Leafio

Automated decisions for retail planning

Leafio makes software that applies artificial intelligence to the planning work of retailers and of the manufacturers and distributors that supply them. Its platform aims to raise margin and revenue by automating the operational decisions behind inventory, assortment, shelf layout and promotions. The company presents this as a single platform and one decision system, built to help retailers adapt to constant change. Its website is available in English, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese and Turkish.

Inventory optimization

The inventory module generates orders from demand rather than from fixed rules, with the aim of timely replenishment at every level of the supply chain. The capabilities listed include demand forecasting, automatic replenishment, multi-echelon allocation, fresh inventory handling, and analysis of seasonality and trends. The company says its self-regulating algorithms are designed to raise sales, margin and turnover while keeping the assortment in balance. A dashboard and a business intelligence module give planners a view of results.

Assortment and shelf space

Assortment tools let a retailer manage categories and store clusters and follow performance indicators, which saves time on reporting. For shelf efficiency the company offers macro and micro space management, store-specific planograms and automatic planogram generation, covering the full merchandising process from planning to execution control. In one case on its site a specialty grocer used automated planograms to halve the time spent on store planning, according to the company.

Promotions

Promotion management plans, simulates and runs promotions from beginning to end. It produces automatic forecasts and keeps stock in line with demand in each store and for each product. A Promo Assistant explains each forecast and guides the team, with the stated goals of reducing lost sales, cutting write-offs after a promotion and improving return on a campaign.

Mobile app and sectors

The Leafio SuperApp gives mobile access to core data and urgent notifications from across the platform, and can run on its own as retail execution software. Its customers are food and drug retailers, convenience and liquor stores, home improvement chains, health and beauty chains, and sellers of pet and toy products. On the supply side it names consumer goods manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers. The company publishes webinars and case studies about its customers, including one on a demand planner's daily routine after an AI rollout. It also reports outcomes for clients within six months of use, such as a grocery group that centralized inventory management and a fuel retailer that cut overstock, which are the company's own figures.

Multi-echelon allocation and fresh stock

Two parts of the inventory module deserve a closer look. Multi-echelon allocation decides how stock should be distributed across the layers of a supply chain, from central warehouses to individual stores, so that availability stays high without piling up inventory in the wrong place. Fresh inventory handling addresses products with a short shelf life, where over-ordering means waste and under-ordering means empty shelves. Both are intended to work from forecasts that update as sales patterns change.

Leafio is an AI-powered retail automation software company. Its platform automates merchandising, inventory and assortment planning for retailers, and it also serves the manufacturers and distributors that supply them.

What Leafio offers

• Inventory optimisation: demand forecasting, automatic replenishment, multi-echelon allocation and fresh inventory handling.
• Assortment and shelf efficiency: assortment performance tools, shelf efficiency analysis and macro and micro space management.
• Planograms: store-specific planograms, including automatic planogram generation.
• Promotion management: promotion management and promotion intelligence.
• Analytics: dashboards, a BI module, seasonality and trend analysis, and in-depth analytics, with a mobile app.

Who it serves

Retailers in grocery and supermarkets, convenience stores, pharmacies, liquor stores, DIY and building materials, health and beauty, pet stores and toy stores, and suppliers such as CPG manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers.

Key facts

• Mobile app: available, as stated on its website.
• Reported outcomes: the site describes client business outcomes within six months of use.