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Assortment Intelligence: What it is and what are the Benefits for your business

In retail, product assortment plays a critical role in selling effectively. It impacts the everyday decision making of category managers, brand managers, merchandising, planning, and logistics teams. A good assortment mix helps achieve the following objectives:

➔   Reduce acquisition costs for new customers (as well as retain existing customers)
➔   Increase penetration by catering to a variety of customer segments
➔   Optimize planning and inventory management costs.
➔   Minimize old stock


Increasingly, retailers are moving away from a generic one-size-fits-all assortment planning model, to a more dynamic and data-driven approach. As a result, assortment benchmarking followed by assortment planning are activities that take place around the year.



A number of factors are crucial for assortment planning: analytics over internal data, intuition, experience, and understanding gained through trends. In addition to these, tracking assortment changes on competitors’ websites helps retailers track and adjust their product mix by adjusting features such as brands, colours, variants and pricing. The goal is to help users find exactly what they are looking for, the moment they are looking for it.

Let’s see how we can achieve this through Assortment Intelligence solutions in a moment. But first, some basics.

What is Assortment Intelligence?

The Assortment intelligence refers to online retailers tracking, analysing a competitor’s assortment, and benchmarking it against your assortment. A good solution such as TGN’s gives you information on the range and depth of your competitors’ assortment across categories and brands. For this reason with the help of an assortment intelligence solution, a retailer can get a good understanding of what products competitors have, how they are positioned, whether they should add these products to their existing catalogue or optimize their own assortment by removing products from it.

Who uses Assortment Intelligence?

Assortment tracking is used by retailers operating across categories as varied as footwear, electronics, jewelry, household goods, appliances, accessories, tools, handbags, furniture, clothing, toys, baby products, and books among others.

Some Uses of Assortment Intelligence

Gaps in the catalogue: Discover products/brands your competitors are offering that are not on your catalogue and add them.

Problems in Price Ranges: Examine your competitor’s products prices distribution in comparison to yours and identify gaps or overwhelm of products in price ranges.


Unique Offerings: Find products/brands that only you are offering and decide whether you are pricing them right. Maybe you want to bump up their prices.

Compare and analyze product assortment across dimensions: Benchmark your assortments across different dimensions and combinations thereof. Understand your as well as competitors’ focus areas. You can do this in aggregate as well as at the category/brand/feature level. Below we show a few examples:
–       Comprehend your competitors’ “favourite products” in terms of discounts
–       Understand assortment spread across price ranges. Are you focusing on all price ranges or only a few? Is that a decision you made consciously?

Why do it?

An Assortment Intelligence solution not only increases sales and improves margins, but also helps reduce planning and inventory costs. It allows retailers to strike the right balance between assortment and inventory while maximizing sales. Retailers can make educated decisions by analyzing their own as well as their competitors’ assortments. Businesses gain an edge by identifying opportunities around changes in product mix and making quick decisions. By identifying areas that need focus, and taking timely actions, an assortment intelligence solution will help improve the bottom line.

What does tgndata bring in?

With a feature-rich solution such as tgndata, you can maintain your competitive advantage per sector and product group. Enhance your reporting needs with our ready to use reports per brand, category & product groups. Product & Category managers report gaining at least 10 hours per week managing their assortment.
Data is gathered within a 72-hour timeframe to ensure consistency while not losing important product & category market changes.

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