Retail Planning

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Retail Planning

Smart category management and omni-channel shopping experiences powered by real-time data, AI-driven insights and network intelligence.

Overview

Your customers expect more

Localized assortments. Higher convenience. Tailored buyer journeys that stay consistent across channels. 
And if you don’t deliver to expectations, someone else will. 

Empower your retail teams to make better planning decisions, faster:

  • A fully integrated planning suite on the Blue Yonder Platform that aligns retail strategies to business goals and helps teams make faster, more confident decisions.
  • Real-time market, customer and network-connected insights that help retailers respond faster to changing demand and business conditions.
  • Agentic AI and AI agents help retailers evaluate scenarios, identify exceptions and recommend actions that improve decision quality across stores and channels.

Demand & Data Services

Know your customers and the market

Merchandise

Build your product lifecycle strategy

Finance

Set reliable, measurable goals

Assortment

Design store-specific product mixes

Space

Deliver the ideal in-store customer experience

Inventory

Maximize profitability while accounting for uncertainty

Why Cognitive?

A single foundation for better planning decisions

Connect retail planning teams through a shared data foundation on the Blue Yonder Platform, helping keep decisions aligned to business goals and customer demand.

AI that helps planners move faster

Agentic AI and AI agents help planners evaluate scenarios, identify exceptions and recommend actions that improve decision quality across stores and channels.

See beyond your four walls

Combine real-time market and customer information with network-connected intelligence to respond faster to demand shifts, disruptions and emerging opportunities.

Do more with less

Eliminate silos and standalone processes, bringing every planning team under the same view so you can focus their limited time and attention where it matters most. 

You don’t have to change everything…to change everything

Go big or start small—Blue Yonder’s flexible, platform-based architecture means that every retail planning “transformation” is at your pace, focused on your priorities.
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Success stories in Retail Planning

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