Assortment planning by invent.ai

AI-powered assortment planning that aligns the right products with the right stores—while protecting space, margin and customer relevance.

Invent.ai helps retailers balance strategic goals with real-time constraints—so you can optimize sell-through, reduce excess inventory and deliver localized product mixes that perform.

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1-5%

increase in profits

5-10%

increase in sales

4%

higher inventory turns

Simplify the complexity

Assortment planning is complex and often imprecise—relying on historic trends, manual clustering and disconnected inputs. The result: shelves misaligned with demand, understocked products and eroded margins and trust.

Invent.ai’s assortment planning solution cuts through complexity with AI, consumer data and machine learning to create space-optimized, customer-aligned assortments at scale. From one store to thousands, it balances inventory, demand signals and financial goals to boost sell-through, loyalty and performance.

AI-driven planning that drives sell-through and localized performance

Assortment planning is where retail strategy meets execution. With invent.ai, retailers can automate planning, adapt assortments to real customer demand and localize with precision—ensuring the right mix of products is in the right place, every time.

Here's how:

Eliminate manual work

Automate assortment planning workflows to reduce errors and free up time for higher-value decisions.

Visualize your assortment mix

Gain a clear, data-driven view of product categories and their performance that supports faster, more informed decisions.

Align assortment with customer demands

Ensure product selections meet real shopper preferences at the local level.

Tailor assortments by store and region

Generate localized product recommendations that reflect regional demand and store-specific preferences.

Why choose invent.ai for assortment planning?

Use AI to build assortments that align with demand, maximize space, and strengthen customer loyalty—across every region and store.
Invent.ai combines predictive insights, automated planning, and product-level intelligence to ensure every assortment decision drives value and supports business goals.

Our solution supports a fully connected assortment planning process, helping retailers make confident, localized decisions with:

Automated recommendations and streamlined workflows
Localized assortments tailored to store-specific demand
Trend alignment and forward-looking demand planning
Balanced inventory efficiency and value delivery
Visual tools to evaluate and refine product mix
AI-driven new product attribution and placement planning

Why choose invent.ai for assortment planning

The science behind it

Invent.ai transforms assortment planning with AI/ML-driven decisioning, forecasting and clustering to optimize product selection and distribution. By analyzing data, trends and behaviors, assortments align with financial goals and demand—maximizing revenue and minimizing excess stock.

Automated clustering, scenario modeling and AI recommendations replace manual planning with data-driven precision—boosting efficiency, improving sell-through and driving higher sales and margin.

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Invent.ai’s AI/ML handles the sales analysis for you. Review the recommendations and begin building your assortment with a style-color plan that includes recommended choice counts and the sales, revenue and inventory contribution of each category.

The solution also provides range planning suggestions, identifying which items should go to which stores or clusters.

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Timeline decisions matter, so our Gantt plan brings clarity to product lifecycles and store readiness.

AI/ML analysis tracks assortment performance throughout the season, helping you respond to trends, identify gaps and review strategies. End-of-season reviews highlight opportunities for improvement and inform future planning.

AI-powered assortment planning that drives localized performance

Invent.ai helps retailers create AI-optimized assortments that reflect real customer demand and space constraints at every location. With predictive insights, store-level clustering and dynamic modeling, teams can align assortments with shopper preferences—reducing excess inventory, improving sell-through and enabling faster decisions that boost margin and build loyalty across channels.

Here’s how:

Eliminate manual work with automated workflows
Visualize category performance to support faster decisions
Align product selections with real shopper preferences
Tailor assortments to store-specific and regional demand
Maximize space efficiency with customer-aligned plans
Accelerate decisions with real-time forecasting and insights
Empower teams with clear visibility and collaboration tools

The result: streamlined operations, better assortments, faster decisions and teams empowered to meet customer demand efficiently.

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