Improve merchandising decisions and execution through enhanced customer insights, demand forecasting, category management, and store implementation.
The Autonomous Journey: Transforming Demand Planning in CPG and Retail Supply Chains
Do you want to learn how you can add resiliency to your supply chain so you’re not left flat-footed when the next disruption occurs?
Benefits
Forecast a properly stocked future with AWS
AWS can help you understand your particular demand trends and forecast to decrease stockouts, excess inventory, and costs.
Featured solutions
Improving Forecast Accuracy with Machine Learning
Generate accurate forecasts from diverse datasets to predict retail inventory demand, supply-chain planning, workforce status, web traffic forecasting, and more.
Anaplan on AWS
Transform how you see, plan, and run your business. Understand current performance now and predictively forecast what's next for faster, more confident decisions.
PEAK
Optimize products across your distribution centers, fulfill demand by ensuring products are allocated to the right location at the lowest cost.
AWS services
Customer stories
We work with the industry’s leading retail companies - innovators and pioneers - who expect more from their technology partners and know that great experiences speak louder than words. Learn more about the exciting ways retail companies are leading their customer journeys with AWS.
More Retail Ltd. improved forecast accuracy while reducing food waste and out of stocks.
More Retail moved forecasting demand to ordering using automated machine learning approach with Amazon Forecast to decrease food spoilage, out of stocks, excess inventory, and costs.
Euclid helps retailers optimize their stores and merchandising activities.
Euclid analyzes more than 21 million shopping sessions per month to correlate traffic with marketing campaigns and to help retailers optimize hours for peak traffic. Learn how Learn how Euclid collects, processes, and stores up to 30 GB of data per day for over the last three years, while saving 80 to 90 percent using AWS.
Shimamura Music Improves Business with Demand Forecasting and Automated Ordering
To automate its product order operations, Shimamura Music Co., Ltd. migrated its on-premises demand forecasting system to a cloud-based system that could adjust to future changes in the business environment while still providing reliable, high-quality forecasts. A non-engineering team in the logistics department built an in-house demand forecasting and automated ordering system that improves shortage rates and increases business efficiency using Amazon Forecast.
Coca-Cola Argentina Uses AWS to Speed Store Inventory Orders and Product Delivery
As one of the largest Coca-Cola distributors, the company built an app to better serve traditional small neighborhood businesses to order product. Using a wide array of AWS services, Coca-Cola Argentina launched the Wabi app and now retailer customers receive product delivers in 15 minutes.
Baba’s Keeps Its Spices Fresh with Real-Time Data from SAP on AWS
Baba’s integrated and automated in-store product ordering for their retail customers on one platform with SAP on AWS, cutting order processing and delivery times by 50 percent.
From forecasting demand to ordering – An automated machine learning approach with Amazon Forecast to decrease stockouts, excess inventory, and costs
Innovate with key industry partners
Discover purpose-built AWS Partner solutions for Merchandise and Planning on AWS through the AWS Partner Network (APN) Retail Competency and AWS Marketplace.
Anaplan is a market-leading, cloud-native enterprise SaaS company that offers solutions that help retailers see, plan, and run their businesses. Using their proprietary AI/ML technology, Anaplan lets retailers contextualize real-time performance, and forecast future outcomes for faster, confident decisions.
Algonomy is a global leader in algorithmic customer engagement powering digital first strategies for retailers. Algonomy provides a dependable AI-powered cloud data and analytics platform dedicated to driving customer’s success.
Aptos is one of the largest providers of enterprise software focused exclusively on retail. Aptos offers omnichannel solutions to help retail brands effectively adapt to change and create experiences that enhance their unique brand promise.
SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition.
o9 is the premier AI-powered platform for driving digital transformations of integrated planning and operations capabilities.
Peak's AI Decision Intelligence platform brings AI into the core of retail businesses, helping companies optimize processes and power performance across the retail value chain.
AWS Service Partners
Our network of AWS Service Partners offers strategy and deployment services to retail brands to accelerate digital transformation and innovation.
Accenture is a global professional services company that
helps companies by innovating around industry-specific functions and capabilities to provide clients with speed-to-value.
Deloitte retail technology helps to mobilize data and insights to optimize customer experiences, create operational efficiencies, improve product pricing, and inform management decisions.
Infosys is a global leader in consulting, technology, outsourcing and next-generation services that helps customers discover, evaluate, and integrate software, services, and processes that help reimagine the enterprise value chain in the cloud and deliver fast time to value.
Capgemini is a global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation, partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology.
AWS Marketplace
Retail solutions from AWS Partners are also available on AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog of third-party software, services, and data that makes it easy to find, buy, deploy, and manage software on AWS.
Resources
See related guides, brochures, blogs, and much more.
Accelerate and Simplify Time Series Analysis and Forecasting with Amazon Forecast
Analyzing and forecasting time series data with traditional methods is a complex and time consuming process that often struggles to produce accurate results for large sets of irregular data by failing to combine it with other relevant independent variables. In this tech talk, watch an end-to-end demonstration of Amazon Forecast on a time series use case, diving deep into the steps of the process.
Using AI/ML to Transform Your Retail Demand Planning
As retailer continue to adapt to the changing market, they should consider using AI/ML in a transformative way to create unite customer experiences and optimize critical business processes.
Amazon Forecast Developer Guide
This guide provides a conceptual overview of Amazon Forecast. Includes detailed instructions for using the features and provides a complete API reference for developers.
New Amazon Forecast API creates more accurate forecasts and provides explainability
The new forecasting API for Amazon Forecast generates up to 40% more accurate forecasts and helps you understand which factors, such as price, holidays, weather, or item category, are most influencing your forecasts by using a combination of ML algorithms that are best suited for your data.
Easy-to-use third-party data for Consumer-Packed Goods & Retail organizations
Discover, subscribe to, and analyze hundreds of diverse retail data sets with AWS Data Exchange. From a single cloud interface, your organization can consume inventory, sales, demographics, and other retail databases from qualified providers.
Get started
