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    • Profitable Category Planning

      Aligning product groups with customer demand is the key to profitability. But category management is often difficult to get right, particularly for established retailers whose disconnected systems and outdated methods create inefficiencies. Truly successful category management requires a streamlined, integrated and fresh approach that seamlessly connects the dots to create a unified whole.
    • AI Category Management

      Retail Express can help you make things simple, with smart AI category management software that turns strategy into action, helps integrate both physical and ecommerce workflows, and aligns your merchandising activities with business goals. Centralised data provides a single source of truth, enabling teams to collaborate efficiently and make informed decisions backed by real-time insights.
    • Retail Intelligence Unlocked

      Unite supply chain administration, merchandising strategy and execution. Optimise sales, profitability and customer engagement with confidence. Category management doesn’t have to be difficult - our AI-driven tools track past performance and future projections to provide a comprehensive view of commercial success.

    Strategy & Tactics

    Visualisation & Reporting

    Analytics

    Assortment Management

    Category Planning

    Category Management

    Key Features

    Building profitability with data-driven decisions

    Retail Express helps retailers harness AI and real-time data to transform category management procurement activities into a proactive, intelligence-driven function. Through our fully integrated system, merchandising and purchasing teams benefit from easy-to-use tools, including automated workflows which eliminate inefficiencies, live category and market performance dashboards, and future-thinking scenario testing functions.

    Your data drives your decisions, and Retail Express’ category management software tools help you make sense of it. Power up your category management with features like:

    • AI-Driven Demand Modelling

      Evaluate the potential and financial impact of pricing, promotions, and markdowns before implementation.

    • Targeted Go-to-Market Strategies

      Store and market-specific category planning that aligns perfectly with your strategic objectives.

    • Comprehensive Assortment Planning & Sales Forecasts

      Assess historical, current, and projected product performance to refine category strategy.

    • Integrated Business Intelligence & Advanced Analytics

      Unlock actionable insights through data mining, reporting, and predictive analysis.

    The Benefits

    Strategy, insights and action made easy

    Procurement with Purpose

    Building a category management procurement strategy means going beyond simple merchandising. It’s about synchronicity. When you align strong assortment management with pinpoint execution, you create measurable outcomes. More profit, less waste, and a customer experience that counts.

    AI-Powered Precision

    Retail Express offers a suite of AI-powered tools that provide the insights and analytics which ensure that every step of the process – every pricing strategy, promotion and merchandising decision – helps every other step.

    Master Category Planning

    Harnessing the power of centralised data and AI analytics also helps to bring your business together. Eliminating operational silos and enhancing cross-functional collaboration enables decisions that benefit retailers from top to bottom. Unified planning, automated workflows and predictive insights offer clarity to all departments and empower businesses to stay ahead of market shifts and never miss an opportunity. Take control of your category planning and empower your business to thrive.

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    Revolutionise Your Merchandising

    Discover how Retail Express can revolutionise your merchandising approach with AI driven insights, automation, and advanced analytics. The retail landscape is changing fast – it’s time to change with it.

    Live Expert Guidance

    Gain real-time access to a product expert who can walk you through the features most relevant to your business, answer questions, and show you exactly how the software can support your growth goals.

    Actionable Recommendations

    Leave the demo with clear, actionable recommendations on how to leverage retail optimisation tools to maximize efficiency and profitability, all based on your unique business data and objectives.

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