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Drive shelf productivity with intelligent merchandising

Category teams are under constant pressure to balance brand visibility, retailer compliance, and customer-centric merchandising. Sigmoid AssortmentIQ is an AI-powered planogramming and assortment optimization solution that unifies store-level merchandising decisions into a single intelligent system. With features like smart clustering, configurable planogram visualization and SKU-level analytics, AssortmentIQ enables building impactful shelves, responding faster to change, and executing localized strategies with enterprise-wide visibility.

Sigmoid AssortmentIQ features

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Assortment planning and merchandising

Create and manage store-specific planograms by integrating product, sales, and store data, tailored to retailer constraints and cluster logic over a single platform.

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Scenario simulation using category rules

Model assortment scenarios using an interactive interface to test SKU-level changes and instantly assess their effect on shelf share, brand presence, and performance KPIs.

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Centralized product management

Manage, edit, and add SKUs directly within the platform using a centralized product catalogue across retailers featuring search, filter, and drag-and-drop functionality.

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Deep assortment analytics

Segment SKUs based on contribution thresholds, identify high-impact vs. long-tail items, and streamline assortments by store or region.

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Version control & reusability

Track planogram changes over time, reuse effective layouts across clusters, and generate shareable visual outputs for quicker alignment with retail partners.

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Enterprise-wide collaboration

Integrate seamlessly with enterprise retail systems and analytics platforms for smooth data exchange and execution across the merchandising workflow.

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Visualize, optimize and execute smarter shelf strategies

Real-time dashboard views with recommendations allow you to:


  • Spot gaps and opportunities across categories and brands
  • Track layout performance in near real-time and make changes
  • Identify top-performing products by analyzing their contribution to sales and eliminate underperformers

What makes Sigmoid AssortmentIQ unique?

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Designed for scale and complexity

Purpose-built to manage the demands of global retail networks, supporting diverse geographies, complex category hierarchies, and evolving merchandising strategies.

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Holistic view of category performance

Brings together category planning, execution, and performance measurement into one system that enables informed decision-making and long-term strategy alignment.

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Connected and actionable insights

Transforms complex retail and sales data into unified, business-ready intelligence that drives smarter merchandising strategies and cross-team alignment.

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FAQs

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Yes. AssortmentIQ supports multi-market deployments with centralized governance and local customization. It can manage thousands of store clusters, integrates with tools like JDA Space Planner, and ensures consistency across global merchandising operations.

AssortmentIQ offers end-to-end capabilities for assortment planning and planogram optimization. Users can analyze sales and product attributes to select the most effective SKU mix, then simulate various shelf configurations using a 2D visual interface. The optimization engine recommends ideal placements while accounting for business rules like Days of Supply, brand mandates, and case pack constraints, ensuring layouts are both efficient and executable in-store.

Yes. AssortmentIQ’s clustering capability ensures that assortments and planograms are optimized for specific store groups, distribution centers, or geographies, enabling hyper-local execution while maintaining category strategy alignment. This ensures that the custom planograms or shelf placement layouts are compliant yet performance-driven.

Yes, AssortmentIQ is designed to support both immediate execution needs and long-term strategic planning based on input data. Users can simulate short-term resets in response to demand shifts or product launches, while also leveraging historical data and optimization insights to shape annual category strategies, product introductions, and modular updates.

AssortmentIQ provides interactive dashboards, KPI-based reports, and scenario comparisons that make it easier to communicate the rationale behind assortment changes and shelf decisions. By offering a transparent, data-backed view of planogram performance and proposed changes, it facilitates more productive discussions with retail partners and internal stakeholders.