Service area

AI-powered retail planning.

We have redesigned retail planning with AI and new operating models.

Our experience
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How clients have engaged us.

  • Prioritized AI use cases across demand, allocation, replenishment and markdowns.
  • Redesigned planning workflows, decision rights and exception handling.
  • Led vendor selection, program steering and commercial negotiations.
  • Defined future roles, capacity and adoption plans around the work that remains.

Redesign the planning model.

  • Connect assortment and demand with allocation, replenishment and markdowns.
  • Define which decisions can be automated and which require planner approval or escalation.
  • Size teams for future workload, exceptions and peaks; define required skills.

Select, build and connect.

  • Compare vendor platforms, custom components and hybrid retail solutions.
  • Test demand shifts, promotions, new products and stockouts in realistic pilots.
  • Build planning components where they add value beyond vendor platforms.
  • Connect product, sales and stock data with ERP, suppliers and commerce.

Turn automation into performance.

  • Pilot with planners and trading teams, with explicit acceptance criteria and fallback procedures.
  • Track forecast bias alongside availability, inventory, waste, markdowns and planning effort.
  • Set ownership for data quality, model monitoring and changing business rules.
  • Link rollout, training and workforce changes to proven operating performance.

Planning vendor experience.

We have applied best practices in vendor selection, steering and negotiations.

  • Vendor selection: tested retail scenarios, integration fit and total cost.
  • Program steering: aligned business owners, vendors, integration and testing.
  • Commercial negotiations: shaped pricing, scope and delivery commitments.

Experience includes these and other planning providers.

Selected client work.

Delivered by Scipio & Partners Executive Advisors.

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