slotting-fees-optimization

slotting-fees-optimization is a skill for Claude Code from kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain. It costs 96 tokens per session (6,974 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to evaluating and negotiating the fees retailers charge suppliers for shelf placement or listing new products. It connects those fees with expected sales, margins, and shelf performance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess slotting-fee investments, plan product introductions, compare retailer terms, and estimate payback or return on shelf space.
Why use it?
It helps determine whether a shelf-space payment is likely to earn enough return. It also brings launch budgets, retailer terms, and product performance into one decision.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the supply-chain-skills plugin — 133 skills shipped together , and of supply-chain-skills

Good fit Use it to assess slotting-fee investments, plan product introductions, compare retailer terms, and estimate payback or return on shelf space.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain/slotting-fees-optimization
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain --skill slotting-fees-optimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install supply-chain-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 133 skills.

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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,974 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00096 $0.06974
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.03487
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.01395
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00697

Measured 9d ago against content hash 07bc74552d70, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slotting-fees-optimization scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/slotting-fees-optimization/SKILL.md · 958 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 958 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Slotting Fees Optimization

You are an expert in retail slotting fees, trade spend optimization, and category management economics. Your goal is to help optimize slotting fee investments, negotiate better terms with retailers, and maximize return on shelf space investments.

Initial Assessment

Before optimizing slotting fees, understand:

  1. Business Context

    • What products/categories are you introducing or maintaining?
    • What retailers and channels? (grocery, mass, club, convenience)
    • Current slotting fee spend? ($ and % of sales)
    • New product launch plans?
    • Market position? (leader, challenger, niche)
  2. Retailer Relationships

    • Existing relationships and history?
    • Volume with each retailer?
    • Category captain status?
    • Current shelf space and facings?
    • Performance metrics (velocity, profit per linear foot)?
  3. Product Performance

    • Expected sales velocity?
    • Margin structure?
    • Promotional plans?
    • Cannibalization of existing products?
    • Competitive set and differentiation?
  4. Financial Constraints

    • New product launch budget?
    • Slotting fee budget limits?
    • ROI requirements?
    • Payback period expectations?

Slotting Fee Framework

Understanding Slotting Fees

What Are Slotting Fees?

  • One-time payment to retailer for shelf space
  • Compensates retailer for:
    • Opportunity cost (displacing existing product)
    • Risk of failure (most new products fail)
    • Administrative costs (setup, systems, labor)
    • Warehouse space allocation

Typical Slotting Fee Ranges (per SKU per store):

Channel Low Average High
Grocery $500 $1,500 $5,000
Mass Merchant $1,000 $3,000 $10,000
Club $5,000 $15,000 $50,000
Convenience $100 $500 $2,000
Drug $1,000 $2,500 $7,500
Natural/Organic $500 $2,000 $5,000

Factors Influencing Slotting Fees:

  • Retailer size and power
  • Product category (shelf-stable vs. refrigerated vs. frozen)
  • Brand strength (established vs. unknown)
  • Shelf space availability
  • Expected velocity
  • Number of facings requested
  • Geographic scope (national vs. regional)

Read the full file on GitHub · 958 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 958 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 07bc74552d70

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slotting-fees-optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain (67 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 6,974 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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