Practical Retail Store Operations: The Art of Making Decisions by Reading Sales, Inventory, and Staffing

We transform distribution reports that merely list numbers into a single page that supports decision-making. Drawing on 24 years of experience in distribution operations and headquarters, we use Excel and AI to analyze changes in sales and contribution margin and examine hypotheses about their causes. By calculating simulated distribution data ourselves, we complete performance reports containing key conclusions, execution conditions, and approval requests.

A precise analysis of 300 cases applying the 'Rule of Three' within the story, from the Oath of the Peach Garden to the unification of the Three Kingdoms, presented in a 600-page PDF. - Perfect Structuring: Provides overwhelming readability by standardizing every episode into the format of [Original Quote - Rule of Three Analysis - Business Application]. - Vast Archiving: A comprehensive compilation of 300 key milestones across 100 years of history, from the Yellow Turban Rebellion in 184 to the unification in 280, without any omissions. - Practical Utility: Non-exclusive data that goes beyond simple reading material, ready for immediate citation as strategic evidence for proposals, lecture materials, and organizational management.

Experience Google's integrated smart work innovation. Start right now. 1. Gmail: The Center of All Communication Gmail is not just a simple email service. It's a 'communication hub' that organically connects with all of Google's collaboration tools. While checking emails, you can immediately add events to Google Calendar, save received files to Google Drive, and start quick conversations with Google Chat. Its powerful search function instantly finds any past content, ensuring work continuity. - Core Features: Drive file attachment, Calendar event creation, Meet video conference initiation, Chat integration 2. Google Drive: Secure Cloud Storage Google Drive is a secure 'online drawer' that stores and manages all documents, images, and videos. You can access the same files from computers, smartphones, and tablets anywhere, and simply share a single link with colleagues. No more need to compress large files and send them via email. You can set folder-specific access permissions for systematic and secure file management. - Core Features: Cloud file storage, sharing and synchronization, Docs/Sheets/Slides file creation 3. Google Docs: Real-time Collaborative Document Work Google Docs is an innovative word processor that allows multiple people to edit 'one document simultaneously'. You can see in real-time who is editing which part, and complete documents by exchanging opinions through 'comments' and 'suggestions' features. All modifications are automatically saved, and you can return to any previous state through version history, eliminating concerns about document loss. - Core Features: Real-time collaborative editing, comment and suggestion features, version history checking, automatic Drive saving 4. Google Sheets: Creating Data Together Google Sheets is an 'online Excel' that allows complex data analysis and visualization work with team members. From organizing various data to calculations using functions and chart creation, all team members can share and edit the latest data in real-time. When integrated with Google Forms, survey responses are automatically organized in sheets, making data compilation very convenient. - Core Features: Simultaneous data editing and analysis, function and chart features, survey response integration 5. Google Slides: Collaborative Planning Presentations Using Google Slides, you can gather ideas with team members to create 'one complete presentation'. Each person can work on their assigned slide parts simultaneously, and use comment features to give each other feedback to enhance presentation quality. You can easily insert YouTube videos or Google Sheets charts to create rich content presentations. - Core Features: Collaborative presentation creation, YouTube video and Sheets chart insertion 6. Google Meet: Simple Video Conferencing Google Meet is a 'high-quality video conferencing solution' that allows face-to-face meetings with team members anytime, anywhere. When you schedule meetings in Google Calendar, participation links are automatically generated for easy attendee access. Screen sharing features allow discussing presentation materials or work together, enabling efficient collaboration even in remote work environments. - Core Features: Calendar schedule integration, screen sharing, high-quality video and audio support 7. Google Calendar: Team Schedule Sharing and Management Google Calendar is a core tool that goes beyond personal scheduling to 'manage the entire team's time'. You can subscribe to colleagues' calendars to check each other's schedules and easily find available meeting times. When creating events, you can add video conference links (Meet) and attach related documents (Docs) to manage all meeting information in one place. - Core Features: Schedule management and sharing, meeting booking, Meet video conference integration 8. Google Keep: Capturing Fleeting Ideas Google Keep is a 'digital sticky note' that helps you not miss suddenly occurring ideas or simple tasks. It supports not only text but also images and voice memos, and you can create checklists to manage work. Written notes can be easily transferred to Google Docs or Slides, allowing systematic development of ideas. - Core Features: Quick note taking, idea capture, task management, Docs/Slides integration 9. Google Sites: Easy Website Creation No coding knowledge needed. Using Google Sites, you can simply create 'team project websites' or information sharing pages just by dragging and dropping with your mouse. You can easily insert various Google services like Google Drive documents, Calendar, and Maps into web pages to collect and manage all project-related information in one place. - Core Features: Simple website creation, Drive/Calendar/Maps content insertion 10. Google Photos: Memories and Materials in One Place Google Photos goes beyond being a space for storing personal memories to become a 'smart image hub' for sharing and managing team visual materials. You can create shared albums for project progress, event photos, design drafts, etc., and manage them together with team members. Powerful AI search functions allow you to easily find desired images like 'last week's meeting whiteboard photos'. - Core Features: Team shared album creation, AI-based image search, secure cloud backup 11. YouTube: The Most Powerful Visual Resource YouTube is not just a video platform, but a vast 'visual resource library' that can be utilized for work. You can directly insert product demos, educational videos, webinar recordings, etc., into Google Slides or Sites to make presentation materials and team pages richer. Internal training videos can be uploaded as unlisted to safely share only with specific team members. - Core Features: Video insertion into Slides/Sites, private internal training video sharing 12. Google Maps: Location-based Collaboration Google Maps goes beyond navigation to become a 'location-based visualization tool' that adds spatial context to business. Using the 'My Maps' feature, you can customize and share client locations, sales management areas, field survey routes, etc., with team members. When these maps are inserted into Google Sites, all team members can intuitively understand project-related location information. - Core Features: Custom map (My Maps) creation, project-related location visualization, Site integration 13. Google Translate: Breaking Language Barriers Google Translate is a 'reliable communication partner' that breaks down language barriers in an era where global collaboration is essential. You can easily translate emails exchanged with foreign partners and overseas market research materials to speed up work. Particularly, using the translation feature within Google Docs allows you to easily convert entire documents to other languages for efficient multilingual material management. - Core Features: Multilingual document/email translation, global collaboration support, direct in-document translation Now you understand that Google's collaboration tools are not just a collection of simple functions, but one powerful ecosystem organically connected together. Becoming a 'Google utilization expert' means going beyond simply knowing how to use various apps to acquiring problem-solving abilities that innovate work processes themselves through integrated utilization of these tools. Through capabilities to compile data in real-time, lead borderless collaboration, and quickly materialize creative ideas, you can become a 'smart work designer' who performs core roles in any team. Jump onto the Google ecosystem right now and complete your digital collaboration capabilities, the most certain competitive advantage for an unpredictable future!

