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

Quantium and Endeavour Group to launch customer intelligence engine for Drinks industry


For the first time, Endeavour Group trade partners can see how their whole market is performing, not just their own sales, in one platform powered by Quantium.

Promotional planning is becoming more evidence led. It is a good time to be ahead of the curve


Retailers have a deep knowledge of past performance and are modelling future scenarios with sophisticated data, and suppliers who understand their own promotional performance just as clearly are in a stronger position at the table.

Quantium named the first Australia-founded Preferred partner in the Anthropic Claude Partner Network


Anthropic has named Quantium a launch Preferred partner in its Claude Partner Network Services Track, on the strength of a Claude practice Quantium has run in production for more than two years.

AI strategy without practical application will not move your P&L this year


Turning AI strategy into P&L results is what sets top FMCG leaders apart. Quantium’s Group Executive and Global Head of Retail and Consumer, Kylie Gleeson, covers where true ROI lives and why trust in the data is key. 

Ten observations on creating value with AI


Frontier models are becoming table stakes. The durable advantage lies in the context you feed them and the capability and discipline to deploy them. Ten observations, drawn from our recent discussions with the world’s leading AI companies in the US, and our own lived experience using AI to transform how Quantium and our clients work.