Retailers today believe for shelves to be locally relevant, effectively merchandised, and operationally efficient, the need to augment their efforts with AI and have a more rapid and dynamic approach to space and assortment management is critical.

Webinar: Enabling Retail Space Management With AI - Use cases that will transform planogramming and store planning

In this webinar (converted to a podcast) hosted by Category Management Association; IDC’s Jon Duke, Vice President of Research and Retail Insights, and HIVERY's John Showalter, VP of Client Services, discuss the coming merchandising challenges for retailers and CPGs as well as the next generation of software solutions that help solve them. As investment in AI in retail accelerates, and its adoption increases, we are rapidly moving from the future-focused, more-visionary-than-practical approach into a world where next-gen tools deliver practical value.

International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence and advisory services. IDC examines consumer markets by devices, applications, and services for clients.

Jon Duke, IDC's Vice President of Research and Retail Insights, leads the Intelligent Product Merchandising and Marketing Strategies practice and is responsible for delivering IDC Retail Insights’ authoritative perspective on how retailers can leverage technology solutions to achieve key operational, tactical, and strategic objectives across merchandising and marketing functions. Jon provides global, fact-based, retailer-driven research and analysis that IT buyers and merchant users can use to gain an advantage. International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence and advisory services. IDC examines consumer markets by devices, applications, and services for clients.

John Showalter, HIVERY’s VP of Client Services, is a seasoned category management and shopper insights professional with 30+ years of experience. John has held senior roles at Kellogg, Bayer, The Coca-Cola Company, and Red Bull driving business outcomes and capabilities in Category Insights, Shopper Research, and Insights, Space Planning as well as Training and Capabilities. He is a CMA Certified Professional Strategic Advisor and has worked on CMA's Evolution of Category Management in an Omnichannel World project.

Next-gen merchandising solutions to meet the coming challenges of retail with Jon Duke and John Showalter

Melissa Mann, former Procter & Gamble Senior Category Development Account Executive, talks to Milena Salmon from Retail Mavericks about the idea behind store clustering, the challenges category development teams face, and why providing assortment relevance and efficiency is now becoming extremely difficult as more data, merchandising constraints, and category goals grow.

Store clustering and the challenges category development teams face with Melissa Mann

While demand forecast methods today offer directional insight, they are a relatively blunt instrument and not equipped to handle the precision needed to answer strategic questions like What is the value of going store-specific? What is the opportunity to re-optimize the existing clusters strategy? What is the impact of going neutral on Points of distribution (POD)?

What is wrong with today’s demand forecasting methods for merchandising & assortment planning?  

Over the past 18 months, HIVERY has seen impressive growth working with 25 of the top 50 global Consumer Package (CPG) Brands and in over 100 categories. This has attracted new capital with the completion of the Series B round, media attention from recent TechCrunch reports and industry analysts, prompting CB Insights to name HIVERY as one of the top 100 retail tech companies in the world.  To this end, we are super excited to announce the appointments of Emily Yost and Brian Ruhaak as our newest Sales Directors.

Former Numerator & Surgere executives join HIVERY to support customer growth in North America. 

One of the biggest value drivers for retailers is rapidly deciding and delivering store-specific SKU selection, space allocation, and planograms at scale. However, the industry continues to struggle with harnessing diverse datasets and AI-driven analytics to unlock this opportunity.  Register and learn how grocers, amongst other things, can quantify the financial outcome of any assortment decisions and rapidly execute the best merchandising strategy at the store level.

Webinar: Simulating Merchandising Decisions with AI - Deliver Relevant, Store-Specific SKU Selections with Progressive Grocer

With a growing list of SKUs, limited shelf space, different store characteristics, constraints, and current supply chain challenges, Merchants and Category Managers are increasingly under pressure to get assortment and planograms right and deliver them quickly.

HIVERY is working with the top 25 to 50 CPG brands and in over 100 retail categories - all this and in just a few years.  So, it is safe to say we have learned much over the years working with some amazing companies.   This webinar will review the top 5 pain points we always see and how HIVERY Curate's AI offering has solved them in minutes. 

Webinar: Top 5 Pain Points Merchants and Category Managers Face & How to Quickly Solve with Curate AI

Designed for front-line users in sales, marketing, and category management, in this podcast you will learn how Machine Learning (ML) and Operations Research (OR) models are being used to augment traditional tasks from category strategy to planogram creation - all in minutes, not months.

Scott and Zach share some of the best practices on how CPG manufacturers are leveraging next-generation ML and OR models to:

• Simulate where new items will earn distribution in retailers down to the store level;
• Maximize revenue by optimizing your brand portfolio at the store level to create space for new innovation and high performing items;
• Quantify the success of existing brands and new items.

Presented by Scott Anderson, Chief Revenue Officer, and Zach Simpson, Customer Success Director, at HIVERY.

Simulating new item success from innovation to execution at retail shelf with Scott Anderson and Zach Simpson

Hivery, a startup that bills itself as an “optimization platform” for retailers, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Tiger Global, with participation from Blackbird Ventures, AS1 Growth Partners, and OneVentures. 

CEO Jason Hosking told TechCrunch via email that the proceeds will fuel the growth of products designed to help brick-and-mortar businesses make decisions about physical space and product displays... read more.

HIVERY bags new money to automatically optimize product placement on store shelves

Sydney, NSW, Australia— July 15, 2020 — HIVERY, a leader in innovative AI-driven retail assortment strategy simulation & optimization solutions, today announced that the company has received an investment of US$30 million led by Tiger Global, a New York-based investment firm. Existing investors Blackbird Ventures, AS1 Partners, and OneVentures also participated. The Series B round is part of HIVERY’s expansion strategy which looks to accelerate key hires and product development to support customer demand and international expansion beyond the US.

 

HIVERY, a pioneer of AI-driven retail strategy simulation & optimization solutions, announces a US$30M investment led by Tiger Global 

As the Head of People & Culture, Sarah supports the continued growth and development of the Hivery team, integrates structures in place to scale up globally and to support an autonomous, integrated, flexible working environment.

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