Feeling overwhelmed by inventory, ordering, and production planning on the distribution floor? With 24 years of hands-on experience, we deliver data-driven operations.

Copy that sells well is often copy that gets flagged. Here, we’ve compiled the exact phrases we actually removed from our sales pages, along with why we removed them.

"Beyond just attending a lecture, we give you the time to 'own' the strategy." The 'Rule of 3', a formula for victory hidden within thousands of figures and complex battles. Change your business landscape with this 483-page PDF textbook and workbook, a culmination of a 30-year strategy expert's systems thinking.

"Simply knowing technology well does not make you a good sales engineer." Understanding customers’ problems, connecting technology to business value, and exerting influence between sales and development are the core responsibilities of a sales engineer. In this course, drawing on more than 20 years of B2B software presales experience, I will systematically share practical know-how on customer meetings, requirements analysis, demos, PoCs, proposal strategies, and internal collaboration. Learn the work frameworks and mindset of a sales engineer that you can apply immediately in practice.

An easy-to-understand lecture by the author of [AI Leadership], a management scholar with a background in program development and a creative organization HR expert

We will show you how to identify problems through processes, generate various ideas, and determine effective and actionable solutions. Through this, you can systematize the problem-solving process through the integrated action of reason and intuition, and develop problem-solving tools and skills based on logical thinking.

May we allocate more budget to advertising? Did the orders generated by the coupons actually lead to real profits? Can we attribute all purchases made by customers who received CRM messages to campaign performance? This is an intermediate practical course that answers the questions encountered every day in online commerce with data and profit-and-loss analysis. Drawing on experience in the retail field, it establishes a framework for marketing decisions by connecting customer acquisition, purchase conversion, repeat purchases, and profitability analysis. Centered around a fictional household-goods shopping mall called “Haru Market,” the course includes 21 lessons and Excel exercises. You will identify bottlenecks in the funnel, calculate the impact of additional ad spend and the incremental performance of CRM, and develop your own basis for deciding whether to scale up or discontinue an initiative. From marketing and MD professionals who want to strengthen their practical skills to job seekers who want analytical capabilities they can use immediately after joining a company, everyone will complete their own 30-day marketing action plan by the end of the course.

Based on 24 years of experience in both retail operations and headquarters, this intermediate practical course connects store-based quick commerce ordering, inventory, picking, and delivery into a single operating process. Through hypothetical cases and calculation exercises, you will learn to determine staffing allocation, respond to stockouts and cancellations, and assess contribution margins and whether to scale, as well as master everything from API integration requirements to error handling and launch inspections.

