E-Commerce Retailer Demand Planning and Pricing Solutions for Category Management
2M+ SKUs
30 Categories
50M+ Monthly Visitors
$1B Annual Revenue
Goals
Empower teams to take proactive actions to achieve the monthly sales targets
Provide category managers with predictive and prescriptive analytics to enable fast decision-making
Make demand sensitivity visible to marketplace price actions
Support the rapid growth of the company with automation and advanced analytics
Challenges
Diverse category portfolio and changing market conditions requiring agility and fast decision-making
Excess workload on planners due to manual analysis causing missed opportunities
Lack of universal view of data and actionable insights
Benefits
Automated approach to DETECT slow-moving inventory and OPTIMIZE price actions to meet budget targets
Visibility to trends through medium-term trend automated forecasting, so category managers have more time to STRATEGIZE
Automated attribute-based segmentation where assigned segments ADAPT to changing sales trends
Actionable price recommendations considering marketplace signals and competitor prices
Solutions
“As intriguing as the benefits this e-commerce retailer achieved from the planning solution, is the ongoing journey they are on to leverage artificial intelligence to deliver even greater competitive differentiation.”
Steve Banker, Vice President of Supply Chain ServicesForbes
