Merchandise & Assortment Management

Build and manage customer-centric merchandising plans.

Capabilities

Solutions

Trusted by leaders across industry verticals

Improve alignment with strategic mix and assortment goals.

o9 Retail Mix optimization function between merchandising, assortment and demand planning

Lossless representation of network, assortment & market knowledge

Model the complete distribution and retail network with o9’s Enterprise Knowledge Graph. Include products at the level required to support all decisions. Incorporate external and unstructured information to determine the most competitive offering.

the complete distribution and retail network modelled by o9’s Enterprise Knowledge Graph

Data-backed performance and opportunities visibility

Review plans and investments across your products, channels and regional dimensions. Deploy AI-based analytics. Capture fast-changing customer sentiment. Make progress towards the annual plan, focused on ROI.

o9 revenue planning solutions screenshot, shows the overview of risks and opportunities for better management and planning

Pricing, Promotions and markdown Analytics

Use real-time analytics to understand the efficacy of pricing and promotional events. Deploy instant changes to capture the full potential of your assortment. Collaborate with all the stakeholders involved.

Real Time Scenario Planning – P&L Gap Closure, Open-to-Buy

Drive all plan review & finalization, tightly coupled to the P&L. Build alternatives to consider on the fly. Pick decisions to bring actuals inline with strategic goals. Deploy the optimal Open To Buy plans.

Responsive, Omni-channel merchandise and assortment optimization.

Use a flexible modeling framework to model variations in product flow and frequency. Support the ability to drive the right mix and assortment. Make better inventory decisions across all relevant channels (direct, offline and online).

a framework to model product flow and frequency's variations, helps get the right mix and assortment

Testimonials

Trusted by the world’s leading companies

"The supply chain industry is undergoing a continuous transformation enabled by technology, and o9 Solutions is a critical leader in supply chain digitization."

Francesco Tinto

Former CIO of Walgreens Boots Alliance

"With o9, we had visibility and we were able to save on overtime. So we’re talking about unprecedented volumes and we didn't have to throw unproductive volume or dollars to that. We were able to do it properly. "

Deanna DeFillipis

Demand Planning Manager

"o9 was able to significantly improve our forecast accuracy."

Dr. Frank Stegherr

Senior Vice President of Corporate SCM and Logistics

"The decisions taken by the logistics team are already processed by the engine, a priori. They validate it, it feeds into our execution engine for track-building and shipments. The workbench allows our team to move the same-day order fill rate. Last month we actually achieved a 98.5% OFR."

Harish Lade

Vice President of Supply Chain

"After spending the large majority of my career in the Life Sciences industry, I had yet to experience, a fully native, cloud-based integrated planning solution for my end-to-end supply chain. I’m now honored to help o9 solutions pull through what I believe is an industry game-changer."