Are you preparing to become an MD but feeling overwhelmed about where to start with your product planning portfolio? Using the hypothetical product “Haru Chip Baked Apple Chips 30g” as a case study, learn step by step—from customer analysis and product concept development to sourcing, pricing and profit/loss, ordering and inventory management, launch, and performance reporting. Follow the 10 sessions to complete your own 12-page product planning portfolio and a 60-second presentation to use in interviews.

[Process Optimization Roadmap: Eliminating Unnecessary Capital Investment and Converting 'Hidden Factory' Opportunity Costs into Tangible Profits] 1. Introduction: Transition to Intelligent Processes and the Prerequisite of Standard Operating Procedures For modern enterprises to maximize business value by adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, the rigorous standardization of physical processes and work procedures on the shop floor must come first. An intelligent system built upon an unstructured data environment lacking standardization will struggle to achieve optimal performance; instead, it is highly likely to amplify process uncertainty and act as a risk to the entire system. This training course aims to present a strategic methodology for discovering latent profit sources within the so-called 'Hidden Factory' and converting them into an engineering foundation that AI can autonomously control and optimize. 2. [Analysis] Quantitative Data-Based Field Diagnosis and Analysis of 'Baseline Losses in Critical Indicators' Many manufacturing sites tend to overlook potential operational losses by settling for superficial performance indicators. When Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is precisely analyzed through engineering decomposition techniques, the following structural losses are identified: Availability 90%: While external uptime is secured, power loss due to minor stoppages occurs continuously. Performance 90%: A slowdown in actual speed compared to theoretical cycle time has become chronic, yet there is no reference point to recognize and improve this. Quality 90%: A defect rate reaching 10% is evaluated as a critical figure that undermines the reliability of the entire process. The actual OEE, calculated by the multiplier effect of these three indicators, is only 72.9%, meaning the remaining 27.1% of opportunity cost is buried within the 'Hidden Factory'—unidentified by data. Therefore, the primary task of AI adoption is to quantify the source of this waste and ensure process transparency. 3. [Critique] Redefining Strategic Priorities: The Conflict Between Operational Excellence (OPEX) and Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) Prioritizing the expansion of new facilities (CAPEX) as a solution to declining productivity can be a strategically dangerous decision. Adding lines to a low-efficiency structure where OEE remains at the 60–70% level results in replicating fundamental inefficiencies, leading to an exponential increase in management costs. Before large-scale capital injection, maximizing Operational Excellence (OPEX) to break through the physical limits of existing assets must take precedence. Only when standard operating procedures capable of achieving the world-class standard of 85% OEE are established can a virtuous cycle be built—one that dramatically improves production capacity through integration with AI without additional investment. 4. [Evaluation] Integration of Data Architecture: Establishing an ISA-95 Based Decision-Making System The disconnection between the financial indicators of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and the operational data of the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is a core cause of information distortion and delayed decision-making. To resolve this, the international standard ISA-95 architecture is applied to organically integrate management strategy with the physical production site. Establishment of a Single Source of Truth: Complete a data pipeline where all dynamic field data is synchronized in real-time with the enterprise management system. Conversion of Indicators into Financial Value: By intuitively linking the impact of minor field stoppages to actual operating profit and cash flow on financial statements, an objective, data-driven performance evaluation and decision-making system is established. 5. [Execution] 4-Step Strategic Roadmap for Intelligent Process Management Implement an advanced strategy that fuses AI technology with human engineering insight based on strictly standardized procedures. Predictive Maintenance and Utilization of P-F Intervals: Build a predictive maintenance system by monitoring the P-F Interval—the period from a potential failure (a precursor to equipment breakdown) to a functional failure—in real-time. Digital Twin-Based Simulation and Minimization of Trial and Error: Practice a 'Zero-Trial' strategy that prevents physical losses by verifying various scenarios within a virtual environment before implementing process changes. Quantitative Control of the 6 Big Losses: Continuously track and manage the six core waste factors that hinder profitability—equipment failure, setup/adjustments, idling/minor stops, reduced speed, process defects, and reduced yield/rework—through AI. Digital Advancement of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM): Enhance the reliability of Human-in-the-Loop systems by establishing a proactive culture where field operators voluntarily detect and respond to signs of equipment abnormality. 6. Conclusion: Securing Technological Leadership Through Standardized System Architecture Technical knowledge can be transferred through education, but the insight to dominate process flow only manifests upon a sophisticatedly designed standard system. This masterclass aims to provide a precise engineering blueprint for transforming your production site into an intelligent asset. Establishing standardized work procedures and ensuring data integrity are essential prerequisites for the AI era. Only on a firm systemic foundation will AI function as a true intelligent production site that drives corporate growth.

