Supply Chain & Retail Solutions user guide

The UiPath solution for merchandising supports merchandising decisions by analyzing data, evaluating trade-offs, and highlighting recommended actions or insights.

At a high level, the solution uses available data to assess merchandising scenarios and their potential impact on demand, inventory, and commercial outcomes.

Merchandising relies on data that reflects:

Using the available data, the solution evaluates trade-offs between competing objectives, such as demand uplift, inventory exposure, and commercial performance.

For example, the solution may help teams understand how a planned promotion could affect demand for specific products, whether sufficient inventory is available to support it, or how merchandising actions interact with pricing decisions.

This helps teams assess options before taking action and supports consistent decision-making across merchandising activities.

The primary outputs of the merchandising solution are insights and recommendations that help teams decide where to focus and what actions to consider.

These outputs can include:

Teams review these outputs and determine which actions to take. The solution does not execute changes directly; it supports informed decision-making while allowing organizations to retain control over execution.