A leading Australian pet supplies retailer is keeping up with store growth and rapid changes in SKUs by streamlining the development and upgrading of planograms.
Operating 267 stores across Australia, Petbarn is undergoing rapid expansion, adding 13 new stores just in the past few months. Each store requires complex space planning, featuring up to 70 bays and carrying a wide range of pet products with a high volume of SKU change and localized assortment needs.
For example, manual planogram production for the pet food category, which includes fresh and frozen cooler products, would take up more than the full working hours of one space planner. Growing consumer demand for premium products and frequent introductions and discontinuations of items also helped drive constant updates in SKU data.
Already utilizing the Blue Yonder Category Knowledge Base (CKB) solution as a "single source of truth" for product data, Petbarn needed a solution that could automate large volumes of repetitive planogramming work at scale. After evaluating options, the retailer decided to move forward with implementation of artificial intelligence-enabled Crisp planogram management technology.
As a result, ...