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Make Retail Complexity a Problem of the Past

Deliver the right products in the right place at the right time for the right price to maximize profitability when you replace manual, fragmented planning with intelligent, AI-powered end-to-end supply chain planning designed by and for retailers.

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Retail Is Changing at a Virtually Unmanageable Pace

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

 

Traditional Retail Planning Keeps Merchandising Teams Stuck Chasing the Business Instead of Driving the Business Strategically

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

Retailers Rely on Reactive Decisions That Limit Scale

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.

Maintaining the Status Quo Costs Retailers

  • 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

Delight Customers and Drive Demand

ToolsGroup helps retailers sense, shape, and shift demand to reduce markdowns, prevent stockouts, and enhance customer loyalty while improving profitability.

How We Enable Planners to Anticipate Consumer Behavior and Optimize Demand, Inventory and Fulfillment Across the Retail Supply Chain:

True probabilistic forecasting that allows you to allocate inventory based on real-time variability in customer demand without additional planner complexity

In-season inventory optimization that maximizes your margins by increasing full-price sales and avoiding markdowns— all costs accounted for in the optimization

Lifecycle price optimization from initial price through promos and markdowns, designed to control demand and achieve your merchandise financial plan

Customer-centric, AI-driven assortments that automatically identify the attributes critical to plan and adjust for novelty to drive sales throughout the season

AI-optimized, automated planning that reduces operational costs and frees planners to focus on strategic decisions and advanced scenario planning

Outperform with Agility and Precision by Moving from Reactive to Strategic Retail Planning

15%
Increase in full-price sell-through



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30%
Improvement in inventory efficiency



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25%
Increase in in-stock percent



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Up to 5pp
Margin growth



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10%
Reduction in inventory while growing sales



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How We Enable Planners to Anticipate Consumer Behavior and Optimize Demand, Inventory and Fulfillment Across the Retail Supply Chain:

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Belk customer

Reduced inventory levels by 15% while increasing in-stock percent by 2pp, all while accelerating a growth rate of 200 stores per year with fewer planners needed 

PEPCO
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The Top 15 Retail Trends for 2022
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Optimized allocation through highly attuned demand sensing to reduce inventory levels 18% and reduce obsolescence 40% 

Amplifon
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Amplifon Senses Data for Complete Supply Chain Visibility
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Sensing Demand at the Point of Sale
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Increased sell-through by 4% with 12% less inventory in stores, all while increasing customer-centricity in the assortment and improving in-stock percent by 47% 

Boggi Milano
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Boggi Milano automates its supply chain replenishment with Evo Pricing’s AI solution, built on Microsoft technology
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Boggi Milano automates its supply chain replenishment with Evo Pricing’s AI solution, built on Microsoft technology
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Grew margins by €4.2 million in a single season while accelerating turnover, which increased sell-through by 14% and reduced previous season overstock by 21% 

PittaRosso
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With AI, PittaRosso has solved the problem of inventories
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Reduced markdown costs by $30 million and reduced fulfillment costs by $7.5 million in a single year despite massive increases in online purchases 

Fulfill.io 101: Achieving Multiple Objectives for Better Margins
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