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Strategic retail planning superpowers

Invent.ai Planning Solution

Build a retail planning strategy that adapts, predicts and positions you for success for every product, SKU and location.
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Planning in retail has always seemed like an afterthought based on the past, and it is to a degree. Your return on investment is directly tied to how well you understand customer behaviors and how well you meet customer needs based on those behaviors. Invent.ai is changing the narrative with a complete AI-powered process for leveraging your historical data to understand your business planning needs. We create a top-down, bottom-up process for managing all major retail decisions with our intuitive AI-Decisioning Platform.

The invent.ai planning suite

Forecasting

With invent.ai’s demand forecasting solution for inventory planning, achieving precise, granular forecasts has never been simpler. Harness the power of advanced AI and demand sensing to anticipate customer needs, optimize inventory placement and enhance fulfillment performance. Whether forecasting at the regional or store level, our solution provides data-driven planning that boosts efficiency, reduces stockouts and keeps your customers satisfied.

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Merchandise Financial Planning

Merchandise financial planning (MFP) is no longer about guesswork. Invent.ai’s solution aligns financial goals with customer demand, optimizing inventory, streamlining resources and driving margin and revenue with AI-powered insights. Our MFP provides strategic top-down, bottom-up and in-season planning, all based on our AI/ML forecasts and optimization. This provides real insights along with the flexibility to run AI-driven scenarios for “what if” planning.

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Assortment Planning

Invent.ai’s advanced assortment planning solution leverages AI, consumer data and machine learning to create tailored, space-optimized product selections at scale. By managing the complexity of product and location combinations, the solution boosts efficiency, customer loyalty and satisfaction.

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Buy Optimization

Invent.ai’s AI-powered buy optimization ensures inventory investments are aligned with customer demand and financial goals, reducing excess stock, improving sell-through and increasing overall efficiency. By continuously analyzing historical sales, demand forecasts and store clustering, the system dynamically adjusts buy planning strategies to minimize risk and maximize profitability.

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why retailers need data driven planning

Why retailers need data-driven planning

  • Lay the groundwork for inventory, pricing and merchandising success
  • Reduce uncertainty with AI-driven demand forecasting
  • Align inventory strategies with financial and company-wide goals
  • Improve agility by anticipating market shifts

End-to-end retail planning leads to empiric execution

Retailers who take the time to plan in detail, execute better. You cannot improve what you don’t know, and invent.ai turns millions of potential planning decisions into those that will make the biggest impact on your bottom line. 

end to end retail planning leads to empiric execution