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Category Recommendation

Without data-driven category recommendations, merchants are forced to rely on intuition and manual analysis, leading to inaccurate product mixes and lost sales. With Locatium, category management and merchandising teams can finally break free from one-size-fits-all approaches and tailor their product offerings to the unique needs of each store's local market, driving increased sales and customer satisfaction. By leveraging AI-powered insights, teams can optimize category mixes and assortment depth to perfectly match local demand profiles.

2.8x
Faster category optimization
15%
Increase in sales uplift
30%
Reduction in inventory costs
The Challenge

What makes category recommendation hard today

Insufficient local insights
Central planning teams lack granular understanding of local customer behavior and preferences, leading to misaligned product mixes.
Inaccurate demand forecasting
Overreliance on historical sales data fails to account for emerging trends, seasonality, and external factors, resulting in perpetual inventory imbalances.
Manual category review process
Time-consuming and labor-intensive review processes hinder agility, causing slow responses to changing market conditions and lost revenue opportunities.
Inefficient product allocation
Rigid category plans and inadequate inventory management lead to overstocking in some areas and stockouts in others, causing unnecessary costs and missed sales.
The Product

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AI Retail Network Expansion
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Case Studies

See category recommendation in action

Retail · Global
Supermarket Network Planning
78%
Faster planning
$40M
Value created
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