Now is the time for 'customer touchpoint marketing'. We will explain in detail the concept of customer touchpoint marketing and how to implement it. We have also included 'marketing immutable laws' that entrepreneurs should know and digital marketing FAQs. You can get everything from the basics of marketing to the latest trends.

This is a practical course that uses Codex to connect business planning, website creation, marketing materials, task organization, and email automation. Even if you are not a developer, you will learn how to delegate tasks to AI and refine the results using Notion, Linear, Figma, and Google Workspace in an actual workflow sequence.

64 core stories from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, handpicked by a strategy expert with 30 years of experience! We provide a 150-page 'Rule of Three' strategic framework that structures complex business issues into just three areas to design your victory. [The Blueprint for Victory Learned from Heroes of Turbulent Times] Did you feel you should read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms but felt overwhelmed by its massive volume and 1,200 characters? Or even if you read it, were you unsure how to apply it to real-world business? This lecture pierces through the entire epic while distilling only the 'Rule of Three' that can be immediately applied to modern business. 🎯 This lecture is for: Strategists/Planners: Those who want to design a 'structure for victory' that does not collapse amidst complex variables. Leaders: Those who want to win people over by mastering justification, practical interests, and timing. Beginners: Those who want to master the core plot and strategies of the Three Kingdoms all at once. ⚔️ What will you learn? An Unshakable 'Structure' (Risk Management): From Cao Cao's retreat tactics to Zhuge Liang's defensive formations, learn how to prevent the collapse of your foundation by optimally allocating resources. The Invisible 'Gap' (Strategy Formulation): Through cases like Lu Bu’s "empty house" raids and Guan Yu’s loss of Jing Province, master the art of timing to seize the initiative by capturing the opponent's weaknesses. The Irresistible 'Proposal' (Psychological Persuasion): Systematize negotiation techniques that completely win over opponents using the 'Justification-Profit/Loss-Deadline' frame extracted from Zhuge Liang's diplomacy. 💡 Our Promise After taking this course, you will possess a clearer strategic insight than someone who has read the Three Kingdoms three times. The stories are exciting, and the strategies are meticulous! Results are not left to luck; they are designed.

Why isn't AI mentioning my brand? The answer after SEO: GEO strategies to get your brand featured in AI responses

Have you ever felt frustrated by the lack of content covering B2B products while building one? We’ll make the similarities and differences between B2B and B2C products easy to understand, drawing on Younghwa’s actual career experience.

Are you still manually planning and writing marketing reports these days? This course covers how to use GPT to establish strategies, automatically execute ads and content, and even generate real-time KPI reports. Experience the "efficient way of working" that every marketer wonders about firsthand in this course.

[McKinsey Alumni Kim Jaesung's Problem-Solving Q&A: We'll Solve Your Problems Together] Required! Prerequisite Course: McKinsey Alumni Kim Jaesung's AI-Powered Problem-Solving & Research Special Lecture https://inf.run/LmvrD 'Theory-only lectures, step aside!' A magical solution video that solves real practical problems together on the spot! This is a video series where Kim Jaesung, a McKinsey alumnus and AI expert, meets with each person individually in a 1:1 Q&A format to structure and solve your problems. From career paths and minor concerns to massive topics like AI that's shaking the world and improvement directions for industries as a whole! Each video will be uploaded for individual purchase. Paid course students will have the opportunity to actually participate through a quarterly lottery drawing! (The more of Kim Jaesung's courses you take, the higher your chances of winning!) [Concept] This is a 1:1 immediate Q&A format meeting with individuals, with the concept of industry experts and strategy experts coming together to approach the right answer. Participants have been extremely satisfied. (You can see and hear this in their testimonials!) The key to this video series is that strategy expert Kim Jaesung doesn't receive the topic in advance, but through strategic questioning and answering, we get closer to the right answer together. Experience the magical solution that naturally elicits the reaction "This actually works?!" lol, based on strategy and structuring rather than relying on intuition and experience! The free version (~10 minutes) will be available to everyone, and the full version will be available to Inflearn course students or YouTube channel [Kim Jaesung's Problem Solving] 'Premium Membership' subscribers. If you wish to participate, please send an email to jaesung_kim@jcurvepartners.ai with the subject line [Coffee Chat Application] In the email, please include your name, age, contact information (mobile phone number), occupation and years of experience (students are welcome), detailed reasons for applying, and attach a screenshot of your enrollment in Kim Jaesung's Inflearn courses. Selected applicants will be contacted. (Personal information of non-selected applicants will be immediately discarded after 3 months) When appearing in the video, using a pseudonym or not revealing your company name is possible, but if you wish for face blurring, voice modulation, or other modifications, participation is not possible. By consenting to video recording, you are deemed to have agreed that the video may be reprocessed and used on Inflearn and Kim Jaesung's YouTube channel.