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Assortment Planning Software for Retail Optimization

Optimize product mix, inventory, and customer demand with AI-driven assortment planning software.

ToolsGroup assortment planning software helps retailers optimize product mix decisions across stores, channels, and customer segments. Using AI-driven forecasting, inventory intelligence, and connected retail planning workflows, organizations can improve sell-through, reduce excess inventory, and align assortment strategies with customer demand and operational goals.

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Assortment Planning Software for Retail Optimization

Improve Product Mix and Inventory Performance

Assortment planning helps retailers align product selection, inventory, and customer demand across stores and channels.

  • 20%

    increase in replenishment purchasing efficiency

  • 3-5%

    increase in revenue growth

  • 20%

    increase in inventory turns for replenishment items

  • 10%

    increase in efficiency of purchasing allocation inventory

Overview

AI-Driven Assortment Planning for Smarter Retail Decisions

ToolsGroup assortment planning software helps retailers optimize product mix, inventory performance, assortment allocation, and operational alignment across stores and channels. Using AI-driven forecasting, inventory intelligence, customer demand analysis, and connected planning workflows, the platform continuously evaluates product performance, inventory conditions, customer preferences, and operational priorities to improve assortment decisions dynamically. Organizations can improve sell-through, reduce excess inventory, improve product availability, and align assortment strategies with customer demand. Designed for retailers, consumer goods organizations, and omnichannel commerce environments, the platform enables merchandising, inventory, and planning teams to improve assortment planning within one connected retail optimization environment.

Key Benefits

Improve Product Mix

Improve product mix decisions across stores, channels, and customer demand segments.

Reduce Excess Inventory

Reduce excess inventory and improve sell-through using AI-driven assortment optimization.

Improve Customer Experience

Improve customer experience through better product availability and assortment alignment.

Increase Responsiveness

Increase responsiveness during seasonal changes, promotions, and shifting retail demand conditions.

How ToolsGroup Is Different

  • AI-driven assortment insights

    AI-driven insights continuously optimize assortment breadth, depth, pricing, clustering, and product placeholders.

  • Flexible workflows

    Flexible workflows adapt to both internal planning processes and external market disruption.

  • Customer-centric assortments

    Customer-centric assortments optimize every stage from pre-season planning through in-season execution at attribute level.

Disconnected Assortment Decisions Reduce Retail Performance

  • Retailers often struggle to align assortment decisions with customer demand, inventory conditions, and operational priorities.
  • Limited visibility into customer behavior and inventory performance increases assortment planning risk and inefficiency.
  • Manual assortment planning workflows reduce responsiveness during seasonal shifts and changing market conditions.
  • Disconnected retail systems make it difficult to coordinate forecasting, assortment, inventory, and allocation decisions.

AI-Driven Assortment Planning

  • Connected workflows align assortment, forecasting, inventory, and allocation planning continuously.
  • AI-driven forecasting improves visibility into customer demand, inventory performance, and product trends.
  • Adaptive planning intelligence improves responsiveness during promotions, seasonal changes, and shifting customer preferences.
  • Shared visibility improves coordination across merchandising, inventory, planning, and retail operations teams.

Connected Capabilities Across Assortment Planning Workflows

Integrated planning capabilities that improve assortment optimization, forecasting, inventory visibility, and retail responsiveness.

  • Demand Forecasting

    Continuously predicts customer demand across products, stores, and retail channels dynamically.

  • Assortment Optimization

    Improves product mix decisions using AI-driven inventory and demand intelligence.

  • Inventory Visibility

    Improves awareness of inventory performance, product availability, and assortment effectiveness.

  • Operational Planning

    Improves coordination across merchandising, allocation, inventory, and retail planning teams.

Trusted by Leading Global Retail Brands

  • We implemented assortment planning and found that we could input and extract data easily and integrate the solution’s output with other key planning and execution functions… The right technology partner makes all the difference.
    Monica Tatham Senior Director Enterprise Business Solutions Abercrombie & Fitch
    Impact Improved sales & margin
  • The ToolsGroup Retail Technical Consultants delivered more than we expected. They were extremely knowledgeable about how the system works and deeply cared about understanding our business challenges and identifying how best to solve them.
    Yvonne Olsson Retail Planning Solution Specialist Clas Ohlson
  • This has been a transformative project. ToolsGroup showed us that a responsive assortment could better serve demand, capturing incremental margin and revenue.
    Nicoletta Greco CPO Motivi
    Impact €8.8M impact opportunity

Why Enterprises Choose AI-Driven Assortment Planning

ToolsGroup helps retailers improve assortment performance using connected AI-driven retail planning workflows.

Feature
ToolsGroup
Traditional Planning
Assortment Optimization
ToolsGroup Product mix decisions adapt dynamically to customer demand
Traditional Planning Assortment planning relies on static assumptions
Forecasting
ToolsGroup AI-driven forecasting improves visibility continuously
Traditional Planning Forecasting workflows react slowly to change
Inventory Visibility
ToolsGroup Inventory intelligence improves assortment performance
Traditional Planning Inventory decisions operate within disconnected systems
Responsiveness
ToolsGroup Adaptive planning improves retail agility continuously
Traditional Planning Manual workflows slow operational response

Built for Retail Merchandising and Planning Teams

ToolsGroup assortment planning software supports merchandising, inventory, allocation, and retail planning teams managing omnichannel retail complexity.

Merchandising Teams

Improve product mix decisions using connected assortment planning intelligence.

Inventory Teams

Improve inventory productivity and product availability across stores and channels.

Retail Planning Teams

Improve responsiveness during promotions, seasonal shifts, and changing customer demand.

Retail Leaders

Align assortment strategy with operational execution using AI-driven retail intelligence.

Assortment Planning Insights

Guides, research and customer results from teams solving the same problem.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about AI-driven assortment planning with ToolsGroup

What is assortment planning software?
Assortment planning software helps retailers optimize product mix decisions across stores, channels, and customer segments. It improves forecasting, inventory alignment, product availability, and merchandising performance.
How does AI improve assortment planning?
AI improves assortment planning by continuously analyzing customer demand, inventory performance, product trends, and operational data to improve product mix decisions dynamically.
What is assortment optimization?
Assortment optimization helps retailers determine the best mix of products for specific stores, channels, or customer groups based on demand, inventory, and financial goals.
How does assortment planning improve inventory productivity?
Assortment planning improves inventory productivity by aligning product selection, forecasting, allocation, and replenishment with customer demand and operational priorities.
What industries benefit from assortment planning software?
Assortment planning software is valuable for apparel, consumer goods, specialty retail, omnichannel retail, and wholesale retail organizations managing large product assortments.
How does assortment planning improve customer experience?
Assortment planning improves customer experience by ensuring the right products are available in the right stores and channels based on customer preferences and demand patterns.
Why is connected planning important in assortment planning?
Connected planning aligns forecasting, assortment, inventory, allocation, and merchandising workflows using shared visibility and planning intelligence.
How does forecasting support assortment planning?
Forecasting improves assortment planning by helping retailers anticipate customer demand, optimize product selection, and improve inventory allocation decisions.

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