Assortment Management
Simplify complex assortment processes to increase customer satisfaction and profits
The right product assortment is key in creating a customer experience that builds loyalty. Remove the guesswork and drive higher sales and margins across all channels with localized customer insights. Assortment management combines in-depth analytics, consumer purchase preferences, assortment lifecycle planning, and sizing and pre-pack optimization into a simplified workflow. With Blue Yonder’s assortment management, you can delight customers with the right assortment while maximizing profitability.
Up to
4%
Reduced Inventory
Up to
30%
Reduced Inventory Expenses
Up to
40%
Improved Planner Efficiency
Assortment Management
Create a better shopping experience for customers to improve customer satisfaction, need, preferences and increase sales.
Build a localized assortment with machine learning guidance based on customer affinity for products and touchpoints.
Use data science to predict new item ROS (Rate of Sale) for each product and touchpoint leveraging product attributes, like items, history and seasonality.
Build an assortment framework leveraging qualitative and quantitative strategies incorporating insights and historical data.
Visualize a complete season with holistic view of product offerings. Quantitatively measure at aggregated levels like class or category and reconcile plans.
Fulfill Your Assortment Potential with Blue Yonder
Better assortment frameworks
Leverage multiple data analytics and insights to help guide and build a solid conceptual plan.
Intelligent, localized assortments
Align to customer preferences and receive scoring-based recommendations on store groups for better localization.
Assumption-based planning
Plan proactively using placeholders during early stages of development cycles and easy realization with real items when available.
Improved alignment to financial plans
Gain an aggregated view of assortment plans in a category, align to merchandising and financial objectives, and review and provide inputs to merchants.
Single view of assortments
Visualize a complete season with a holistic view of product offerings and quantitatively measure at aggregated levels like class or category.
Integrated planning and execution
Integrate the merchandise financial planning process with the downstream execution systems to provide streamlined view of commitments.
"Blue Yonder have taken something hard and made it easier for us without having to reinvent the wheel. Without Blue Yonder we would have a shelving nightmare… and would lead to a disharmony between us and our clients. It has been a fantastic partnership."
–– Gene Feldman, Training Manager, Nestle Purina
“The majority of the product we sell is either seasonal or fashion oriented, because of this, it’s critical to have the right merchandise in front of the customer, whether it’s on our website or in stores. Due to the high volumes, it’s essential we have the right technology in place to support the speed to market.”
–– Randy Buffon, VP of Inventory Management at Hibbett Sports
“When our users, the people who are using the tool, have told us we’ve given them something that provides better insights, allows them to make better and different decisions, and also makes their job easier, it’s a home run for anybody that delivers technology.”
–– Eileen Mahoney, CIO, PVH Corp
“We successfully use AWR and ASR by connecting them all together to have an end-to-end supply chain.”
–– Uros Zafran, Retail Director, TUS
