Retail Supply Chain Planning Software to Sell More with Less Inventory
Probabilistic AI for demand forecasting, dynamic allocation and replenishment, in-season inventory optimization, and lifecycle price optimization - getting the right product in the right place at the right price across every store and channel, so you lift full-price sell-through while cutting markdowns and stockouts.
Real Results from Retail Leaders
Telefonica
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In retail, one bad buy can cost a season - and the same item can be overstocked and out of stock at once.
Retail supply chain planning software helps retailers forecast demand, optimize inventory, allocate stock across stores and channels, and improve product availability while maximizing sales, margins, and inventory productivity.
Retail planning runs on long lead times, short seasons, and limited demand history, so a single bad forecast can ruin a season. Point forecasts smooth over hyperlocal, fast-moving trends, so you end up with the classic retail paradox: some stores have empty shelves while others drown in the very same item. Layer on omnichannel fulfillment, promotion-driven volatility, and blanket discounting, and traditional, siloed planning erodes service, margin, and full-price sell-through all at once.
ToolsGroup's retail supply chain planning software closes that gap with probabilistic forecasting down to the store level and decision intelligence that allocates, rebalances, and re-prices inventory in season based on real-time demand. It continuously steers service, margin, and sell-through toward your merchandise financial plan, helping retailers improve product availability, reduce markdowns, increase full-price sales, and sell more with less inventory.
What Retail Optimization Delivers
increase in full-price sell-through
improvement in inventory efficiency
increase in in-stock percentage
margin growth across the portfolio
Why Deterministic Forecasting Fails in Retail
Traditional forecasting is deterministic – a single number per SKU, allocated once and left alone. That works for steady, high-volume basics. In retail, demand is anything but steady.
Trends move hyperlocally and fast, short seasons and long lead times leave little history, and a single average ignores how demand differs store to store. So inventory lands in the wrong places – stocked out in one location while piling up in another, often the same item – and once stock reaches the stores, traditional systems have no way to adjust. The result is markdowns on what didn’t sell and lost sales on what did.
Probabilistic planning models the full range of demand at the store level instead of one fragile number, then keeps optimizing in-season – reallocating and re-pricing inventory to where it will sell at full price. It’s the foundation Decion builds on, across dynamic allocation, responsive rebalancing, and agentic AI.
Named a Leader in the QKS Group SPARK Matrix™ for retail
ToolsGroup is recognized as a Technology Leader in the QKS Group 2024 SPARK Matrix™ for Retail Forecasting & Replenishment - for the third year running - and as a Leader in their SPARK Matrix™ analyses of Intelligent Retail Pricing & Promotion Optimization and Global Supply Chain Inventory Optimization, scored on technology excellence and customer impact.
Retail Leaders in Their Words
“Our previous systems were not able to deal with these complexities; with ToolsGroup we are finally able to precisely manage promotions and product launches.”
“With ToolsGroup we're now seeing opportunities we never had before which is a huge value for us. We're getting better at forecasts and our history continues to become cleaner in a perpetual positive cycle.”
“I found a partner in ToolsGroup that really listened. That was really unique because they didn't try to sell me an off-the-shelf tool that satisfied a typical retail business.”