Make Retail Complexity a Problem of the Past

Retailers face intense margin pressure from rising costs, fast-changing consumer preferences, and heightened competition from large omnichannel giants, compounded by challenges like:

• Unpredictable demand swings driven by increasingly localized, fast-moving trends
• Increasing customer expectations for 100% availability wherever and whenever
• Economic uncertainty compressing discretionary spending

Manual, siloed planning processes that consume planner time, limiting agility and slowing response to market shifts

High levels of markdowns and promotions to clear overstocks and satisfy today’s discount-driven consumer

• Planning blindspots and a lack of localized customer demand visibility, leading to stockouts in some stores and overstock in others
• Eroding margins and profitability from blanket discounts that fail to drive incremental sales
• Fulfillment complexity that leads to unsustainable operational costs and disappointed customers

Most retailers still rely on manual spreadsheets, simple rule-based pricing, and reactive inventory transfers to try to manage today’s retail complexity. This leaves many retailers constantly a step behind customers, chasing to catch up.

• Lost sales from frequent stockouts of high-demand items
• Overstocks and end-of-season waste that eat away at margin
• Cyclical promo pressures with diminishing returns on non-strategic discounts
• Planner burnout created by the reactive, firefighting culture born out of time spent on manual processes
• Inability to compete with the agility, personalization and efficiency of large omnichannel retailers