Buying and merchandising

Master every product decision from sourcing to selling with AI. Transform how you negotiate with suppliers, curate assortments, and plan promotions using AI intelligence proven inside major retailers that turns merchandising decisions into competitive advantage.
Category 

sales growth
Promotional ROI
increases
Margin 

optimisation
Return on
space increases

Our solutions

Transform every transaction into strategic advantage. Q.Checkout turns your existing transaction data into customer intelligence that reveals growth opportunities competitors miss, driving measurable improvements in ranging, pricing, and promotional performance.

Key benefits:

  • Drive profitable growth by identifying your highest-value customer segments
  • Discover hidden basket patterns that unlock cross-selling opportunities
  • Understand customer movement patterns that drive sales growth
  • Make category decisions based on insights competitors don’t have
  • Deploy quickly and measure ROI

...and more across range and space, pricing and promotions, buying and cost of goods sold, and merchant insights.

Intelligent promotional optimisation drives
8-10% higher margins

Challenge

National retailer’s complex promotional planning generated too many underperforming promotions, limiting sales and margin potential.

Solution

Quantium deployed Q.Promotions with state-of-the-art analytics in an easy-to-use collaborative platform. The solution measures cannibalisation impact, forward-buy effects, and baseline comparisons, enabling a ‘stop, start, continue’ approach that maximises winners and minimises losers.

Impact
  • 8-10% higher promotional margins
  • 4-8% higher promotional sales
  • 10% reduction in number of poor-performing promotions

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