Assortment.AI

Assortment.AI is the assortment intelligence layer of Vision Group’s retail intelligence platform. It helps retail teams model changes to product mix, shelf space, and merchandising before rollout, then compare scenarios across stores or regions using their own rules, limits, and goals. Forecasts cover revenue, volume, and holding capacity based on store-specific conditions. The system also models potential demand shifts when a product is added or removed, including transfers to other products or brands and possible category exit. Its models use actual movement data, consumer decision trees, demand transfer rates, product information, and shelf constraints. Teams can create recommendations by store cluster and send selected strategies to Space.AI for planogram generation or to execution systems. Vision Group says decisions can inform Blue Yonder layouts and offers APIs for CPG brands to retrieve simulation outputs for analytics workflows. The product is available through web and API access. Pricing is on request, and the product page invites prospective customers to book a demo. Assortment Planning Optimisation is included in every deployment rather than sold as a separate module. Vision Group describes role-based access, audit trails, enterprise data residency options, and explainable AI decisions, and says its platform architecture is SOC 2 aligned.

Assortment.AI focuses on comparing store-specific assortment and space scenarios, including forecasts and potential demand shifts. Prospective customers must request pricing and can book a demo.

Assortment.AI is aimed at category management teams, space planning specialists, and commercial directors evaluating store-level assortment or space scenarios. It may suit teams that need selected strategies passed to planogram or execution workflows.

Overview

Assortment.AI is a retail planning product for evaluating changes to product mix, shelf space and merchandising before they reach stores. It is best suited to category and space-planning teams managing differences among locations; its strength is store-specific scenario forecasting, while its custom-priced, demo-led sales process makes it a considered enterprise purchase.

As part of Vision Group’s retail intelligence platform, it connects assortment decisions with downstream planning and execution. Retailers seeking a broad, self-service tool or a published price should look elsewhere.

Key features

Compare store and regional scenarios

Teams can test assortment, space and merchandising changes across stores or regions, applying their own rules, limits and goals. Forecasts cover revenue, volume and holding capacity based on store-specific conditions. That makes the product relevant when a retailer needs recommendations by store cluster rather than one uniform answer; for a chain with little variation between locations, the scenario depth may be more than the job requires.

Account for demand shifts

When a SKU is added or removed, Assortment.AI models possible demand transfers to other products or competitors, as well as category exit. Its models use actual movement data, consumer decision trees, demand transfer rates, product data and shelf constraints. Considering those effects can give planners a fuller view of a proposed change than looking at the affected SKU alone, though the output depends on the inputs and rules used in the retailer’s scenarios.

Carry decisions into execution

Teams can send selected assortment strategies to Space.AI for planogram generation or to execution systems. Vision Group says Assortment.AI decisions can inform Blue Yonder layouts, and its APIs let CPG brands retrieve simulation outputs for analytics workflows. These connections make the product more useful when assortment decisions need to feed subsequent planning or analysis, rather than stay in a standalone review.

Deployment and governance

Vision Group describes role-based access, audit trails with data provenance, enterprise data residency options and explainable AI decisions. Its platform architecture is described as SOC 2 aligned, and customers are directed to the team for compliance documentation. Deployment includes ongoing support and quarterly reviews with model adjustments, a managed approach that may suit enterprise teams but is less like a self-serve software rollout.

Pricing

Assortment.AI is paid software with custom pricing. Prospective customers can book a demo; there is no public plan price to compare before speaking with the team. That makes it a better fit for organizations prepared for a sales-led evaluation than for buyers who need a clear budget or subscription terms upfront.

Assortment Planning Optimisation is included in every deployment rather than sold as a separate module. That removes a separate module decision, but the published plan information does not give buyers a basis for comparing multiple tiers. Pricing and purchase terms should be confirmed during the sales process.

Platforms

Assortment.AI is offered for web use and through an API. The API is relevant to CPG brands seeking simulation outputs for analytics workflows; web is the listed platform for using the product directly.

Who it's for

Vision Group identifies category management teams, space planning specialists and commercial directors as its intended users. It is especially relevant to retailers whose stores differ enough that a product mix or shelf change needs to be assessed by location or region. Its store-cluster recommendations and demand-transfer modeling target decisions with consequences beyond a single SKU.

It is less suited to buyers looking for public, self-serve pricing or a simple uniform assortment plan. The demo-led process and custom pricing call for an organization ready to evaluate the product with the vendor.

Pros and cons

• Store-specific forecasts: Revenue, volume and holding capacity forecasts account for store conditions, supporting decisions across varied locations.
• Broader view of demand: The model considers transfers to other products or competitors and category exit when a SKU changes.
• Planning-to-execution path: Selected strategies can flow to Space.AI or execution systems, with Blue Yonder layouts also identified as an informed output.
• Custom pricing and demo required: Buyers cannot compare a public price before contacting the team.
• Focused on assortment planning: Its value is strongest for store-level assortment, space and merchandising scenarios, not buyers seeking a general-purpose planning product.

Alternatives

NIQ is another paid option, with Android, iOS, web, Windows and API platforms; consider it if those platform choices are a better fit.

SAP Retail is a paid option spanning web, mobile, desktop, Linux, API, extension and self-hosted platforms. Its listed private-edition merchandise-management plan has a contract duration of one to five years, so it may suit buyers evaluating that deployment and commitment instead.

AssortSmart is another paid alternative.

Centric Planning & Pricing is a paid web product with custom pricing and a demo request, making it another option for buyers comparing sales-led planning tools.

RELEX Demand Planning is a paid web alternative.

Vusion Assortment is a paid alternative with pricing available on request by demo.

Circana Liquid Activation is a paid web product with a free trial, which may be preferable to buyers who want to try an option before committing.

Increff Merchandising Software is a paid cloud SaaS platform with a free trial and demo-based purchasing.

For a broader comparison, see Retail Assortment Planning Software.

Verdict

Assortment.AI is a strong fit for retail teams that need to compare store-level assortment and space decisions, forecast their effects and carry chosen strategies toward execution. Its demand-transfer modeling and location-aware forecasts are the clearest reasons to choose it. Look elsewhere if public pricing, a self-serve buying path or a less specialized planning tool is the priority.