In early October 2026 I posted on X about SKU rationalisation, inventory turn and retail case studies.
DMart feels like India's cleanest ILOS case. Limited assortment, bulk buying, low prices, high inventory turns.
We have reduced our colors in women pants from 25 to 15 and going to reduce 5 more.
Aiming to reduce 500 skus.
There is a term of "bottom boxing" removing the bottom 10% of SKU's each year through non-traditional channels and eventually stopping them.
Because the operational burdern vs ROI on them is always negative.