Category Management Software & Solutions

Retail Express helps retailers harness AI and real-time data to transform category management activities into a proactive, intelligence-driven function – delivering category management solutions that eliminate inefficiencies. 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:

• Category Management

  Retail Express category management software helps retailers turn strategy into profitable action. Replace the disconnected teams, spreadsheets and siloed systems that make category management difficult with a single environment for planning, modelling and optimising activity. Connect every decision to your organisational strategy, and cleanly communicate that connection business-wide.

  Category management solutions from Retail Express encapsulate all aspects of a retailer’s go-to-market approach. Forecast demand, simulate scenarios, and understand commercial impact before you commit. Use pre-market profit & loss calculations to ensure your proposition is tuned to deliver the best possible results, and build on in-store strategies with accurate projections of commercial performance. Move quickly when market conditions demand it, protect your margin, and boost promotion returns reliably and quickly.

  With budgets, competitor activity and market conditions built into the planning process, Retail Express helps retailers find the balance between price, promotion and profitability. This is commercial impact analysis that works, turning category management into a controlled and commercially focused route from strategy to execution.

• Analytics, Insight & Reporting

  Retail Express gives retailers the insight and analysis they need to understand category management, category performance, customer demand and commercial opportunity all in one place. The dashboard and reporting tools track performance by category, market and banner, combining historical data and forward-looking analysis to help teams evaluate what has happened and act on what happens next.

  This is true business intelligence, and with drill-down capability and intervention possible at every level, retailers can move from a high-level view into the detail behind performance. Category teams can identify where action is needed, understand the impact of their decisions, and intervene before margin, availability or promotional effectiveness is put at risk.

  Retail Express scientifically supports the principle of category management, with a relentless focus on commercial performance, analytics and evaluation. Category P&L brings together the impact of all prices, markdowns, incentives, promotions, adverts, events, in-store displays, flyers, coupons, loyalty bonuses and mailers into a real-time simulation that understands the effect of each touch point on the customer. Use live insights to test and refine commercial outcomes before any plan leaves the drawing board.

• Module Capabilities

  Retail Express’ intelligent merchandising engine brings AI, real-time data and automation into category management. It unites retail businesses by allowing them to manage pricing, promotions, forecasting, optimisation and supplier collaboration from a single platform, or choose those modules that matter most to them. It supports agile thinking, boosts productivity and drives commercial gains.

  The category management software itself assembles key data in a familiar format and supports the validation of go-to-market strategies by providing a clear view of key performance indicators across category, store, company and market, with sales, volume, profit and margin tracked against current and projected performance.

  Forecasting tools take account of cross-product impacts and expected uplifts, helping you anticipate and prepare replenishment and supply chain activity with greater accuracy. Scenario modelling allows teams to test different commercial plans before launch, while category P&Ls show the likely impact of business variables on future sales and profitability.

  Retail Express also supports go-to-market planning by category, sub-category, store and market, with analytical worksheets for key marketing levers and business intelligence tools for reporting, interrogation and data mining. Assortment planning adds further insight into the historical, current and predicted performance of products within each range. Combined with other smart retailing modules Retail Express helps category management drive improvements over merchandising strategy, tactics and execution. This is about achieving sales, volume, profit, and margin targets with ease.

• End-to-End Category Management Solutions

  Retail Express gives retailers end-to-end control of category management, bringing planning, analysis, execution and review into a single, integrated, commercially robust platform.

  Effective category management depends on understanding the ways product groups perform, how shoppers respond and where commercial opportunities exist. Our category management software supports that process from top to bottom. Retail Express helps retailers coordinate cross-functional teams, optimise their commercial strategy, and maximise sales and profit by targeting the changing needs of the customer.

  Modern retail demands consistency in a go-to-market approach. Retail Express is the category management solution that provides the structure, insight and control needed to turn category strategy into measurable commercial performance aligned to the total business strategy.