Assortment Planning Software

Move from reactive visibility to orchestrated execution across your end-to-end supply chain.

UNLOCKING BILLIONS IN VALUE FOR CLIENTS IN 30+ INDUSTRIES

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Why leaders choose o9's Assortment Planning Software

AI-Driven Clustering
Advanced machine learning algorithms, such as K-Means clustering, enhance store grouping by incorporating external demand drivers including demographics, climate, and lifestyle indicators. This creates dynamic, demand-centric clusters that evolve as customer behavior changes, replacing static geographic or volume-based groupings.
Space-Aware Optimization
Space optimization capabilities validate assortments against physical store constraints such as shelf capacity, fixture limits, and visual merchandising rules. Features like Space Options Reconciliation ensure that planned option counts are executable at the store-cluster level, reducing last-minute assortment cuts and execution failures.
Multi-Season Planning
The architecture supports overlapping product lifecycles across seasons, enabling differentiated start and end rules for carryover items, seasonless basics, and short-life fashion products. This prevents data conflicts and ensures continuity in planning as assortments evolve across time horizons.
Auto-Assortment & AI Recommendations
AI-driven recommendation engines prescribe optimal assortments by matching product attributes to store cluster demand profiles. For new product introductions, the system predicts performance using “like-item” modeling, allowing planners to assess risk and opportunity even when no direct sales history exists.
Reconciliation with Financial Targets
Assortment plans are natively integrated with Merchandise Financial Planning and Open-to-Buy. As options are added or removed, the system continuously reconciles assortment decisions against top-down financial targets and inventory constraints. Variances are surfaced immediately, allowing planners to resolve gaps early rather than late in the season.
Highly Customizable User-Friendly Platform
Modular design, intuitive UI, and built-in collaboration tools to support planners across industries.

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Customer Success Stories

Kraft Heinz

Kraft Heinz partnered with o9 Solutions in North America and Europe to implement an advanced ML forecasting platform, collaborative demand planning solution, and a sales planning module. This initiative resulted in an 11% increase in Monthly Forecast Accuracy, a 14% increase in Weekly Forecast Accuracy, a 20% reduction in safety stock levels, and a 32% reduction in time spent on forecasting.

25%

Reduction in Excess Inventory

11%

Improvement in Monthly Forecast Accuracy

32%

Touchless Planning Adoption

AB InBev

By leveraging o9’s integrated planning platform, AB InBev replaced legacy systems such as SAP APO with a single, cloud-native solution, streamlining demand forecasting, supply planning, and inventory management. The transformation enabled a 60% reduction in out-of-stocks, a 53% decrease in inventory losses, and a four-year high in service levels. Additionally, planners experienced a 30% time savings, while touchless planning adoption reached 70-90% across key markets.

60%

Reduction in Stock-Outs

53%

Decrease in Inventory Losses

70-90%

Touchless Planning Adoption

T-Mobile

o9’s platform enabled T-Mobile to overcome the challenges of rapid demand growth from its 5G expansion and the Sprint merge. o9’s integrated planning capabilities provided real-time visibility into inventory, supplier capacity, and demand trends. T-Mobile significantly enhanced key supply chain KPIs, achieving 100% fulfilment rates, 99%+ service levels, and a sevenfold improvement in inventory turns, resulting in value realized of over $1 billion over 3 years.

$1bn+

Value Realized

99%

Service Level

32%

Reduction in time spent forecasting

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