Stark Consultancy
SLA measured in minutes

Built for the speed of quick-commerce.

Dark-store inventory, hyperlocal demand forecasting, and rider performance — a control tower built around 10–15 minute delivery windows, not next-day shipping.

Delivery SLA
10–15 min
Forecast
Hyperlocal
Inventory view
Per dark store

What's included

Visibility at the speed you actually sell

Quick-commerce fails or wins on inventory precision and delivery speed — this is built around exactly those two things.

Real-time sales tracking

SKU-level sales tracked across every dark store as it happens, not in a report the next morning.

Demand planning

Plan stock levels per dark store around actual demand patterns, not a single citywide average.

Demand forecasting

Hyperlocal forecasts that react to recent velocity, weather, and local events — not last quarter's trend line.

Minute-level SLA tracking

SLA measured in minutes, not days — built for 10–15 minute delivery promises, not next-day shipping.

Rider & delivery performance

Delivery partner performance tracked per dark store, so slow zones get caught before they become churn.

Stockout & inventory tracking

Live stock visibility per dark store, with early warning before a fast-moving SKU actually runs out.

Possible automations

Automations for quick-commerce

A sample of what gets automated for a dark-store operation — scoped to your store count and SLA targets.

Stock-out prediction and replenishment triggers, per dark store
Demand forecast refreshed from real-time sales velocity
Alert the moment a store's fulfillment time exceeds SLA
Inventory reallocation suggested between nearby stores on demand signal
Rider performance scorecards, automated
Manpower plan per store — headcount vs. forecast, recalculated weekly

What actually changes

Where this moves your numbers

Not features for the sake of features — here's exactly what each one fixes for a dark-store operation.

Stockout risk flagged before it happens — the store gets a replenishment nudge, not a complaint.

Instead of: A dark store runs out of a fast-mover mid-shift, and you find out from a cancelled order.

Hyperlocal forecasts react to this week's velocity, per store — not a stale trend line.

Instead of: Demand planning uses last quarter's citywide average.

Rider performance scored per dark store, so a slow zone gets fixed before it costs you customers.

Instead of: A slow rider zone gets noticed only after churn shows up in retention numbers.

Every order timed against your 10-15 minute promise, live, store by store.

Instead of: SLA is 'measured' by spot-checking a few late orders after the fact.

Inventory reallocation between nearby stores suggested automatically, before the shelf goes empty.

Instead of: Nobody sees a stockout risk until the app shows 'out of stock'.

Your rules, your thresholds — an email or WhatsApp alert fires the second a store's numbers cross the line you set.

Instead of: Custom alerts don't exist — everyone just checks the dashboard and hopes.

Proof, not slides

Dark-store ops, live

Interactive mini-builds on synthetic sample data — the same mechanics that run a real dark-store network.

Q-commerce dark store wall

~2 min

A live operations wall across six dark stores, refreshing every few seconds.

6

dark stores, one wall

See how it works

Consensus demand plan

~2 min

One editable grid where statistical, sales, marketing, and finance views converge.

4→1

demand views merged

See how it works

Statistical forecast engine

~2 min

Four forecast models, switchable per SKU, with accuracy tracked alongside.

4

models, one switch

See how it works

Zone-level reconciliation

~2 min

An origin × destination heatmap that shows exactly which lanes are leaking money.

10

leaking lanes, ranked

See how it works

How the engagement works

Week by week, start to handover

~5-6 weeks, typical
  1. Week 1

    Discovery & scoping

    Map dark-store operations, SLA targets, and current demand-planning process.

  2. Weeks 2-3

    Data & pipeline

    Connect dark-store inventory, order, and rider-performance feeds in near real time.

  3. Weeks 3-4

    Build

    The live ops wall, demand forecast, and SLA alerts built and wired to real stores.

  4. Week 5

    UAT & iteration

    Run it against a live shift before rolling out network-wide.

  5. Weeks 5-6

    Handover

    Training for store ops leads, documentation, and a clean handoff.

Get in touch

Still tracking orders in a spreadsheet?

Let's talk about what a control tower would look like for your operation — built around how your team actually works.

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No pitch — just 15 minutes to understand what you're trying to solve and whether a build like this actually fits. Share two times that work and I'll confirm one.

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