Retail Analytics That Recommends the Action

How Are Retail Exceptions Ranked by Business Impact?

Every exception is prioritized by business impact, so teams focus attention where it matters most. Issues with very different consequences do not sit in one uniform queue.

Solvoyo’s cloud engine detects significant changes in demand patterns, availability, lead times and OTIF rates automatically. Each exception arrives with context and a recommended action, so planners do not have to build their own analysis before deciding what to do. The same ranking by impact runs across the whole supply chain in supply chain analytics and visibility.

What Analytics Platform Supports Better Stock Performance Decisions for Retailers?

Solvoyo identifies excess stock, stockouts, slow-movers, perishable waste and at-risk inventory continuously and quantifies each in financial terms. Supply chain, category and finance teams share one real-time view of inventory health, so working capital problems and spoilage costs surface before period-end. For more on hidden stock problems, read our post on phantom inventory and its hidden cost.

Dead stock and obsolescence risk are flagged before write-offs become unavoidable. Waste is traced to its root causes at the store, category and SKU level: excess ordering, inaccurate shelf-life forecasting, poor markdown timing or supply chain delays.

Recommended actions are generated automatically for each issue type, from reallocation and markdown timing to supplier return coordination. Teams act on the highest-impact opportunities and fix the planning failures behind each problem. Inventory planning sets optimal stock targets tied to your service strategy, and pricing and markdown optimization sets markdown timing and depth at the SKU or color-option level.

How Do You Track Vendor Performance With an OTIF Scorecard?

Solvoyo tracks supplier performance continuously across OTIF rates, lead time reliability, fill rates and order accuracy. Procurement and supply chain teams see which vendors protect service levels and which add the variability behind safety stock inflation, emergency buys and downstream stockouts.

Vendor scorecards are built automatically from actual transaction data, and vendors do not self-report the metrics. Performance reviews are faster and more objective, and the scores are harder to dispute.

Chronic underperformers are identified at the SKU and lane level as well as the supplier level. Root cause analysis can tell a systemic reliability problem from an isolated product or route issue, and corrective conversations with suppliers rest on specific, quantified evidence. For wider context, read our post on vendor collaboration in volatile markets.

How Do You Cluster Stores by How They Sell?

Solvoyo clusters stores along several dimensions at once: revenue profile, sales price positioning, physical capacity, size-selling patterns for apparel and category contribution mix. Merchandising and supply chain teams get a structured, data-driven basis for localization decisions that geography or store format alone cannot supply. Our whitepaper covers approaches to retail store clustering.

Clusters are built on how stores actually sell, whatever their administrative grouping. They surface assortment localization opportunities that aggregate reporting would never reveal: the regional stores where a size curve diverges significantly from the chain average, the categories where a cluster of high-revenue locations is systematically undersupplied, or the format group where a promoted item consistently underperforms against plan.

Analytics capabilities combine data from multiple internal and external sources. Automated analysis and diagnostics draw insights from big data and support faster, easier decision-making, so category and regional teams act on localization opportunities with analytical confidence.

Solvoyo optimizes employee shift schedules to store traffic and sales forecasts, in line with skills, labor laws and regulations.

Real-time traffic data informs how staff are distributed across checkout, fitting rooms, shop floor and storage. KPI tracking covers retention, productivity and hours.

Which Software Automates Retail Planning Recommendations?

Solvi, Solvoyo’s AI planning agent, recommends exactly what to do about each problem it finds. It identifies the root causes behind exceptions, quantifies the business impact of inaction and generates prioritized action items. Planners review and execute those items directly in the platform.