MEGA
Start the free check First Cycle
Buying checkFree What we build Who it's for Why MEGA Pricing Start the free check First Cycle

Kayl · buying health check

Find out if your buying rules add up.

Answer about forty questions on how you buy, stock and clear. Get a report on where your own numbers disagree, where the gaps are and where to look first.

Start the check How we use your data
Takes
About fifteen minutes. Stop any time and pick up later.
Costs
Nothing. The check is free.
You get
A report you can read straight away, built only from your answers.
Sign in
Your work email and a six-digit code. No password.
A fragrance stockroom at night, steel shelves full of plain bottles and cartons, with a step ladder in the aisle.
From a sample report · consistency check Your PO cover ceiling of 1.5 months is below your target cover once both are measured the same way. Buyers cannot reach the target without going over the ceiling. Worth checking Sample answers. Illustrative. Not a real submission.

Try it with sample numbers.

Four questions from the real check. Change an answer and the sample report changes, word for word as the Kayl engine writes it.

What frustrates you most about buying today?
Do you set a target cover, the months of stock you aim to hold?
What is your stock turn, the number of times your stock sells through in a year?
Do you cap how many months of cover a new PO may bring in?

Everything else is one fixed sample retailer: 24 stores and a website, a 30-day order cycle and a 45-day supplier lead time.

Turn on JavaScript to change the sample answers. The report shows the answers marked above.

Sample answers. Illustrative. Not a real submission.

Buying health check

Level one, built from your answers only. Numbers here are yours, worked out from yours, or fixed settings of this report.

Consistency checks

These checks compare your own numbers with each other. A flag means worth checking, not wrong.

Your stock turn of 6 times a year means about 2.0 months of stock on average. That is more than your target cover of 1.5 months allows. Worth checking.

Your PO cover ceiling of 1.5 months is below your target cover once both are measured the same way. Worth checking: buyers cannot reach the target without going over the ceiling.

Show the buying policy and control gaps in this sample

Your buying policy, as you told us

These are the numbers you gave us, shown rounded.

  • Biggest buying frustration: we buy too much, and stock piles up
  • The one number you want to fix: value of excess stock
  • Stores: 24
  • Active SKUs: 3,500
  • Styles: 900
  • Sales history you can export: 30 months
  • Target cover: 1.5 months
  • Target cover is measured on average stock on hand
  • Cover is valued at cost
  • Display minimum: 2 units per item per store
  • The display minimum works as a floor: a store gets whichever is larger, its cover need or the minimum
  • PO cover ceiling: 1.5 months
  • PO approval threshold: AED 50,000
  • Supplier lead time: 45 days
  • Order cycle: every 30 days
  • There is no set way to split new deliveries between stores
  • Stock turn: 6 times a year, measured at cost
  • In-stock rate on key items: 88.0%

Control gaps by area

These levels come from your own answers. This is self-reported practice. It is not a benchmark, and it does not compare you with anyone.

Each area gets a level from 0 to 4. A higher level means more of the practice is in place, with a number behind it.

Buy: level 3 (self-reported practice)

  • What your answers point to:
  • There is no set way to split new deliveries between stores
  • You also told us:
  • The buyer splits new deliveries

Flow: level 3 (self-reported practice)

  • What your answers point to:
  • Whether items are in stock is measured only now and then
  • You also told us:
  • Only best sellers are checked for stockouts

Exit: level 3 (self-reported practice)

  • What your answers point to:
  • Dead stock is tracked only now and then
  • You also told us:
  • Items that stopped selling stay where they are

Data: level 3 (self-reported practice)

  • What your answers point to:
  • Sales can be exported only by month, which hides short stockouts
  • Unit cost is missing for some SKUs
  • Only current stock is kept, so past stockouts cannot be seen
  • You also told us:
  • The system cannot export sales by SKU and store
  • Unit costs are missing most on new items
  • The system could save a weekly stock snapshot with some work

Governance: not assessed, because your answers did not call for governance questions

Where to look first

You told us you buy too much and stock piles up. Start with how buy quantities are set: target cover, the display minimum and the PO cover ceiling.

Next step

Want to fix this with MEGA? Start with the First Cycle: a paid, fixed-scope study for USD 1,000, with a written blueprint and a working demo on demo data.

The fee is credited in full toward a later contract, and refunded if the agreed criteria are missed.

Made for the buying lead. Readable by the owner. Checkable by finance.

Buying lead: Your rules written back, and where they disagree.

Owner: Where to look first, in one paragraph.

Finance: Every number is labelled: your answer, worked out from your answers, or a fixed setting of the report.

Six short sections. About forty questions.

Most questions let you answer I don't know. Some also offer We don't measure this or Doesn't apply to us.

Where it hurts
2 questions
Your business
4 questions
Your data
6 questions
How you buy
11 questions
How stock flows
2 questions
How stock leaves
3 questions

Plus up to twelve follow-up questions, picked from your answers.

How the check works

Two levels

Open now

Level 1: buying health check

Built from your answers only, ready as soon as you finish.

  • Checks where your own numbers disagree, such as stock turn against target cover.
  • Your buying policy, written back exactly as you gave it.
  • Control gaps by area. Self-reported practice, never a benchmark.
  • Where to look first, starting from what frustrates you most.
Not open yet

Level 2: inventory diagnostic

When it opens, Level 2 will use your own stock and sales files, and MEGA will review every report before you see it.

  • It will show how much stock sits above your target, valued at cost.
  • It will show cover across the network and store by store.
  • It will show dead stock, and how long since each item last sold.
  • It will show whether open purchase orders push stock over target.
  • It will show how far each number can be trusted, with the reasons.

Four steps

No call, no demo. You can do it now and read the result on this site.

  1. Sign in with your work emailWe email a six-digit code.
  2. Answer the questionsOne short section at a time. Your answers save as you go.
  3. Read your reportRight away, on this site. We also email you when it is ready.
  4. Go further when you wantThe First Cycle with us now, or Level 2 when it opens.

What the check is not.

  • Not a benchmark. It never compares you with anyone.
  • Not written by AI. Every line comes from your own answers.
  • Not software to install, and not a sales call.
  • Not Level 2. The file-based diagnostic is not open yet.
  • Not a replacement for your ERP. Your ERP stores stock; the check looks at the rules you buy by.

Your data

Your answers and reports stay until you delete them, and you can delete everything at any time. When Level 2 opens, uploaded files are deleted within about 30 days. Backups are kept for up to 30 days. We never sell your data or use it for anyone else's report.

We run Kayl and its database ourselves, on hardware we control in the United Arab Emirates.

Read how we use your data

Check first. Fix it with us after.

The First Cycle is a paid, fixed-scope study: USD 1,000, two to three weeks, a written blueprint and a working demo on demo data.

Start the free check See the First Cycle