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AI that manages merchandising decisions autonomously

Transform your entire merchandising operation with the UiPath Solution for merchandising, intelligently optimizing every decision from supplier to store shelf.

The UiPath solution for Merchandising

AI that manages merchandising decisions autonomously

Transform your entire merchandising operation with the UiPath Solution for merchandising, intelligently optimizing every decision from supplier to store shelf.

AI merchandising for pricing, promotions, and replenishment

The UiPath Solution for merchandising transforms how retailers manage every part of the merchandising lifecycle. It turns complex pricing, inventory, and promotion decisions into actions that adapt in real time.

READY TO DEPLOY

Markdown

Protect margin while clearing stock.

Elasticity models time price reductions at the SKU level. Markdown agents execute approved changes across digital and physical channels with full audit documentation.

  • Price elasticity analysis
  • Cross-channel markdown execution
  • Continuous learning loop
  • Human-in-the-loop approvals

READY TO DEPLOY

Promotions

Campaigns that adapt to demand.

Promotion and campaign agents forecast impact, surface recommendations, and execute approved offers across digital and physical channels.

  • Demand-informed campaign planning
  • Scenario modeling and simulation
  • Multi-channel campaign execution
  • Human-in-the-loop approvals

READY TO DEPLOY

Replenishment

Right stock in the right place.

Demand forecasting and stock optimization keep shelves stocked while limiting capital tied up in inventory. Rebuy agents generate purchase orders and track supplier commitments.

  • SKU-level demand forecasting
  • Safety stock optimization
  • Rebuy and purchase order agents
  • Human-in-the-loop approvals

AI retail merchandising use cases

Transform merchandising from reactive to predictive across your entire retail operation. Analyze market dynamics, optimize strategies, and execute decisions while you focus on growing your business.

MARKDOWN

Strategic markdown intelligence

Optimize timing and pricing for inventory clearance while protecting margins and preserving brand value.

PROMOTIONS

Real-time pricing decisions

Get real-time pricing and promotional strategies that optimize revenue and margin based on market conditions and competitive landscape.

INVENTORY

Intelligent inventory optimization

Balance stock levels across suppliers, distribution centers, and stores to minimize costs while maximizing availability and customer satisfaction.

BUYING & FORECASTING

Enhanced buying intelligence

Forecast demand patterns and allocate inventory to maximize sales potential while minimizing waste across your product portfolio.

DECISION GUARDRAILS

Business-aligned decision making

Apply your own business rules and guardrails to ensure automated decisions align with your brand standards, compliance requirements, and objectives.

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How agentic intelligence works

The solution uses advanced forecasting and optimization models to keep inventory levels balanced—reducing excess stock, avoiding missed sales, lowering shipping costs, and supporting healthy working capital. These models work together with dynamic pricing capabilities that generate SKU-level recommendations, helping retailers meet customer demand while protecting margins and driving profitable growth.

Predict

AI forecasts customer demand, price sensitivity, and inventory needs across products and locations.

Decide

AI recommends inventory levels, reorder quantities, promotional strategies, and markdown timing.

Act

Agents execute purchase orders, replenishment, and campaign management with audit-ready traceability.

Explore the full UiPath Platform

The UiPath Platform brings agentic automation, orchestration, governance, and testing into one system. Built for retailers running merchandising at enterprise scale.

Built for the way merchandisers work

Advanced UX in the UiPath Solution for merchandising surfaces key tasks, delivers tailored insights, and guides users with AI recommendations so they can resolve issues faster and act with confidence.

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Autopilot

Personalized AI assistant with a natural language conversational interface. It uses knowledge bases, custom actions, analytical visualizations, and canvas outputs to help users automate tasks across all roles, including business users and developers.

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Personalized agentic homepage

A personalized hub for merchandisers that highlights the most important agentic exception management tasks and provides smart agent suggestions and insights. Prioritized actions are tailored to each user’s specific operational needs.

Automation’s second act: The agentic imperative

Canvas

User-specific experiences that deliver tailored insights, reports, and operational interfaces for the work merchandisers do every day.

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Agentic actions

The UX gives AI-driven guidance on next-best steps, with agents helping users make smarter, faster decisions. It supports replenishment and rebuy by handing tasks to agents and managing outcomes to optimize purchasing workflows.

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The future of retail is agentic

Discover how AI that predicts, decides, and acts changes how merchandisers balance margin, stock, and customer experience.

AI merchandising FAQs

Common questions about AI merchandising, agentic merchandising automation, and how the UiPath Solution for merchandising fits with the systems your retail business already runs.

  • AI merchandising uses forecasting, optimization, and intelligent agents to manage decisions across pricing, promotions, markdowns, replenishment, and supplier coordination. The UiPath Solution for merchandising combines those models with agentic automation, so AI insight becomes automated execution across digital and physical channels.

  • Product recommendation engines decide what to surface in an online catalog. AI merchandising covers the operational decisions behind the catalog: how much to buy, what to price, when to mark down, when to replenish, and how to execute those decisions across systems. The UiPath Solution for merchandising automates the operational workflow, not the storefront.

  • Agents predict demand, recommend pricing and markdown timing, and execute approved changes across digital and physical channels. Replenishment agents adjust stock flows. Rebuy agents generate purchase orders. Campaign agents launch promotions. Every action runs inside the UiPath AI Trust Layer for transparency, auditability, and compliance.

  • The solution layers on top of the merchandising, planning, and supply chain systems you already run. Agents read forecasts, pricing rules, and stock data from your environment, propose decisions, and execute approved changes back into those systems. No replacement, no rip-and-replace.

  • Merchandisers approve promotion and markdown decisions, review exceptions, and set business rules and guardrails. Agents handle execution and exception routing within those rules. The AI Trust Layer governs every decision with full audit documentation.

  • Predictive models alone surface insight. Agentic automation closes the loop. Agents execute pricing changes across systems, generate purchase orders, manage campaign launches, and monitor outcomes. The result is intelligence turned into action without manual handoffs.

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