Why retailers need AI assortment planning
Assortment decisions are rarely chain-wide in practice.
Store size, mission, region, customer profile, local competition, and space constraints all change what the right range looks like.
Without modelling, retailers often keep duplicate SKUs, miss local demand, and overload stores with low-productivity items.
- Chain-wide assortments often ignore local demand differences.
- Duplicate variants add complexity without incremental value.
- Low-rotation SKUs consume working capital and shelf space.
- New item and delisting decisions are hard to validate in advance.