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The Assortment Planning Challenges Retailers Must Solve
MANUAL, SILOED PLANNING
Relying on disconnected tools makes it difficult to align assortments with shifting customer demand and financial goals.
MISALIGNED ASSORTMENTS
Over-assortment, underperforming SKUs, and inventory bloat limit profitability and fail to meet local customer preferences.
LACK OF DATA CONNECTION
Without integrated financial, demand, and execution insights, retailers struggle to create optimized, growth-focused assortments.
Digital Wave's AI-Native Assortment Planning
AI-Driven Assortment Planning Across Channels
Digital Wave’s Assortment Planning solution helps retailers define, rationalize, and execute optimal assortments across all stores, regions, and digital channels. Built natively into the AI-powered ONE Platform, it ensures assortment decisions are aligned with merchandise financial plans, inventory, and real-time demand.
Localized Assortments with AI Insights
By integrating sales and performance insights, AI-based recommendations, and flexible planning tools, retailers can localize assortments, reduce duplication, and improve inventory productivity.
Connected Assortment Planning for Enterprise Execution
Because Assortment Planning shares a common data model with Allocation, Replenishment, Financial Planning, Product Management, and Pricing, decisions made in one part of the business flow directly into others enabling fast, agile execution with confidence.
Key Features & Capabilities of AI-Native Assortment Planning
Automated Store Clustering & Grading
Segment locations by performance, demographics, or space for more relevant assortments.
Integration with Financial Plans & Inventory Data
Align with open-to-buy budgets and real-time supply chain constraints.
Visual Assortment Planning & SKU Rationalization
Use attribute analysis and visual tools to optimize mix by style, brand, size, color, price, and more.
Embedded Product Data from PIM & MDM
Work from the most accurate, up-to-date product catalog with complete attribution.
AI-Driven Insights & Recommendations
Leverage GenAI and analytics to highlight opportunities, gaps, or oversaturation in your current plan.
Connected Platform Intelligence
Assortment decisions are automatically informed by pricing, allocation, replenishment, and planning data within the ONE Platform.
Cross-Channel Planning & Alignment
Ensure assortments are optimized for ecommerce, mobile, stores, and marketplace needs.
Business Outcomes for Retailers
Launch optimized assortments faster, with fewer errors
Make smarter assortment decisions with AI-driven insights that align product mixes to customer demand and preferences.
Increase sell-through and inventory turns by reducing duplication and excess
Reduce manual effort with automated grading, filtering, and analytics
Align merchants, planners, and buyers around a single strategy
Localize product mixes by region, store cluster, or channel to maximize relevance and performance
Works with Your Existing Ecosystem
Digital Wave’s Assortment Planning solution integrates via open APIs with other retail solutions.
As part of the AI-native ONE Platform, it operates on a unified data model that syncs in real time across Financial Planning, Allocation, PIM, Replenishment, and Pricing—ensuring consistency and speed from strategy to shelf.
Why Digital Wave Technology
GROWTH ENGINE
Transforming mission-critical processes to drive revenue, margin, cost savings, and efficiency.
AI-NATIVE PLATFORM
Purpose-built to unify retail strategy and execution in one intelligent ecosystem.
SMARTER ALLOCATION
Gain faster insights, better results, and more control with connected planning tools.
SCALABLE EXECUTION
Built to deliver measurable results at enterprise scale, across every channel.
EXPERTLY DESIGNED
Developed by retail experts who understand how to turn data into real-world action.
Watch Assortment Planning in Action
See how Digital Wave Assortment Planning helps retailers deliver smarter, more localized product strategies.
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See how Digital Wave Assortment Planning helps retailers deliver smarter, more localized product strategies.
Want to learn more?
Download the Assortment Planning Product Sheet (PDF)
What is Assortment Planning in retail?
Assortment Planning defines what products to carry, where to carry them, and in what quantities based on demand, performance, and financial targets.
How does this solution support localization?
With store clustering, performance grading, and demand signals, retailers can tailor assortments to meet unique customer needs by region, store, or channel.
How does it connect to other ONE Platform capabilities?
Assortment Planning integrates with Financial Planning, Allocation, PIM, Replenishment, and Pricing, ensuring consistency from strategy to execution.
Does it help reduce excess inventory and improve turns?
Yes. With visual SKU rationalization and attribute filtering, retailers can refine assortments and align inventory to demand.
Is AI used in this solution?
Absolutely. AI and GenAI assist in identifying performance trends, gaps, and optimization opportunities across categories and locations.
Digital Wave’s Assortment Planning solution helps retailers build smarter, more localized product strategies by aligning assortment decisions with financial plans, forecasts, and customer demand. Embedded in the AI-native ONE Platform, it connects seamlessly to merchandise financial, allocation, replenishment, and pricing solutions enabling retailers to optimize mix, maximize margins, and deliver compelling shopping experiences at scale.