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TCS Optumera™: AI-powered retail multi-dimensional optimization suite
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MULTI-DIMENSIONAL OPTIMIZATION
As retailers go back to the drawing board in the post-COVID world marked with rising costs, changing shopping behavior, stifling competition, and the need to implement safety norms, being able to quickly respond to changing market needs is essential to win.
This requires a tectonic shift in the way retailers do business. The way forward is providing the required resilience to unlock exponential value with real-time, personalized, and localized decision-making.
Tata Consultancy Services’ (TCS’) Optumera, leveraging the TCS Algo Retail™ framework, is an AI-powered retail optimization suite that reshapes the retail paradigm with self-learning and multi-dimensional concurrent optimization. With integrated, hyper-localized, always-on optimization, the suite enables retailers to make key business processes autonomous through optimized space, assortment, pricing, and supply chain decisions in an integrated manner. Retailers have seen 3-5% increase in sales, 30-50% reduction in time spent, 5x more strategies, and 20-30% reduction in costs.
OVERVIEW
To facilitate continuous and cohesive customer journey across touchpoints, retailers have to follow shoppers wherever they go.
It requires re-defining business processes to be more shopper-centric and blending processes with an omnichannel retail strategy. These requirements amplify the need for a single platform to capture consumer preferences, align merchandising and supply chain strategies, analyze what-if scenarios against powerful algorithms, and rapidly execute changes.
TCS Optumera, an AI-powered retail optimization suite, enables optimized merchandising and supply chain decisions in an integrated manner. It helps retailers answer strategic question such as: how to increase sales and margin, where are the opportunities to reduce cost, how to effectively manage supply chain’s operations cost to provide real-time insights and the required resilience to make key business processes intelligent and autonomous? It considers over 1,000 factors that impact business KPIs.
Based on the decomposition of factors that drive sales, it identifies sales, margin and cost opportunities, and recommends change in merchandising and supply chain levers. Its white box approach helps business users understand the ‘why’ behind the recommendation. By combining the powers of user’s intuition and creativity with AI models, the solution enables users to consider various constraints and analyze multiple scenario simulations.
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BENEFITS
THE TCS ADVANTAGE
TCS leverages its contextual knowledge to achieve business outcomes faster, leading to quicker ROI.
TCS Retail partners with over 100 global retailers, driving their growth and digital transformation journeys. We are helping retailers become digital-first businesses with future-ready business models, strategic partnerships and products and platforms. We have gained rich experience delivering complex merchandising and supply chain transformation projects enabling us to build cost-effective, high-performance solutions.
Leading companies have adopted TCS Optumera and loved the following differentiators:
TCS Optumera, an AI-powered retail optimization suite, aids integrated decisions on merchandising and supply chain by considering over 1,000 factors that impacts business KPIs to provide answers to strategic questions such as how to increase sales and margin, and improve costs.