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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
Most assortment planning tools operate in silos, forcing merchants to juggle disconnected data and outdated spreadsheets. Digital Wave’s AI-native Assortment Planning solution is embedded within the ONE Platform combining AI, unified data, and real-time workflows for assortments that are localized, financially aligned, and execution-ready.
Localized Assortments with AI Insights
With AI-based recommendations, sales performance insights, and flexible planning tools, retailers can rationalize assortments, reduce duplication, and tailor product mixes to every store, region, and channel improving inventory productivity and customer relevance.
Connected Assortment Planning for Enterprise Execution
Because Assortment Planning shares a common data model with Allocation, Replenishment, Merchandise Financial Planning, Product Management, and Pricing, every decision flows seamlessly into execution. The result: faster, more agile planning cycles and assortments that deliver profitability and customer impact.
Why It’s Different
Native to the ONE Platform: Unlike legacy assortment planning tools that operate in silos, Digital Wave’s solution is embedded in an AI-native platform with real-time master data and intelligence powering every decision.
AI-Driven Localization: Built-in AI and GenAI insights optimize assortments by store, region, and channel, helping retailers deliver more relevant, profitable product mixes that align with customer demand.
Enterprise Execution Advantage: Assortment Planning shares a unified data core with pricing, allocation, replenishment, and merchandise financial planning, ensuring strategy flows seamlessly into execution at enterprise scale.
Key Capabilities of AI-Native Retail Assortment Planning
Automated Store Clustering & Grading
Group stores by demand profiles and performance in seconds, delivering assortments tailored to regional behaviors with speed and accuracy.
AI-Assisted Recommendations
Use native AI to suggest optimal product mix, depth, and localization based on performance data, demand signals, and business priorities.
Visual SKU Rationalization
Quickly compare and optimize SKU mix across categories with intuitive visual tools that reduce duplication, cut overstock, and boost margins.
Unified Data Foundation
Operate within a single governed data model shared with Allocation, Replenishment, MFP, and Pricing for seamless strategy-to-execution alignment.
Scenario-Based Assortment Modeling
Run “what-if” scenarios for assortment changes, demand shifts, and inventory constraints then select the mix that maximizes sales and profitability.
Integrated Financial & Inventory Alignment
Ensure assortments are directly tied to financial targets, inventory levels, and supply chain capacity, bridging planning with execution.
Hierarchical Planning & Roll-Up
Plan at the category, cluster, store, or channel level with full roll-up visibility, balancing localized decisions with enterprise-wide control.
Collaborative, Role-Based Workflows
Enable merchants, planners, and supply chain teams to collaborate in real time with governed workflows, reducing silos and speeding execution.
Business Outcomes with AI-Native Assortment Planning
Accelerate assortment precision. Deliver store-specific assortments faster and more accurately with native AI, boosting customer relevance and performance.
Enable agile execution. Hierarchical roll-ups and connected workflows enable faster rollout across stores, regions, and channels.
Reduce inventory costs. Cut overstock and underperforming SKUs, reducing markdown exposure and freeing capital for higher-value products.
Align strategy with execution. A unified data backbone ensures category strategy flows seamlessly into allocation, replenishment, and financial planning.
Improve decision confidence. Evaluate scenarios and collaborate in a unified environment, so teams act decisively with full visibility.
Drive margin uplift. Localized, data-driven assortments validated by AI deliver higher profitability at the store and regional level.
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.
TAILORED ASSORTMENTS
Balance demand, space, and strategy with localized, AI-informed product mixes.
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.
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Frequently Asked Questions about Retail Assortment Planning
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.
How does Assortment Planning improve collaboration across retail teams?
Digital Wave’s AI-native Assortment Planning enables merchants, planners, supply chain, and marketing teams to work in one connected environment. With governed workflows and shared master data, teams can align on financial goals, customer demand, and inventory strategies—reducing silos and accelerating execution across the enterprise.
Targeted Assortments, Better Performance
Digital Wave’s Assortment Planning solution helps retailers build intelligent product strategies by aligning assortment decisions with financial plans, forecasts, and customer demand. Embedded in the AI-native ONE Platform, it connects to merchandise financial, allocation, replenishment, and pricing solutions, enabling retailers to optimize mix, maximize margins, and deliver compelling shopping experiences at scale.