Proprietary Automation
Tap into advanced, customized automation tools for efficient data management, planogram development and validation. Our proprietary solutions, refined over years, enhance performance and save you time and money.
SPACE + CATEGORY MANAGEMENT
Transform your space management approach
Meet changing consumer demands with best-in-class space and category management services, powered by extensive retail knowledge and actionable customer insights.
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Services
Advanced solutions designed to win
Today’s empowered consumers expect instant gratification and seamless access to products. Strategic space planning must balance consumer needs with operational efficiencies and localized insights.
Our team optimizes your retail space to drive mutually beneficial efficiencies, enhance the customer experience and maximize your sales potential. We make it easier for customers to find your products by optimizing planograms and store layouts while catering to local preferences based on consumer behavior and in-market trends.
Planogram Development
Accurate POG designs that increase speed to shelf, improve inventory planning and optimize assortment allocation.
Shelving Evaluation
Validation identifies non-compliant POGs and uncovers opportunities for potential sales growth.
Space Analysis
Quickly evaluate space performance across the store by department, aisle category, subcategory, segment and region.
Floor Plan Creation
Tools that ensure accuracy of categories, POG to assortment, brand flows and new item placements that meet retailer requirements.
Project + Surge Support
We seamlessly extend your team’s capacity to meet increased demand or tackle specific projects, offering flexible support when needed.
Custom Reporting
Tools that align with your business objectives and track performance against KPIs over time.
Approach
Propelled by automation, underpinned by expertise
Save time and money with Acosta’s strategic, flexible and automated space management solutions, ensuring fast and accurate shelf placement without the need for costly in-house resources.
Deep Industry Insight
With an average of over 15 years of space management experience, our team becomes an extension of yours, proactively identifying sales opportunities wherever they exist. Combined with cutting-edge tools, we eliminate the need for in-house experts and expensive software.
Best-In-Class Analytics
Harness industry-leading tools and powerful automation to pinpoint actionable opportunities at the national, regional and local levels. Ensure your planograms meet shelving objectives, quickly assess performance across categories and develop custom scorecards to measure against your unique KPIs.
“The shelf is the first point of contact between consumers and products, so getting it right is key. A perfectly optimized shelf drives sales and ensures the product selection matches consumer demand. Using expert strategies and tools, we help our clients design shelf and category plans that maximize sales and ensure the right products are available when shoppers need them."
Space + Category Management FAQs
Discover more about Acosta’s space and category management services with these frequently asked questions.
Why should I choose Acosta over building out or expanding our internal team?
Acosta’s associates are extensively trained in space management principles and advanced software. We invest in complex space planning tools and continually train our team on the latest industry trends, best practices and tools, so you don’t have to. Our customized proprietary automation tools save you time and money, allowing you to focus on growing your business.
We help brands develop growth strategies by identifying popular products, optimizing pricing, and filling any gaps in your offerings across retailers. We also assess products for potential discontinuation to streamline your product mix.
Our scale allows us to flexibly adjust resources based on your budget and objectives. We can build tailored, dedicated teams or simply supplement your team for surge project support, placing talent on-site, in hybrid settings, or remotely.
What automation tools do you use, and how do they save me money?
We utilize industry-leading tools for rapid planogram automation and leverage custom automation solutions for even greater efficiency. Our tools automate the planogram validation process, data management and cleansing, and reporting, reducing human errors and increasing speed. By automating repetitive tasks, we enhance productivity, speed to shelf, inventory planning, resets and assortment allocation.
This automation translates directly into cost savings. For instance, improved planogram accuracy leads to higher inventory productivity and lowers field execution expenses. Our unique approach automates both productivity tasks within the planogram and validation, data management and reporting outside the planogram, using a variety of data sources.
What industry tools and technology does your team use for space and category management?
We utilize leading space management software, including BlueYonder, Symphony, NIQ Opportunity Finder, and 345, alongside our proprietary space analysis and automation tools.
Additionally, our exclusive partnership with Pensa leverages patented AI and computer vision to create highly accurate views of retail shelf conditions, guiding shelf planning and in-store execution.
What sets Acosta apart from other space management partners?
With Acosta, you get strategic consultancy from trusted advisors backed by deep retail knowledge, comprehensive shopper insights and longstanding retailer relationships. As part of Acosta Group, you also gain access to a wide range of commerce-centric services.
