is credited with recovering 30% of that loss, the share earlier detection realistically claws back.
Recovered trade spend. Annual trade spend is your revenue times the percent you enter. Because a meaningful slice of promotions run at break-even or worse, Scout is credited with freeing 12% of that spend by catching the unproductive events before they are funded.
Door count does not inflate the headline — your revenue already reflects your scale. Instead it splits the upside into a per-door figure, the concrete number worth bringing to a planning conversation.
Where the upside comes from
The estimate is grounded in the three things Scout helps CPG brands do better.
Out-of-stock recovery
Scout flags shelf gaps and replenishment risk early, so the sales you lose to empty shelves turn back into sales you keep.
Trade spend efficiency
See which promotions actually pay back before you fund them, and stop pouring budget into events that lose money.
Per-door visibility
Break performance down by banner and door so you know where growth is real and where a deal is just moving volume around.
Frequently asked questions
- How does Scout recover out-of-stock sales?
- Every hour a product is off the shelf is a sale you cannot make. Scout watches your POS and syndicated data for the gaps and replenishment risk that signal a stockout, and surfaces them early enough to act. The calculator credits Scout with recovering a conservative 30% of the sales your current out-of-stock rate is costing you — not all of them, because no tool eliminates every stockout.
- How does Scout reduce wasted trade spend?
- Roughly a third of trade promotions run at break-even or worse once you net out baseline volume and cannibalization. Scout models each promotion before it runs and measures it after, so unproductive events get cut. The calculator credits a conservative 12% of total trade spend as recoverable.
- Where do the assumptions come from?
- The two recovery rates are intentionally conservative estimates, not best-case numbers. The dollar figures are computed directly from the revenue, out-of-stock rate, trade spend, and door count you enter — change any input and the estimate updates immediately.
- Is the estimate a guarantee?
- No. It is a directional estimate to size the opportunity, not a contractual projection. Your actual results depend on your categories, retailers, and how you act on what Scout surfaces. A short demo with your real data gives a far more precise number.
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