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Turn Uncertainty into an Advantage with AI-Powered Retail Planning and Execution

Product, place, channel, price, time – get it right every time with cutting-edge AI to maximize your margin and profits.

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Trusted by leading retailers worldwide

Why do so many retailers trust ToolsGroup? Because we understand your challenges.

Retailers face increasing uncertainty every day. They need a tool that embraces and thrives amid that uncertainty, adjusting to disruption in real time. ToolsGroup’s agile JustEnough solution was designed for retailers – by retailers – to help you optimize in season to navigate uncertainty confidently.

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Eroding Margins

Retail margins have shrunk 3-5pp per year, creating the highest inventory to sales ratios in years, creating economic precarity for even the most trusted retail brands.


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Bloated Inventory Levels and Waste

Excess inventory overstuffs warehouses, making it impossible to get an accurate inventory count, much less achieve the desired turnover.


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Changeable and Demanding Customer Expectations

Customers expect to find exactly what they want, when and where they need it, or they turn to a competitor – even as fast-paced retail trends mean that preferences fluctuate faster than ever.


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Omnichannel Complexity

The rise of e-commerce makes it increasingly complicated to allocate inventory where it is needed and fulfill orders in a cost-effective manner, creating availability gaps and putting further pressure on margins.


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Market Competitiveness and Economic Uncertainty

Retailers are squeezed on both sides as economic downturn, inflation, and shortages increase costs and reduce consumer spending as customers search elsewhere for the best deal.


Our Retail Customers Have Achieved:

15%

Increase in Full-Price Sell-Through

3.5pp

Increase in EBITDA

15-30%

Increase in Inventory Efficiency

6%+

Revenue Growth

15%

Increase in Full-Price Sell-Through

3.5pp

Increase in EBITDA

15-30%

Increase in Inventory Efficiency

6%+

Revenue Growth

Our solutions provide retailers with proven tools and strategies that sense, predict, and respond to market changes to optimize every retail decision for powerful business results. What makes it the best?

01

Smarter, More Responsive Retail Planning

ensures the best assortments for each store to meet local customer demand while delivering on ambitious financial goals.

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02

Streamlined, Automated Allocation and Replenishment

reduces network complexity and delights customers by always having the perfect product in stock.

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03

Highly Attuned AI Demand Sensing

capabilities respond to changes in consumer preferences in real time, giving customers more of what they expect on shelves.

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04

Customer-Centric, Dynamic Pricing

optimizes retail pricing and maximizes margin across the full product lifecycle, from initial prices through markdowns.

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05

Dramatic Reductions in Fulfillment Costs

allow retailers to meet increasingly shorter acceptable delivery times from customers while protecting profitability.

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06

Real-time Inventory Visibility

from the cutting-edge Inventory Hub platform eliminates siloing across functions and ensures an accurate inventory count.

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01

Smarter, More Responsive Retail Planning

ensures the best assortments for each store to meet local customer demand while delivering on ambitious financial goals.

02

Streamlined, Automated Allocation and Replenishment

reduces network complexity and delights customers by always having the perfect product in stock.

03

Highly Attuned AI Demand Sensing

capabilities respond to changes in consumer preferences in real time, giving customers more of what they expect on shelves.

04

Customer-Centric, Dynamic Pricing

optimizes retail pricing and maximizes margin across the full product lifecycle, from initial prices through markdowns.

05

Dramatic Reductions in Fulfillment Costs

allow retailers to meet increasingly shorter acceptable delivery times from customers while protecting profitability.

06

Real-time Inventory Visibility

from the cutting-edge Inventory Hub platform eliminates siloing across functions and ensures an accurate inventory count.

How Are Leading Retailers Driving Success with ToolsGroup?

Inventory optimization

In-Season Inventory
Optimization

Customer-Centric, Local Assortments

Customer-Centric, Local
Assortments

Dynamic Full Lifecycle Pricing

Dynamic Full Lifecycle
Pricing

Inventory optimization

In-Season Inventory
Optimization

Customer-Centric, Local Assortments

Customer-Centric, Local
Assortments

Dynamic Full Lifecycle Pricing

Dynamic Full Lifecycle
Pricing

We have been very pleased working with ToolsGroup and impressed with the value we’ve gained through the new solutions. The results have been very clear, specifically regarding visibility into presentation stock, predictive shortfalls, and reduced stock-outs.”

Jolann Van Dyk, CIO, Kathmandu

Customer Stories

See how distributors around the globe are leveraging ToolsGroup planning capabilities for higher service levels, better margins, and smarter inventory management.

I think it just makes sense to use the machine learning and the logic that Dynamic Fulfillment has to make better business decisions in terms of fulfillment. Our results speak for themselves.”

Chaitanya Tamane, VP of Omnichannel Operations

  • Roles-based allocation process
  • Lacked modern optimization needed for a more complex network of stores
  • Highly unbalanced inventory: markdowns needed to clear inventory in some areas while others experienced stockouts
  • Unpredictable labor costs and parcel costs were eating into margins
  • $30 million savings in markdown costs
  • $7.5 million reduction in shipping costs
  • Less shipment complexity
  • Improved in-store service levels
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Chaitanya Tamane, VP of Omnichannel Operations at Belk

I’m excited to share one of the many ways Abercrombie & Fitch Co. strives to provide customer satisfaction and how ToolsGroup helps us achieve some of those goals.”

Monica Tatham, Senior Director for Enterprise Business Solutions

  • Difficult to support regional autonomy while adhering to overall company strategy
  • Need to drive sales and margin across all categories
  • Desire to optimize inventory and build a more customer-centric assortment
  • Improved sales and margin
  • More efficient assortment architecture
  • Enhanced customer satisfaction
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Monica Tatham, Senior Director for Enterprise Business Solutions at Abercrombie & Fitch

From the very beginning, it was clear that the Evo PriceAI strategy would deliver above and beyond our expectations. The immediate impact on our bottom line was undeniable.

Larry Gilbert, CEO

  • Traditionally used cost-plus pricing model
  • Low volume and diverse SKUs at each store
  • Massive markdowns required to clear merchandise at the end of relatively short exhibitions and events, eroding margin
  • Sustainability and waste minimization both high corporate priorities
  • 6% like-for-like-sales growth
  • 2% per-customer sales increase
  • 300+% increase in cumulative revenue from previous year
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